Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that someone had tampered with the buoys the Germans had set out the day before made no difference; future trespassers would get the same treatment. Then the German radio told the world that the Swedes were showing an unneutral attitude, behaving like enemies. The same day, at Stockholm Stadium, thousands of Swedes cheered a Danish team, roared out Denmark's anthem...
...Bryansk falls, the Red Army can turn northwest toward Smolensk, the nerve center of the German defense sys tem on the central front. In the Nazi-owned Stockholm Dagsposten a Berlin correspondent reported: If the German Army is unable to hold the Russian advance, Germany will collapse. Not only Red soldiers but the Nazis were beginning to see the maiden's light...
Died. Dr. Gerard de Geer, 84, University of Stockholm's famed geochronologist; in Stockholm. By measurements of soil cross-sections, Baron de Geer established a climatic calendar that reached back 16,000 years...
Born. To Prince Gustaf Adolph, 37, grandson of Sweden's King, and Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 35: their fourth daughter, fourth disappointment to a prince-desiring nation; in Stockholm. Only males succeed to the Swedish crown...
...Wrote the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter's Berlin correspondent: "Nobody could deny that it is the biggest shock of this war for the Germans...