Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winging its way across the dark Skagerrak, the big Swedish airliner Gripen was nearing home shores on its run from Aberdeen to Stockholm...
...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
Swedish Correspondent Arvid Fredborg, who emerged last May after two years in Germany, testified to the quality of the 1943 Wehrmacht in his book published in Stockholm last week. His conclusion: The German Army represents a powerful fighting force; while its spirit has grown worse, its discipline is undiminished...
...According to Stockholm, broke through the German defenses on the Velikie Luki front and sent a "Latvian Army of Liberation" toward the Latvian border, some 70 mi. away...
...Stockholm reports had the Wilmersdorf residential district completely flattened, the Charlottenburg shopping area knocked beyond recognition, its main shopping streets-Tauenzien Strasse, Joachimstaler Strasse and half the Kurfürstendamm-wiped out. Hit again was the Zoo railway station. Destruction to Tempelhof Air Field, said Stockholm, caused suspension of all traffic. Observers who studied smoke-hazed air reconnaissance pictures, which partially confirmed the Stockholm stories, said damage was as thorough as anything they had seen in Warsaw or Rotterdam...