Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reconnaissance photos made after the raids on Rostock and Lübeck indicate that this is at least partially the case. They show enormous destruction. Travelers on an airliner from London to Stockholm reported they had seen the red glare of Rostock's flames for 250 miles across the Baltic...
...Paul Schmidt of the German Foreign Office was most cordial to the Stockholm newspapermen. He had enjoyed his usual hearty lunch and washed it down with perhaps a little too much good Swedish beer. He beckoned the newsmen close. Because of the "advanced stage" of Swedish-German relations and the "various rumors" that Germany was going to invade Sweden, Herr Schmidt was going to release a secret...
Adolf Hitler was so busy in Russia last week that he sent his regrets to the Munich celebration of the Nazi Party's 22nd anniversary. At the same time he offered the opinion that the world's troubles had been caused by Jews. From Stockholm, New York Times Correspondent George Axelsson telephoned that Hitler had said he would not return to Germany until Russia was conquered...
Norway's six other Lutheran bishops followed his lead and resigned in a body, stating that they could not carry on their work "while the Quisling Government continued to cooperate with the enemy." Stockholm heard rumors that Bishop Berggrav, suspended by the Government, had been thrown into the Grini concentration camp near Oslo...
...major Russian drive. It would depend on the British. Apparently the Germans fear such a move. There have been rumors that Hitler would invade Sweden soon-as a counter-counter pincer on the expected counter-pincer on his pincer. Last week, with no ostensible reason for doing so, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times went out of his way to suggest the possibility by denying it: "Swedish and neutral observers here believe that the Germans are sufficiently occupied in Russia not to want to tackle the Swedish Army...