Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona and Stockholm could do an invader much damage and hold up his attack. Eventually the Allies might be able to send aid through Narvik and Trondheim...
...Rudolf Hess visited Stockholm, ostensibly to enroll support for Hitler's war plans against Russia. For several years Hermann Göring was a regular guest at Castle Rockelstad for Nazi powwows with his first wife's brother, Count Eric von Rosen. In 1936 Swedish police arrested eleven Nazi agitators, ousted three. In retaliation Germany kicked three Swedish businessmen out of Germany...
Since the war began spying has multiplied. Last month Stockholm police arrested four German-born Swedish citizens for forwarding information about Narvik iron shipments to Germany. Three of them were sentenced to hard labor...
...sergeant in the Army. A sporty-looking character who somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring in Sweden. More than once he has stood for an hour straight-arming before the Stockholm statue of the great Gustavus Adolf us (who overran Germany in 1630-32) while comrades paraded behind him. Once he was asked at a public meeting what he would do if Germany invaded. "I will not be provoked," said Sergeant Lindholm...
...Torsten Kreuger, brother of the late gross match king, owns two important Stockholm dailies, Aftonbladet and Tidningen. Torsten Kreuger hates all those who helped to strip him of Ivar's properties, believes the House of Morgan is a hive of Jewry, means to get even...