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...Svenska National-Socialistika Parti (Nazi Party) existed in Sweden as far back as 1930, with a leader named Birger Furugärd and a slogan of "Sweden, Awake!" Later it merged with the larger National Socialist Workers Party founded in 1933 by Sven Olaf Lindholm, who likes to be called Sweden's Hitler. In the 1936 elections the combined parties polled 1.6% of the vote for the Riksdag. They have never won a Riksdag seat...
...latest reports Sweden's Hitler, Sven Lindholm, was going about his regular business as a 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...
...Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden...
Since the Allies did not want peace, Sweden's best bet was to get Germany interested. As her salesman she picked 75-year-old Sven Anders Hedin, explorer, adventurer, surveyor, mapmaker, Orientalist -but no professional diplomat. Happening to be in Berlin to thank Adolf Hitler for a decoration from the German Government, he called on and had a two-hour talk with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...Sven Hedin had an attractive piece of goods to sell. Germany had everything to gain by peace: removal of the threat of a Northern Front, perhaps more help from a peaceful Russia, a resultant strengthening of prestige and power not only in the North as a peace broker, but in the Balkans, where the Allies are titular protectors as they were supposed to be in Scandinavia...