Word: svenska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arvid Fredborg is a young Swedish journalist who represented Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet in Berlin from February 1941, to the end of May 1943. Behind the Steel Wall was written from private notes just after the author had quit the Third Reich following a series of discreet warnings from his friends. His book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into...
...Svenska Gallup Institutet (Sweden's Gallup Poll) quizzed Swedish radio listeners, found that: 34% believed what they heard in British news broadcasts; 4%, German; 1%, Russian. A cautious 18% believed none. The rest expressed no opinion...
...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...