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...wartime bombing of Hamburg, when raging fires in the city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
...trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British consulate in Göteborg, Sweden, to learn that their fellow escapee had arrived by way of Danzig a full week earlier...
Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...
...Sweden's Göteborg harbor last week 4,323 British and 17 U.S. prisoners of war, wounded beyond military usefulness, boarded transports, tasted white bread, coughed over once familiar cigarets. They were a part of the first successful prisoner exchange with the Reich; the stories they brought out were the first such accounts from inside Germany. Some of the Stories...
...When the repatriates left their camps for Göteborg, 900 Canadians in a Stalag at Lamsdorf near Breslau still wore the chains with which they were shackled soon after Dieppe. One Canadian R.A.F. private said: "When the Nazis started to handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used...