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My grandmother was born during the blitz. My great-grandfather fought in both world wars to protect Europe against oppression. Sweden sold steel to the Germans and allowed them passage to Norway. Don’t use your countries actions in the Second World War to defend anything other than its passivity, a passivity that extended the war.
I imagine much in the same way the rest of the continent has handled it.
First of all, you often speak of Sweden as "we" or "us" but now it's suddenly "you" and "your"?
Then you dishonestly contrast 2 private persons with the actions of a country, just to make Sweden look bad. Well, I have just one word for you: Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain. I bet you're mighty proud of his actions during the WW2 conflict.
You're obviously a very dishonest person. And exceptionally rude too, joining a Swedish discussion forum just to bash the Swedes. I bet your grandmother and great-grandfather are weeping in their graves. Is that the kind of freedom they fought and suffered for? Shame om you!
You're so ignorant you obviously haven't even heard of
Raoul Wallenberg.
About Raoul Wallenberg
Saved Thousands During The Second World War
Raoul Wallenberg was a man of outstanding individual courage, humanity and decisiveness. By the end of the Second World war, the young architect and businessman Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of tens and thousands Hungarian Jews. Some estimates suggest that he saved as many as 100 000.
From the moment he arrived Budapest in July 1944 as Secretary to the Swedish Legation, he became an unusually successful diplomat. He is said to have had a strong effect on his opponents; particularly able as negotiator with a natural authority that made people listen. He also had a remarkable linguistic talent.
Raoul Wallenberg made tireless negotiation efforts and actions of various neutral diplomatic missions. The Papal Nunciature and the International and Swedish Red Cross saved as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi persecution. It is well-known that it is thanks to Wallenberg leading the negotiations directly with Adolf Eichmann and the Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross, that made this possible.
Handing out ‘Schutzpass’
Among other measures Wallenberg took to save people’s lives – and one of the first things he did – was to hand out protective passports, ‘Schutzpass’, and set up safe houses for Jews. The blue passports with the three yellow cronors symbolising the Swedish State, were provisional passports giving Jews the status of Swedish citizens.
Thanks to these passports, at least some Jews could escape the fate of being brought to different labour camps, mainly at the Austrian border, by trains or in “death-marches”. 450,000 were deported in Hungary, and all of them perished.