Sweden during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:02:39 1 Background
00:02:48 1.1 Political
00:06:22 1.2 Military
00:08:33 1.3 Pre-war trade
00:09:11 1.4 Military balance
00:10:27 1.5 Pre-war preparations
00:13:30 2 War
00:14:44 2.1 Foreign trade
00:17:37 2.2 Winter War
00:17:46 2.2.1 Impact on domestic politics
00:18:41 2.2.2 Defense of Finland
00:20:58 2.2.3 Possible Allied invasion
00:25:06 2.3 Occupation of Denmark and Norway
00:29:02 2.4 Midsummer Crisis
00:30:08 2.5 1943 onwards
00:31:46 2.6 Training of Norwegian and Danish troops
00:33:24 2.7 The Bäckebo rocket
00:35:57 3 Humanitarian effort
00:38:43 4 Press freedom
00:41:18 5 Concessions
00:41:28 5.1 To Nazi Germany
00:44:57 5.2 To the Allies
00:47:42 6 Aftermath
00:48:25 6.1 Forced refoulement to the Soviet Union
00:49:21 7 See also
00:49:43 8 Sources



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Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during World War II. When the war began on September 1, 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear. But by a combination of its geopolitical location in the Scandinavian Peninsula, successful realpolitik manoeuvring during an unpredictable course of events, and a dedicated military build-up after 1942, Sweden succeeded in keeping its official neutrality status throughout the war.
At the outbreak of hostilities, Sweden had held a neutral stance in international relations for more than a century, since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. Twenty nations held a policy of neutrality in September 1939, but only eight other European nations found themselves capable, like Sweden, of officially maintaining this stance throughout the entire war; these were Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Vatican City, San Marino and Switzerland. The Swedish Government made a few concessions, and sometimes breached the nation's neutrality in favor of both Germany and the Western Allies.
During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Sweden allowed the Wehrmacht to use Swedish railways to transport (June–July 1941) the German 163rd Infantry Division along with howitzers, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons and associated ammunition from Norway to Finland. German soldiers traveling on leave between Norway and Germany were allowed passage through Sweden—the so-called permittenttrafik. Iron ore was sold to Germany throughout the war. And for the Allies, Sweden shared military intelligence and helped to train soldiers made up of refugees from Denmark and Norway, to be used in the liberation of their home countries. It also allowed the Allies to use Swedish airbases between 1944 and 1945.
Sweden also became a refuge for anti-fascist and Jewish refugees from all over the region. In 1943, following an order to deport all of Denmark's Jewish population to concentration camps, nearly all of Denmark's 8,000 Jews were brought to safety in Sweden. Sweden also became a refuge for Norwegian Jews who fled from German occupied Norway.