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372: 220:Åmark writes that "neutrality was not only the official policy of the government during the war, it was also the recommended attitude for Swedish citizens. A Swede should sit down in the boat, and not engage himself or herself in public demonstrations for or against any of the states at war." In order to maintain its neutrality, national newspapers was censored and the government "really tried to suppress information on Nazi German brutality in general and on persecution of Jews and the Holocaust". Nonetheless, there was some sympathy for Nazi war aims and 143: 114:, Swedes largely rejected extremist Nazi policies and brutality. Yet, the combination of interest in racial categorisation and narrow nationalism coupled with a tradition of national self-preoccupation meant that most failed to appreciate the urgency of the pre-war plight of Jewish refugees. Many Swedes were only one generation away from grinding poverty, disease and malnutrition, both urban and rural. Not surprisingly, their first concern was for their own economic welfare. 563: 321:
to their counterparts in other liberal democracies, chose increasingly often to engage in direct efforts to save Jews. Where they had earlier stood indifferent to the plight of some few Jews, they came to understand that their previous response had been inadequate. Crucially, these mostly mid-level officials were supported by their political superiors."
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in 1998. In 2018, the Swedish government announced its intention to build a Holocaust museum intended to "focus on surviving Swedes and collect items, interviews and documents about their experiences". It also announced its intention to establish a "centre" devoted to Wallenberg. Although delayed, it
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notes that "Sweden's government and people responded with a distressing lack of generosity towards those few Jews who needed help and were in a situation where Swedish help - both in the 1930s and early 1940s - might have made a difference". However, he noted that "some Swedish officials, in contrast
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since 1933, their coverage on the escalating persecution of Jews was uneven. Provincial conservative newspapers, in particular, published little on the subject until the Allied liberation of the camps in 1945. In spite of this, the Swedish press began to publish detailed accounts of the extermination
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Sweden introduced controls on immigration for the first time in 1927 and subsequently tightened them further in 1938. This was motivated by "fear of large, uncontrolled streams of refugees", particularly Eastern Europeans and Jews. Around 3,000 Jewish refugees from Germany arrived in Sweden in 1939.
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did not become a mainstream political issue and Swedes were broadly critical of the violence of Nazi policy. In spite of this, the country continued to tighten its immigration laws and admitted few Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. As part of the official policy of neutrality, Sweden maintained
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in June 1941 marked an intensification in Nazi persecution of Jews. Mass killings soon began within occupied territories in the Soviet Union. The decision to begin the rounding up and deportation of Jews from other parts of German-occupied Europe for extermination had been taken by January 1942. In
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Since the 1990s, the issue of praise or blame to attach to the country's response to the Holocaust has become a contentious political subject in Sweden. Substantial public discussion about the degree of Swedish awareness of the Holocaust took place in the aftermath of the publication of the novel
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In the post-war years, the Swedish government placed emphasis on its humanitarian actions to save Jews as a means of deflecting criticism of its economic and political relations with Nazi Germany. Historian Ingrid Lomfors states that this "sowed the seed of the image of Sweden as a 'humanitarian
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Swedish students have been taught that rather than assist "one side" or the other in pursuing their sordid nationalistic goals (and in fact the vast majority of Swedes wished for an Allied victory), their leaders 'fought' for peace - higher, more noble ideals than the ones motivating the
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Wallenberg arrived in July 1944. He was authorised to issue various forms of protective passes to Jews as the legation had already been doing on a small-scale on its own initiative. He ultimately issued several hundred visas and 10,000 protective passes with the aid of the Swedish
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and was initially aimed at the rescue solely of inmates of Danish and Norwegian origin. 15,000 civilians, predominately Norwegian and Danish political prisoners, were evacuated by the Swedish Red Cross before May 1945. However, several hundred Danish Jews interned in the
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which primarily favoured Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Åmark notes that "Germany evidently got what it mostly needed from Sweden" and never seriously considered mounting an invasion. Controversially, the Swedish government also allowed German soldiers on leave
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belligerents. As a result of this interpretation, Swedish memory of the war is suffused with a sometimes rather smug sense of moral superiority, yet crucially, one shadowed by a lingering sense of guilt at not having participated in the struggle against Nazism.
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ties with Nazi Germany throughout the Second World War. Swedish diplomats were aware of the extermination of Jews as early as January 1942 but took no action. In the following months, news of the extermination was reported in detail by Swedish newspapers.
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the same year protested against the admission of a small number of Jewish refugee doctors. However, the official refusal to accept larger numbers of refugees was criticized by a minority of Swedes notably including the newspaper
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writes that "Swedish officials, and in fact much of the newspaper-reading public, had as much or more information about many details of the 'Final Solution' than their counterparts in other neutral or Allied countries".
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ideology associated with Swedish Social Democracy which saw the past only as a source of moral instruction to a forward-looking national project based on social improvement. Levine, an American historian teaching at
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was an early ally of Nazi Germany but, as an independent state, maintained a significant degree of autonomy over its internal affairs including the treatment of its significant Jewish population. However, it was
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remained marginal in academia in Sweden. It was reported in 1999 that only two studies had ever been published on the theme of Sweden and the Holocaust. It has been argued that this reflected the pervasive
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Nordlund, Sven (2002). "'The War is Over - Now You Can Go Home!' Jewish Refugees and the Swedish Labour Market in the Shadow of the Holocaust". In Cesarani, David; Levine, Paul A. (eds.).
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As a society, it remained stratified by class, hobbled by deference, rigid with formality and xenophobic, particularly towards Jews. Although in its anti-Semitism Sweden was firmly in
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Denmark had been invaded by Germany in April 1940 but had subsequently been able to retain a higher degree of internal autonomy than many other parts of German-occupied Europe until
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by German forces in March 1944 once it became known that the Hungarian regime had attempted to open secret negotiations with the Allies and the Germans rapidly implemented plans
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before the practice was finally stopped in August 1943. It was only in November 1944 that Sweden, under significant pressure from the Allies, ceased trading with Nazi Germany.
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by an SS officer in August 1942. He reported the information to the Ministry in the hope that it would publicly condemn the atrocities, although no action was taken. Even so,
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which argued that few Swedes had been aware of the Holocaust before the Swedish press published accounts of the Allied liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
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in September 1943. After receiving approval from the Swedish government, it successfully evacuated 8,000 Danish Jews to Sweden in October and November 1943.
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as a result of Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe. A number of small anti-Semitic political groups and parties operated in the country, including the
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Although Sweden became increasingly conscious of the Holocaust and involved in officially-sanctioned rescue attempts in the later years of the war,
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in 1933 was widely known in Sweden, he stated that Swedish attitudes towards Jews were bound up with Sweden's own traditions and social history:
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inmates in areas still under Nazi control would be collected and transported to Sweden. The initiative originated with the Norwegian diplomat
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for much of his career, authored a number of influential studies on the subject and played an important role in the emergence of
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and there was widespread awareness within the country of its policy of persecution and, from 1942, mass extermination of
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Swedish official attitudes towards the issue began to change in the aftermath of the arrest and deportation of Jews in
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in August 1943. In its aftermath, German plans to detain Denmark's small Jewish population were leaked to the
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in which a high number of antisemitic incidents had recently been reported. It is intended to open in 2022.
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received news about the policy of extermination. In a chance discussion in a train, the Swedish diplomat
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which served to consolidate the self-image of Sweden as a "humanitarian superpower" in post-war Europe.
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with the particular aim of securing its own food supplies. German forces invaded and occupied
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did succeed in smuggling some Jewish refugees across the border into Sweden in the so-called
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in June 1944. It was funded and co-ordinated by the WRB rather than the Swedish government.
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since 1814 and was governed by a coalition of all the major parties. After the outbreak of
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It was widely seen as inevitable that the Allies would win the war by early 1945.
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Levine 245: 242: 222:anti-communism 206:a trade policy 178:United Kingdom 158:Main article: 139: 136: 79: 76: 74: 71: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 2978: 2967: 2964: 2962: 2959: 2957: 2954: 2952: 2949: 2948: 2946: 2922: 2918: 2916: 2913: 2911: 2908: 2906: 2903: 2901: 2898: 2896: 2893: 2891: 2888: 2886: 2883: 2881: 2878: 2874: 2871: 2870: 2869: 2866: 2864: 2861: 2859: 2856: 2854: 2851: 2850: 2848: 2844: 2836: 2833: 2832: 2831: 2828: 2824: 2821: 2820: 2819: 2816: 2814: 2811: 2809: 2806: 2804: 2801: 2799: 2796: 2792: 2789: 2787: 2784: 2782: 2779: 2778: 2777: 2774: 2772: 2769: 2768: 2766: 2764: 2760: 2754: 2748: 2746: 2743: 2741: 2738: 2734: 2731: 2730: 2729: 2726: 2724: 2721: 2719: 2716: 2714: 2711: 2709: 2706: 2704: 2703:Nazi eugenics 2701: 2699: 2696: 2695: 2693: 2689: 2685: 2677: 2674: 2671: 2670: 2666: 2662: 2648: 2645: 2643: 2640: 2638: 2635: 2633: 2632:Topf and Sons 2630: 2628: 2625: 2623: 2620: 2618: 2615: 2613: 2610: 2608: 2605: 2604: 2602: 2600: 2599:Collaborators 2596: 2590: 2587: 2585: 2582: 2580: 2579: 2575: 2574: 2572: 2568: 2562: 2559: 2557: 2554: 2551: 2548: 2545: 2542: 2538: 2537:Referat IV B4 2535: 2534: 2533: (RSHA) 2532: 2529: 2527: 2525: 2524:Schutzstaffel 2521: 2519: 2516: 2515: 2513: 2511:Organizations 2509: 2503: 2500: 2499: 2496: 2492: 2487: 2483: 2469: 2466: 2464: 2461: 2459: 2456: 2454: 2453:Romani people 2451: 2449: 2446: 2444: 2441: 2439: 2436: 2434: 2431: 2430: 2428: 2426: 2422: 2412: 2409: 2407: 2406:Working Group 2404: 2402: 2399: 2397: 2394: 2392: 2391:Kastner train 2389: 2387: 2384: 2382: 2379: 2378: 2376: 2374: 2370: 2362: 2359: 2357: 2354: 2352: 2349: 2348: 2347: 2344: 2340: 2337: 2336: 2335: 2332: 2331: 2329: 2327: 2323: 2317: 2314: 2312: 2309: 2307: 2304: 2302: 2299: 2297: 2294: 2292: 2289: 2287: 2284: 2282: 2279: 2277: 2274: 2272: 2271: 2267: 2266: 2264: 2260: 2254: 2251: 2249: 2246: 2244: 2241: 2240: 2238: 2235: 2230: 2222: 2219: 2218: 2217: 2214: 2210: 2207: 2205: 2202: 2201: 2200: 2197: 2195: 2192: 2190: 2187: 2185: 2182: 2180: 2179: 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Index

Sweden
neutral state
World War II
the Holocaust
German-occupied Europe
Nazi Germany
Jews
antisemitism
German-occupied Norway
German-occupied Denmark
Hungary
Jewish population in Sweden
World War I
National Socialist Workers' Party
Nazi Party
Germany
the mainstream European tradition
University of Uppsala
Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning
Natanael Beskow

German-occupied Europe
Sweden during World War II
neutral state
World War II
Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
Norway
Denmark
Finland

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