swedish racism
Nazi Connection
The following book tells us about Sweden's crucial role in supplying Nazi Germany iron ore and military facilities. Especially notorious for their support to the Nazis were the Wallenberg family, SEB bank and SKF factory. The Swedish government was responsible for the most iron ore the Nazis received. Kiruna-Gällivare ore fields in Northern Sweden were all important to Nazi Germany.
These massive deliveries of iron ore and military facilities from Sweden to Nazi Germany lengthened World War II. Casualties of the war have been estimated at 20 million killed in Europe. How many of them died due to Sweden's material support to Nazi Germany, is not known.
Gerard Aalders and Cees Wiebes The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden.
The University of Michigan Press. 208 pp. 1996
Fritz, Martin. Swedish iron ore and German steel, 1939-1940. Scandinavian Economic History Review 21, no.2: 133-144. 1985.
Firms located in 'neutral' Sweden supported the Nazis' financial and industrial leadership. The case of Enskilda, a bank owned by the still powerful Wallenberg family, proved to be particularly interesting. Among other things, Enskilda acted as a cloak for the Nazi regime and helped important German corporations like Bosch, IG Farben and Krupp to hide their foreign subsidiaries in order to avoid confiscation by the Allied governments.
Resume in German:
Aalders, Gerard & Berger, Susanne Der Kalte Krieg als Rettung.
Schwedens Nazi-Gold - Neue Einsichten in die Geschäftsbeziehungen der Familie Wallenberg zu Deutschland, 13 (1998) 1, S. 183-188 (Bericht aus dem Ausland)
Gerard Aalders und Susanne Berger befassen sich mit den Transaktionen der schwedischen Familie Wallenberg - nicht allein Schweizer machten lukrative Geschäfte mit dem »Dritten Reich«, auch andere profitierten vom deutschen Eroberungs- und Vernichtungskrieg.
In the book Stockholms Enskilda Bank and the Bosch Group, 1939-1950, the relations between the Bosch Group and the Stockholms Enskilda Bank (SEB) have been examined in connection with the economic role of neutral countries and Germany during World War II. The Swedish SEB purchased Bosch Group companies outside Germany during 1939-1940, creating an association with Nazi Germany which colored SEB's international reputation during the post-war years.
The Boston Globe published Walter V. Robinson's article Sweden Probes a Dark Secret (July 6, 1997).
But a darker chapter is being written now about the Wallenberg family and its extensive business empire, as Sweden confronts dismaying new evidence that the country's wartime collaboration was more extensive than is widely known, and that the Wallenberg family profited from secret dealings with the Nazis. For instance, documents from World War II contain evidence that Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, Raoul's cousins, used their Enskilda Bank to help the Nazis dispose of assets seized from Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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Swedish Racism
One of the eyeopening books dealing with Swedish racism is Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans" written by Aira Kemiläinen. The nature of this racism is xenophobia towards other peoples such as Finns, Saami and Baltic peoples and even distant Asians (often called Mongols by the Swedish racialists, referring to Asians).
Kemiläinen, Aira. Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1998. 320 pp., ill.
The founder of the organized Swedish racism was A.O. Freudenthal in the 19th century. Organized racialists awarded in the 20th century a medal named after Freudenthal. Here is a list of the Freudenthal medalists.
The Time published on September 22, 1997 James Walsh's article Unnatural Selection.
Yet the eugenics program that authorized sterilizations of 'social undesirables', begun in 1935, continued long after the war, persisting until an agency that called itself chillingly the National Institute for Racial Hygiene died a quiet death in 1976. In postwar decades when Social Democratic Sweden considered itself a citadel of enlightenment and tolerance, the country was silently pursuing principles of racial purity long since discredited in most of the world. During those 41 years, some 60,000 Swedes were sterilized as misfits who did not meet the ideal of the blond, blue-eyed, intelligent Scandinavian.
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Genocide suggested by Nesselius
Swedish professor I. Nesselius suggested in 1708 - 1711 a genocide of the Finns. According to Nesselius' plan the Finns would have been replaced by the Swedes everywhere in Finland, except in Lapland. There 3 per cent of the Finns were to be left as a historical relic. Th
The following book tells us about Sweden's crucial role in supplying Nazi Germany iron ore and military facilities. Especially notorious for their support to the Nazis were the Wallenberg family, SEB bank and SKF factory. The Swedish government was responsible for the most iron ore the Nazis received. Kiruna-Gällivare ore fields in Northern Sweden were all important to Nazi Germany.
These massive deliveries of iron ore and military facilities from Sweden to Nazi Germany lengthened World War II. Casualties of the war have been estimated at 20 million killed in Europe. How many of them died due to Sweden's material support to Nazi Germany, is not known.
Gerard Aalders and Cees Wiebes The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden.
The University of Michigan Press. 208 pp. 1996
Fritz, Martin. Swedish iron ore and German steel, 1939-1940. Scandinavian Economic History Review 21, no.2: 133-144. 1985.
Firms located in 'neutral' Sweden supported the Nazis' financial and industrial leadership. The case of Enskilda, a bank owned by the still powerful Wallenberg family, proved to be particularly interesting. Among other things, Enskilda acted as a cloak for the Nazi regime and helped important German corporations like Bosch, IG Farben and Krupp to hide their foreign subsidiaries in order to avoid confiscation by the Allied governments.
Resume in German:
Aalders, Gerard & Berger, Susanne Der Kalte Krieg als Rettung.
Schwedens Nazi-Gold - Neue Einsichten in die Geschäftsbeziehungen der Familie Wallenberg zu Deutschland, 13 (1998) 1, S. 183-188 (Bericht aus dem Ausland)
Gerard Aalders und Susanne Berger befassen sich mit den Transaktionen der schwedischen Familie Wallenberg - nicht allein Schweizer machten lukrative Geschäfte mit dem »Dritten Reich«, auch andere profitierten vom deutschen Eroberungs- und Vernichtungskrieg.
In the book Stockholms Enskilda Bank and the Bosch Group, 1939-1950, the relations between the Bosch Group and the Stockholms Enskilda Bank (SEB) have been examined in connection with the economic role of neutral countries and Germany during World War II. The Swedish SEB purchased Bosch Group companies outside Germany during 1939-1940, creating an association with Nazi Germany which colored SEB's international reputation during the post-war years.
The Boston Globe published Walter V. Robinson's article Sweden Probes a Dark Secret (July 6, 1997).
But a darker chapter is being written now about the Wallenberg family and its extensive business empire, as Sweden confronts dismaying new evidence that the country's wartime collaboration was more extensive than is widely known, and that the Wallenberg family profited from secret dealings with the Nazis. For instance, documents from World War II contain evidence that Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg, Raoul's cousins, used their Enskilda Bank to help the Nazis dispose of assets seized from Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust.
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Swedish Racism
One of the eyeopening books dealing with Swedish racism is Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans" written by Aira Kemiläinen. The nature of this racism is xenophobia towards other peoples such as Finns, Saami and Baltic peoples and even distant Asians (often called Mongols by the Swedish racialists, referring to Asians).
Kemiläinen, Aira. Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society, 1998. 320 pp., ill.
The founder of the organized Swedish racism was A.O. Freudenthal in the 19th century. Organized racialists awarded in the 20th century a medal named after Freudenthal. Here is a list of the Freudenthal medalists.
The Time published on September 22, 1997 James Walsh's article Unnatural Selection.
Yet the eugenics program that authorized sterilizations of 'social undesirables', begun in 1935, continued long after the war, persisting until an agency that called itself chillingly the National Institute for Racial Hygiene died a quiet death in 1976. In postwar decades when Social Democratic Sweden considered itself a citadel of enlightenment and tolerance, the country was silently pursuing principles of racial purity long since discredited in most of the world. During those 41 years, some 60,000 Swedes were sterilized as misfits who did not meet the ideal of the blond, blue-eyed, intelligent Scandinavian.
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Genocide suggested by Nesselius
Swedish professor I. Nesselius suggested in 1708 - 1711 a genocide of the Finns. According to Nesselius' plan the Finns would have been replaced by the Swedes everywhere in Finland, except in Lapland. There 3 per cent of the Finns were to be left as a historical relic. Th