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With Sweden being neutral during the war they were afforded certain rights and privileges. Among these, it allow various personns a safe-aven during the war. They could, if permitted, leave Germany and reside in Sweden.
Also it allowed Swedish persons to act as "Third Party" investigators into the cases of such persons who were being reressed by the Germans. I am thinking of the case of Raoul Wallenburg, who managed to intervene into the cases of thousands of Jews during the war, and was "disappeared" for his efforts.
Then there was my Grandfather's case. In 1941 he, along with his whole family, left Stockholm. traveled across Russia and the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, across the USA to New York. There he acted as the authorised factor/agent for a Swedish Shipping Line and as my father relates, practicaly ran the line durig the war.
With a neutral Sweden these 30 or so ships were able to ply the seas, which freed allied ships to carry war cargos.
Another factor, a neutral Sweden afforded OSS agents acting in Norway a safe haven in their times of need. |