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At Norge ble fritt mai 1945 var vel ett mirakel. Tyskerne hadde 350.000 soldata i Norge. En styrke som var bedre trent og bedre utstyrt enn polititroppene

Hva heter sangen på starten?

My (Japanese-born) Grand-Uncle and his wife (My Great-Aunt- American born, 2nd Gen Japanese) were on the Gripsholm, along with their 3 kids. (I believe the second voyage...I think Sept 1943?) My Grand Uncle, who married into the family, was a business man who started his own produce stores in Los Angeles, and grew to be pretty big. Making as much as $3.5 million at it's height, and expanding into one of the first Supermarkets. Their competitors were Vons and Ralphs. Needless to say, it was all taken from him, and he never recovered it. He went back to Japan, understandably jaded, and never returned to the US. My Grand Aunt and the kids returned eventually. But all that they built up was gone, and they had to rebuild their lives.

A fascinating insight into Swedish signal intelligence during WW2.

What is the song at 30:44?

I wonder how a man born deaf acquired multiple languages and cryptoanalytic skills. Many have difficulty acquiring language outside of sign language. Well done.

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Otroliga och så intressant, tack för denna videon 😊

One of the best documentaries I have ever had the pleasure of watching.

Norske kronprins familien dro fra Sverige til USA via Petsamo

imagine being a american pilot coming for war and harsh training and to get shot down over sweden and crashland there to get met by blond swedish girls and partys..

A magnificent story of heroes on earth. Praying we never see such a war again.

Bahr, btw, was convicted of being a Nazi spy and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

My gramps was a turret gunner and landed in malmo. Was a “pow” haha. For 5 months. I had no idea it was like this in Sweden. Thanks for the great info.

I would have liked more details on how the daily key was derived ?

Beautiful film, a close friend was a ballturret gunner on a B17 completed 30 missions 2 on D Day was severely wounded on his last mission. He passed away a year and a half ago a true hero and a genuine friend. There's a reason they are called the greatest generation.

Very good video on a subject that I expect not many are aware of. Interviews were very sensitively handled.

"morsomt" at svenske grensepoliti sendte norske jøder tilbake til tyskerne

takk sverige..men dere sviktet oss til sluttt

Farfar min korsade gränsen ett flertal gånger. 😊❤️

Vel Norge ble tatt over Tyskland i 15 min fordi de var ikke så særlig bra

Sverige var nøytralt, men ble brukt til forflytting av tropper å var mye tysk innblanding under krigen. I min slekt ble en herremann angivet av en svensk nazisympatør, han ble berget av 2 andre svensker. Sverige bikket veldig på en knivegg under krigen mtp å "skjule/hjelpe" norge. Nazityskland var veldig klar over ka sverige gjorde for nabolandet, noe vi alle nordmenn er takknemlig for til dags dato 🙂

I saw my dad in this documentary. Does anyone remember Frank Soley. Nickname was "Slug". He was very good friends with Donavan Grivetti in the film. My dad was a BTO and Donavan was his Bombardier on the B-17 plane called the Laka' Sacky. I wish there was a way to show a picture of them together.

I love that Kerstin Peterson still have her childhood accent when speaking Swedish <3 :)

Thank you Sweden for all the care and love you gave our men and boys who needed your help and a safe place to land far from home during a time of war. Thank you.

Sweetened bitter coffee. I was born after the war in Los Angeles CA. A close friend who died in 2008 was an RAF pilot who crashed in Norway and then ended up in Sweden. To hear the stories of children left behind but found a way to connect was deeply moving. To remember, To relive, To visit for many their final time was touching. War is our closest to Hell, for those who landed in Sweden it was a garden that could kept them alive and a chance to go home and live. I watched this video on May 31, 2021 our Memorial Day. We honor those who have served and are now passed on. My father died 1999. I still hear his voice from time to time. I can still remember with his voice the stories he related to me and my younger brothers of those days of war for him in Italy. Eventhough Sweden was not directly in the war and some of your men assisted in the war in Finland, in the end you too in Sweden were granted a life worth living paid for by the lives of men in all armies. Their blood, Allied or German paid for our lives up to 2021. Remember and never forget we owe a debt that can never be repaid, pay it forward as they did for the future of our great great grandchildren. An old Hopi American saying: Consider today what would be best so that your 7th generation may benefit from the choice you make today.

My dad escaped to Sweden as a 16 year old shortly after the German occupation of Norway. I had the privilege of listening to many of his stories about this topic, but of course these stories were not completely objective. My dad told me of Swedes who told him that he was a parasite, that for each loaf of bread eaten by the Norwegian refugees, there would be less to eat for Swedish children. I remember asking my dad how they could be so cruel, and he answered that most Swedes were not that way. Most Swedes were sympathetic to the Norwegian cause. I stumbled upon this video, and could not help but think of how much I would have enjoyed watching this with my dad. And ask him some more questions about his time in the Norwegian Police Reserve troops. Great video, nice to see the big picture.

Fun fact: The personal secretary of Harry Søderman was a young woman named ...... Astrid Lindgren!

Truly awesome story. Incromprehensible that the Swedish Government never acknowledged the sacrifices of their own Sons and Daughters ! Real history. Astonishing film clips; especially of the US Prisoners under the Japanese. Terrifying footage ! Thank you

It is shameful the man of the white ships did not receive a thank you from the Swedish government.

He was drafted into the Swedish army--that's like being drafted into the Nevada navy!--neutrals- they watched their neighbor Norway overrun

They were interned for the duration of hostilities. The Swedes played both sides against the middle. Not much to brag about.

Question: what happened with AXIS flyers and soldiers who somehow entered Sweden? What kind of treatment did they receive?

Jag tyckte det var lite illa av sverige att hålla sig neutrala under kriget, men denna film har givit mig en mer positiv syn på vår historia.

As an American of Swedish ancestry, I salute the "old country" for the valuable help they gave to the Allied war effort in the Second World war...Thousands of American airman found internment in Sweden a very comfortable affair and returned home alive and healthy to their homes.

Almost unbelievable. These aircrew won their own personal lotterys. Compare their experiences to the crews shot down over Japan. I suppose German aircrew were treated similarly?

Ro, ro til fiskeskjær Mange fisker får vi der én til far og én til mor én til søster og én til bror jeg hører en skap-nazi ro sin unnskyldning her... haha oldefar kaldte Svensker for "skap-nazister", han var med på tungtvannsaksjonen, han er en Norsk krigshelt. Han har et annet syn på Svensker som ikke blir delt, og det er hvordan FLESTEparten av dem likte Tyskerne på den tiden. Ikke alle, men de aller fleste...

Välkommen till Sverige, Yanks! FÖR DIG KRIGEN ÄR ÖVER! Vänligen njut av ditt krigsfångarläger ... ärr ... viloläger ... ärr ... interneringsläger - där vi har strikta regler: Inte mer än tre välbalanserade måltider per dag serveras! Inget mer dejting MER än fem svenska tjejer åt gången! Inget utegångsförbud vid interneringslägret! Förlåt! Ingen bär US Army Air Force uniform utanför interneringslägret [civila kläder tillhandahålls gratis av Internationella Röda Korset och detta inkluderar kostymer, slipsar och klädskor.] OCH HELT INTE UNDANTAGSFÖRSÖK [inte att någon av er är dum nog att vandra in i nazisterna ockuperade Norge, Danmark eller Finland - eller försök att segla till England]

Welcome to Sweden, Yanks! FOR YOU THE WAR IS OVER! Please enjoy your POW camp...err...rest camp...err...internment camp - where we have strict rules: No MORE than three well balanced meals a day served! No more dating MORE than five Swedish girls at a time! No curfew at the internment camp! Sorry! No wearing U.S. Army Air Force uniform outside the internment camp [civilian clothes provide free by the International Red Cross and this includes suits, ties and dress shoes.] AND ABSOLUTELY NO ESCAPE ATTEMPTS [not that any of you are stupid enough to wander into Nazi occupied Norway, Denmark or Finland - or try to sail to England]

Fan vad vidrigt.

Jag inser allt mera att de har ju de facto deserterat. Så tex internerande polacker tenderade att fly till England, för att fortsätta kriget. Eller också passade de på när de blev utväxlade. Inte alla, men det var vanligt. Men dessa amerikanska flygare stannade gladeligen kvar, och levde gott iom att de fick ju sina löner - antingen från amerikanska ambassaden eller också fickpengar från Sverige.

I live close to Örnahusen on the Baltic coast on the southern tip of Sweden. As you could see in the film, a B-17 bomber went down there and most of the crew perished. Some locals got a propeller out of the water and turned it into a make-shift monument by just sticking it into the ground, and it is still there. Nowadays, there is also a little placquard telling the story behind the flight. I have walked the dog there hundreds of times and reflected on the sheer madness of WW2 and what those young men had to go through. They were so young and so many lost their lives. May it never happen again.

I 2021 føler man seg som en motstandsmann når man handler i Sverige..

Damn so bias! Sweden wasn't neutral, they where kissing the nazi's butt. The Swedish didn't help the Norwegian king anf his family. The Swedish Socialdemokraterna party has allways been against jews and flirting with the nazi.

Hur översötter ni egentligen? Polititroppene betyder inte den svensk norksa truppen. Historierevisionism?

Det viser seg at "nøytraliteten" er det rette for et land. Noe å lære av i dag !

Tack Sverige

Neutral sweden? In my ass! Read about Arne Beurling

I knew of a former USAAF airman who was interned in Sweden. He recounted that he and a group of his fellow internees were taken to a department store in Stockholm where they were instructed to get civilian clothes and a camera. They were told that they were to take photos of themselves and send them to their families to show the folks back home that they were safe and were being treated well in Sweden. To these guys who escaped death and/ or a MUCH tougher incarceration in a German POW camp, it must have seemed like winning the "Golden Ticket of Life". No one should be at all shocked or surprised that as in every war, no matter how terrible, SEX is still the Heavyweight, Unbeaten, Untied, Undefeated Champion of the World. It is what it is...

I am very touched by this film. Thank you for sharing.