Re: Asimov Site

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Paul Schlyter <pausch@saafNOSPAM.se> wrote
> >
> > There are other things on a par with being an aggressor nation. My
relatives
> > in Norway consider Swedes to be Nazi collaborators...
>
> Perhaps you should remind your Norweigan relatives that Sweden gave
> refugee away from the Nazi's to many Norweigans during the war.  If
> we really had been Nazi collaborators, like e.g. Mussolini's Italy or
> Franco's Spain, this could not have happened.
>
> However, your friends are partially right: we did let German tropps
> through to Norway during the war.  That's nothing to be proud of, of
> course: we did it out of fear, to try to keep Sweden out of the war,
> and we stopped doing it several years before the war ended.  If you
> like, you could call us cowards.  But it was not an act of agression.
>

OK, opportunistic cowards. I wasn't aware that Sweden allowed Nazis to pass
through on their way to Norway, but I did know Sweden was happy to do
business with the Nazi war machine.
Mainly, I just wanted to put you Swedes on the defensive. You tend to be
holier-than-thou, I just wanted to remind you of that skeleton in your
closet.
-Paul