By Soly Erlandsson
Involvement in Amnesty.
“Why can we never stop worrying about Nazism?” That question begins Birgitta Almgren’s highly readable book about Sweden and Nazi Germany: The Dream of North. Nazi infiltration 1933–1945 (Carlssons, 2005). Her question is justified and relevant to me, since Nazi Germany’s crimes against the Jews of Europe have never left me unmoved, despite the years that have passed. On my bookshelf are rows of books about the Second World War, about Hitler’s grandiose ideas of a thousand-year empire, about how people were considered inferior and did not belong to the Aryan race, were forcibly transferred to concentration and labour camps in Germany and occupied Austria, France and Poland. Despite reading detailed, expert and deeply shocking accounts of Nazi Germany, and the unforgivably cruel treatment of European Jews, I have never been able to fully understand how this could continue – in full view, in front of an open curtain – for so many years.
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