I'm curious of what people know of World War 2, beside what's common knowledge. I'm also curious of what actually happened during World War 2, because it's quite interresting to hear what went on beneath the surface of a major war between major countries.
I'll begin by explaining what my country did during World War 2.
Sweden:
We saved more jews than any other country in the entire world.
We were the first on location in Germany when rescuing jews from concentration camps after Nazi-Germany's surrender.
After experience from World War 1, we maintained our trading agreements with both England and Germany, because without either we'd be suffering economically, which we couldn't afford. Cancelling trading agreements with either side would favour the other, which would be in direct conflict with our neutrality.
We used the money gained from trading with both sides to build up our sister-country Norway, also supporting both Denmark and Finland economically after the war.
We helped train Norweigan Resistance Fighters during the German Occupation of Norway, calling them "Swedish Police officers", whilst in reality being the Norweigan Resistance Group.
We sent our best pilots in our most advance fighter aircrafts to Finland during the Continuation War to aid against the Russian Assault. Those aircrafts were painted as Finnish aircrafts since Sweden couldn't enter the war officially.
20,000 Swedes travelled to Finland to help fight the Russians in the Continuation War.
We intercepted German Encrypted Messages being sent across Swedish Territory, and decrypted them for the Allied forces.
Close to 100% of every Swede with any political influence were in near-constant contact with the Germany Authorities to try to release as many Jews as possible. One of the most famous Swedish Heroes of World War 2 is Raul Wallenberg, who went missing in Ukraine and is still missing to this day. There's a strong possibility that he perished in a Russian Prison back in the 70-80's.
Sweden was one of the 5 countries that managed to maintain their Neutrality throughout World War 2, out of the 20 countries that tried.
And I just wanna add before I quit writing, that Sweden has a well established military history, but we decided in 1800 to be Neutral, and not because we're cowards, but because we've done our fair share of fighting in the past, so I'd rather not have people tell anyone what chickens they were for not being an official part of the Allied/Axis forces.
So this thread is not about bashing other Countries in any way, but to learn more of what is one of the Modern Age's most crucial historical events.
-Sewora
I'll begin by explaining what my country did during World War 2.
Sweden:
We saved more jews than any other country in the entire world.
We were the first on location in Germany when rescuing jews from concentration camps after Nazi-Germany's surrender.
After experience from World War 1, we maintained our trading agreements with both England and Germany, because without either we'd be suffering economically, which we couldn't afford. Cancelling trading agreements with either side would favour the other, which would be in direct conflict with our neutrality.
We used the money gained from trading with both sides to build up our sister-country Norway, also supporting both Denmark and Finland economically after the war.
We helped train Norweigan Resistance Fighters during the German Occupation of Norway, calling them "Swedish Police officers", whilst in reality being the Norweigan Resistance Group.
We sent our best pilots in our most advance fighter aircrafts to Finland during the Continuation War to aid against the Russian Assault. Those aircrafts were painted as Finnish aircrafts since Sweden couldn't enter the war officially.
20,000 Swedes travelled to Finland to help fight the Russians in the Continuation War.
We intercepted German Encrypted Messages being sent across Swedish Territory, and decrypted them for the Allied forces.
Close to 100% of every Swede with any political influence were in near-constant contact with the Germany Authorities to try to release as many Jews as possible. One of the most famous Swedish Heroes of World War 2 is Raul Wallenberg, who went missing in Ukraine and is still missing to this day. There's a strong possibility that he perished in a Russian Prison back in the 70-80's.
Sweden was one of the 5 countries that managed to maintain their Neutrality throughout World War 2, out of the 20 countries that tried.
And I just wanna add before I quit writing, that Sweden has a well established military history, but we decided in 1800 to be Neutral, and not because we're cowards, but because we've done our fair share of fighting in the past, so I'd rather not have people tell anyone what chickens they were for not being an official part of the Allied/Axis forces.
So this thread is not about bashing other Countries in any way, but to learn more of what is one of the Modern Age's most crucial historical events.
-Sewora