Quando quando quando
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We're proud of our history not getting involved in petty fights and leaving our population with war trauma like in your case. What most missed was the fact that Sweden managed to leave the country untouched so it was easy to hide people here and we did. There will be none of that soon though when all hell breaks lose. Holland took a hell of a beating mainly due to the fact the population preferred to fight windmills instead but the english bailed you out and last and least came the americans who posed as the ones that did it all when in fact they did nuffink.
I prefer dykes to dikes if you ask me, but you don't but now you know hoe.
I like dykes but where I live it might be practical to rely on dikes too, cause otherwise half of the country is gone. We 're below see level. Something we are very aware of.
We were and still are a very small country and heavy populated, now even so much more.
No way we could defend ourselves alone against the German war machine.
Sweden is a much more bigger country, even bigger than France or England and there were so much more places to hide. One thing you are right about and that is the Dutch government and politics did not want to think about the possibility of a war. And many people didn't too. There was a very bad economic situation, called the Recession, there was poverty, and hunger and everybody turned their eyes the other way.
Even one day before the war started in the Netherlands the prime minister said in a radio speech to the people, there was no reason to have worries about anything and they, the people, should all go to bed and have a nice sleep to get up fresh in the morning and to go to work. Next morning German paratroopers landed at all strategic points.
I don't understand you saying the English and the Americans did nothing.
Their military troops and the Canadians and Polish conquered and freed our country.
As I looked at the history books I noticed Sweden did not have such a good reputation during the war.
They said they were neutral and in a way I understand but all western forces against Hitler had their doubts about that so-called neutrality. They thought of the Swedish regime at the time as more nazi- friendly.
My father fled from the Netherlands as sailor on to a German armed liner. A treading ship. It went to Stockholm and he fled into the Dutch embassy there. He said he wanted to fight. After that he could go to England and to the States.
He told me it was very dangerous to embark on a German armed liner. He could lose his nationality as being seen as working for the enemy. But at that time it was for him the only way to get out.
He said it was very dangerous in Stockholm for any one coming from occupied countries or the enemies of the Germans. To preserve their so-called neutrality people were hunted and handed over to the nazis.
Thank you so much Sweden with your Marxist regime in Gothenburg.