Sverige och kriget
Sverige och kriget
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Sverige och kriget

5.0 / 10
2025
1 season
5 episodes
DocumentaryWar & Politics

In 2025 it will be 80 years since the end of World War II. What was it like to live in Sweden during the war? How were people affected by everything that happened so close to home? SVT has asked the Swedish people to send in their memories: letters, films, photographs and diaries and several thousand responses were received from all over the country.

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Sverige och kriget | Bakomfilm | SVT

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  • Episode 1 The outbreak

    1.Episode 1 The outbreak

    5.0
    11-05-202560m

    Sweden is unprepared when Germany attacks Poland on September 1, 1939. Two months later, the Soviets drop bombs on Helsinki. Swedish volunteers go to the Finnish Winter War and our...

  • Episode 2 Surrounded

    2.Episode 2 Surrounded

    5.0
    18-05-202558m

    On April 9, 1940, the Swedish people wake up to the news that Denmark and Norway have been occupied by Nazi Germany. We are neighbors with evil. Our troops are positioned in the no...

  • Episode 3 The Children of War

    3.Episode 3 The Children of War

    5.0
    25-05-202558m

    The war is entering its third year. Finland is now also on the side of the Nazi regime against the Soviet Union, in what is called the Continuation War, and tens of thousands of Fi...

  • Episode 4 The Turning Point

    4.Episode 4 The Turning Point

    5.0
    01-06-202558m

    Things are starting to go badly for Germany in the war and the Allies are putting pressure on Sweden. Are we going to continue to allow the German transit trains? Are we going to o...

  • Episode 5 Peace

    5.Episode 5 Peace

    5.0
    08-06-202558m

    It is the summer when the transit trains stop rolling through Sweden. When we can no longer turn a blind eye to the extermination camps. Germany is losing on front after front, but...

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