Sverige och kriget — Season 1, Episode 1: Episode 1 The outbreak
Documentary, War & Politics • 60 min • 1 season, 5 episodes • ★ 5.0/10
Episode synopsis
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 authorities begin to hunt down and internecine Swedish communists.
About Sverige och kriget
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.