Sverige och kriget — Season 1, Episode 5: Episode 5 Peace
Documentary, War & Politics • 58 min • 1 season, 5 episodes • ★ 5.0/10
Episode synopsis
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 the deportations of Europe's Jews continue. Tens of thousands of people come from Finland with their livestock as the Nazis retreat and burn villages and houses
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.