WWII - NAZI KILLERS IN SWEDEN - a podcast by World of Swedish History

This is world of Swedish Historia. My name is Johan Romin and I am a Swedish journalist based in Stockholm.

Just couple of days ago I ran across a news paper article from 1986 - it was in the research of a coming program about the murder of Olof Palme - and I looked thru all Svenska Dagbladet news papers from 1986.
And i november of that year I read that the Simon Wiesenthal center in Los Angeles had sent a document to the Swedish embassy in Washington, it was a list of Nazi criminals that they said lived in Sweden.

These men had been collaborators to the Nazi regime in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia during world war 2, and they had lived in Sweden from the 1940s or 50s and they had never been investigated or prosecuted even though they had killing Jews during the Holocaust.

In 1986 the government of Sweden had made the list confidential but I contacted our ministry of foreign affairs in order to get the list. And I am still waiting for their answer.

And then I called Efraim Zuroff at the Simon Wiesenthal center, who is living in Jerusalem to get the background on how the Swedish government reacted when they got the list.

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