As all of you know, we are wrapping up our first Book Club tomorrow, Thursday, October 8th. During this Book Club, we have spent a great deal of time building our knowledge on topics related to World War 2. One of the mysteries to which we introduced in our Book Club meeting today was why Germany chose not to take over Sweden during the war.
In their pursuit of world domination, Nazi Germany, as it was called at the time, was interested in controlling the entire free world, yet they chose to leave certain countries out...
One of those countries, that we have learned was a refuge for Jewish Danes, was Sweden. The Nazis knew that Jews were escaping to these countries, and Uncle Henrik says in Number the Stars, "...For reasons of their own, the Nazis want Sweden to remain free. It is very complicated." (page 126)
So the question is..."Why did the Germans NOT conquer Sweden during World War 2?"
Mr. H.
The reason why Germany didn't conquer Sweden is because Germany did not have anything against Sweden. Sure they were a free country which you would expect Germany to take over but Sweden had a larger army, more weapons, and explosives. How Germany took over poland cause they had something against them but Sweden had nothing against Germany.
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