[ad_1]
Given how tense the situation in the world remains where Turkey threatens Greece with a war for energy-rich discoveries in the Mediterranean, China and the US (and other countries) meet their forces in the China Sea. South, where North Korea continues to defy the outside world and where it war in Yemen, there is reason to remember the horrors of a war.
Although our country never He was involved in some battles during World War II, the years 1939 to 1945 were also unstable for neutral Sweden. Because what happened in our neighboring countries also affected us and some of these traces still remain.
Author Lars Gyllenhaal has researched the history of Swedish World War II in several books. And unlike many others, Gyllenhaal has gone out of his way to lead readers to places and people that reflect this. His new book “200 Swedish World War II Sights” is entirely in this spirit where archival research and interviews with people result in very concrete and exciting historical insights.
Thanks to Gyllenhaal’s work readers get a piece of history that becomes concrete and engaging.
I myself remember the Arboga robot museum that I once visited, at a time when Europavägen was still roaming the city, and the gloomy monument on top of Kinnekulle, which tells of eleven Norwegian volunteers who lost their lives on the way to a greater military training in Great Britain.
The book is full of stories and many images. One of the longest is on the Bäckebotorpedo, that is, the German V-2 rocket that went off course and hit the forest outside Knivingaryd in Småland (but not far from Bäckebo) in June 1944. The parts were transported to Stockholm where they were examined. and it was drawn up to be sent to the British together with a report. All in the greatest secrecy so as not to attract the attention of the Germans.
Today a model of the bomb rises lined up in the woods and anyone who looks carefully may be lucky enough to find shards of metal from the accident.
There is no doubt that Sweden, despite being on the fringes of the battles of World War II, has many memories of the war years. Mostly in the form of several aeronautical museums and many memorials
The author himself thinks that the so-called Hitler stones at Oskarshamn are the most exciting. And it is not without being tickled. The heavy granite cubes were once quarried around Oskarshamn to be delivered to Germany, and Adolf Hitler’s dream city, Germany, which was to become the capital of what was supposed to be Nazi Germany after the victory.
When Germany was defeated instead The stone remained in Oskarshamn and even today there is a small lot which, however, becomes thinner because the stones are used for various constructions.
Lars Gyllenhaal’s book makes me want to get in the car and head out to Sweden. There is a lot to see for those who are historically interested. Small and big.
