Sverige och kriget

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.

3. Episode 3 The Children of War

Episode 3 The Children of War
5.0May 25, 2025 · 58 min

The war is entering its third year. Finland is now also on the side of the Nazi regime against the Soviet Union, in what is called the Continuation War, and tens of thousands of Finnish war children are coming to Sweden. Resistance is growing against the Swedish government's policy of appeasement