Swedish professor says Finland had to cooperate with Nazi Germany

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The debate over Finland’s military cooperation with Nazi Germany during the Second World War continued on the pages of the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet on Wednesday.
      In his comment, renowned Swedish security policy expert, Professor Bo Huldt, wrote that Finland had no choice but to ally itself with Germany.
     
The long-standing consensus in Sweden has been that Finland defended itself courageously against an aggressive Soviet Union during the war.
      A Swedish journalist, Henrik Arnstad, wrote in a recent book that wartime Finland was a closer friend of the Nazis and their ideology than has been conceded previously.
      In his article, Bo Huldt says that many factors indicate that Finland would probably not have had much choice other than what it did.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Finns resentful over Swedish author´s claims of Nazi sympathies in war (4.12.2006)

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