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Britain's 'rudest' comic confronts PC Sweden

Society: 8 Dec 11
Roy 'Chubby' Brown, dubbed “the most sexist, racist comedian in the UK” is coming to Sweden, leaving many - including Brown - wondering how somewhat more politically correct Swedes will react, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Hitler paintings 'genuine': ex-Hells Angels boss

National: 8 Nov 11
Ex-Hells Angels leader Thomas Möller has argued that a selection of paintings slated for sale to pay off debts were indeed created by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, rejecting an expert opinion that they were fakes. READ »

Agency slammed for Hitler painting sales

National: 7 Nov 11
Sweden's debt collection agency's plans to sell seven paintings by Adolf Hitler, a move which has drawn criticism from the Jewish association in Stockholm, has been scuppered after the works were deemed to be fakes. READ »

Secluded Swedish castle reveals hidden Nazi past

Lifestyle: 6 Oct 11
A chance encounter with the granddaughter of a Swedish count gave contributor Roger Choate an inside peek at the mysteries of Rockelstad Castle, once a frequent destination for a notorious Nazi leader. READ »

Man fined for Nazi salute

National: 27 Aug 11
In the second case of its kind in recent months, a man from Småland in southern Sweden has been fined for making Nazi salutes shouting ”Heil Hitler”. READ »

Swedish TV duo quaff Hitler champagne in Kamprad tribute

Society: 25 Aug 11
Swedish TV comedy pair Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson cracked open a bottle of champagne once belonging to Adolf Hitler on Wednesday as a tribute to the renewed focus on Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's Nazi past. READ »

'Ikea founder was an active Nazi': report

Business & Money: 24 Aug 11
The Swedish security police tracked Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's membership in a Swedish Nazi movement in the 1940s, one of the revelations of the business leader's Nazi past revealed in a new book. READ »

Scouts say no to neo-Nazi camp tenants

National: 8 Jul 11
A Swedish neo-Nazi political party, planning to gather this weekend in Höör, in southern Sweden, had not told the Scout association, the landlord of the premises, what it was to be used for. READ »

'Swedish shipments to Nazis may have been ransom for captured Swedes'

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Jun 11
Historical documents related to the capture of seven Swedes by the Gestapo in Poland in 1942 puts Sweden's subsequent ball bearing deliveries to Nazi Germany in a new light, argue historians Susanne Berger and Ingela Magner. READ »

Swedish kids invited to neo-Nazi summer camp

National: 14 Jun 11
A Swedish neo-Nazi political party is offering children free admission to a camp scheduled to be held in a secret location in southern Sweden this summer. But not everyone is welcome to attend. READ »

Stephen Lynch - laughing in the face of the inferno

Lifestyle: 8 Jun 11
American funnyman Stephen Lynch, the self-professed "musician trapped in the body of a comedian", is all revved to bring his "Beefy Burrito" back to Sweden, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Swedish neo-Nazi booted from local council

Politics: 17 Dec 10
A Swedish neo-Nazi has lost his seat on a local council in Grästorp in western Sweden after authorities discovered that he does not live in the municipality. READ »

US embassy: 'Sweden no longer neutral'

Politics: 2 Dec 10
According to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks this week, Sweden is regarded as a "strong and pragmatic partner", whose official non-alignment does not reflect reality. READ »

Neo-Nazi takes seat in local Swedish council

Politics: 5 Nov 10
A newly elected municipal council representative from a neo-Nazi nationalist party started his first day as an elected official in western Sweden with a lesson on the ABCs of democracy. READ »

Olof Palme and Obamania: Swedes' love-hate relationship with the US

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
On the eve of the US mid-term elections, libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt takes a look at the evolution of Swedes' attitudes toward the United States – with some help from one of Sweden’s most revered singer-songwriters. READ »

'Nazi-era' names cause climber consternation

Society: 12 Aug 10
A popular climbing spot in Järfälla in Stockholm has prompted controversy after the cliff's climbing stages were given names from Hitler's Germany such as "Kristallnacht" and "The Crematorium". READ »

'Heil Hitler' song deemed not hate speech: ruling

Society: 23 Jul 10
The Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern, JK) will not bring criminal charges against a car owner who played late rockabilly singer Eddie Meduza's song "Heil Hitler" over loudspeakers to a large group of people in a parking lot. READ »

Why deny a princess her fairytale? Republicans and the royal weddings

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 10
With Sweden's royal wedding year now upon us, writer and commoner Allan Burnett hoists the flag for an influential group catering for the anti-monarchy needs of a large and flabbergasted minority. READ »

Sportsman in hate speech row over Tottenham anti-Jew 'joke'

Sport: 26 Jan 10
A Swedish bandy player has been reported for hate speech after calling for Liverpool to "push forward harder than the Germans did on the Night of the Broken Glass" in their recent match against Tottenham. READ »

Sweden hopes gas talks don't turn poisonous at EU-Russia summit

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Nov 09
EU and Russian leaders will open summit talks in Sweden on Wednesday in an atmosphere clouded by uneasy relations between Moscow and Stockholm over human rights and last's year's war in Georgia. READ »

Swedish reporter meets hostile Israeli crowd

Society: 2 Nov 09
Swedish journalist Donald Boström told an angry audience in Israel on Monday that he stood by his call for an investigation into claims that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, despite confessing he had no proof. READ »

Organ theft article 'a perversion of journalistic standards'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Oct 09
Amid an ongoing uproar over accusations that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, media watcher Andrea Levin issues a fresh plea to Aftonbladet to correct "the factual errors that litter the article". READ »

'Cyncism prevails for vote-hungry officials in Sweden and Israel'

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Aug 09
As the Aftonbladet organ harvesting scandal rumbles to the end of its second week, Stockholm-based Israeli writer David Stavrou calls on policy makers in Sweden and Israel to shed light on the situation rather than turning up the heat. READ »

Russia snubs Sweden summit plans

Politics: 1 Jul 09
Sweden's fraught relationship with Moscow has come to the fore on the first day of the Swedish EU presidency as Russia objects to plans to hold a major summit in Stockholm. READ »

Swedish politician sings Hitler's praises

Politics: 18 Jun 09
A local Christian Democratic politician in northern Sweden is in hot water after praising Adolf Hitler for his skill in solving economic crises. READ »

Mugabe guard roughs up Riksdag member

Politics: 15 Apr 09
A Swedish parliamentarian’s decision to snap a couple of pictures of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe did not sit well with the president’s bodyguards. READ »

Crowd ban 'risks bolstering extremists'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 09
The City of Malmö's decision to hold the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match behind closed doors is ill-conceived, short-sighted and potentially dangerous, argues freelance Israeli journalist David Stavrou. READ »

Two convicted over Hitler salute

Society: 20 Feb 09
Two men have been convicted of agitation against an ethnic group after performing Nazi salutes in front of a crowd in Arvika in western Sweden last summer. READ »

Swedes approved secret Nazi loan: report

National: 15 Feb 09
New documents have emerged indicating that Swedish finance minister, Ernst Wigforss, approved secret Swedish bank credits to Nazi Germany in 1941. READ »

Church furor over 'racist' religious group

Society: 22 Jan 09
The Church of Sweden on Thursday cited lax oversight as the reason why a conservative religious group aiming to convert Sweden to Catholicism and with leaders who deny the Holocaust was given permission to hold meetings in Swedish churches. READ »

2008: The year in review

Lifestyle: 31 Dec 08
As 2008 draws to a close, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention over the last twelve months. READ »

Bildt's behaviour has Russians seeing red

Politics: 1 Oct 08
Comments comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, and a decision to have dinner in Ukraine have put Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt on Russia's black-list. READ »

Viewers not amused by Swedish TV Hitler joke

Society: 22 Aug 08
A television show focusing on the Olympic Games has been reported to the Swedish Broadcasting Commission for allegedly making offensive comments regarding Germany's Nazi history on live television. READ »

Sweden invokes Hitler in condemning Russian assault

National: 9 Aug 08
Sweden has evoked the memory of Adolf Hitler in condemning Russia's attacks on Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. READ »

Hägglund lashes out at Sweden Democrats

Politics: 10 Jul 08
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund has launched a searing attack on the Sweden Democrats, a party he said had failed to shake off its Nazi past. READ »

Neo-Nazi arrests on National Day

National: 7 Jun 08
Over 100 neo-Nazis were arrested by police as National Day celebrations turned violent in Stockholm on Friday. READ »

Making history: the Gulag, the Holocaust, and Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Apr 08
Who suffered more, victims of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, or victims of Hitler, Eichmann, and Himmler? And what role does the Swedish state have in answering the question? David Landes looks at what Sweden’s papers have to say about the issue. READ »

Former Swedish minister calls for Olympic boycott

National: 27 Mar 08
Sweden’s athletically-inclined former Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström has suggested that Sweden boycott parts of the Olympic Games in Beijing. READ »

Aussie ex-crim wants out of Sweden's 'Hitler society'

Society: 27 Feb 08
An Australian man convicted of rape in Australia is pleading to be allowed to return to his home country following his deportation to Sweden. READ »

'Schoolyard Nazis' plead innocence

Society: 7 Dec 07
Twenty pupils caught shouting Nazi slogans at a school in Malmö say the whole thing was a big misunderstanding. READ »

Teen Nazis convicted of brutal murder

National: 1 Nov 07
Two 16-year old members of a neo-Nazi group have been convicted of the murder of a physically disabled 55-year-old man. READ »

Teen Nazis 'murdered disabled man'

National: 10 Oct 07
Two teenage boys have been charged with murdering a disabled 55-year-old man near Stockholm in June. The suspects are members of a known neo-Nazi group. READ »

Boy prosecuted for Nazi salute in music lesson

National: 11 Sep 07
A 16-year-old boy from western Sweden is facing prosecution after performing a Nazi salute in a school music lesson. READ »

Swede snaps up Hitler's champagne

National: 18 Aug 07
A bottle of champagne from Hitler's wine cellar was bought at auction in Dorset, in the south of England, by an anonymous Swede on Friday. The price tag for the undrinkable bubbly was 23,000 kronor. READ »

Nazi pupils cause school closure

National: 2 Mar 07
Staff at a school near Umeå in northern Sweden have asked parents to keep pupils at home for two days as they discuss ways to tackle an increase in Nazi symbolism and racial abuse. READ »

Boys could face charges for Hitler salute

National: 8 Jan 07
Two schoolboys in northern Sweden may face charges for agitation against minority groups after performing a Nazi salute on school premises. READ »

Swedish artist commits cardinal sin in Rome

National: 7 Dec 06
Italian police brought Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin’s photo shoot to a hasty end in Rome last Saturday. It seems cardinals with erections are frowned upon in the Catholic country. READ »

Scania boss compares German bid to Hitler's tactics

Business & Money: 7 Dec 06
The Scania takeover battle stepped up on Wednesday, as the firm's chief executive Leif Östling likened a hostile bid by Germany's MAN to Hitler's 'blitzkrieg'. READ »

Hitler moustache angers Sweden Democrat

National: 19 Sep 06
A member of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats said he was angry after a newspaper picture was sabotaged to make him appear to be sporting a scribbled Hitler moustache. READ »

Comic portrays Alliance as Nazis

Politics: 15 Sep 06
The Social Democrats' allies in LO have been distributing a comic that portrays Fredrik Reinfelt as a baby killer and Christian Democrats as Nazis. LO's leadership has distanced itself from the cartoons. READ »

King reaches 60 secure on his throne

Lifestyle: 27 Apr 06
This weekend will see King Carl XVI Gustaf feted by foreign royalty, parliamentarians and thousands of his people. As he celebrates his 60th birthday, Sweden's king can satisfy himself with approval ratings that would make a politician green with envy. READ »

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