Nazism
The following articles have been tagged with "Nazism":
Queen appeals swastika montage publication
Society: 20 Feb 13
Sweden's Queen Silvia has resubmitted a press ethics complaint concerning the newspapers that chose to reproduce artwork that she found "insulting and hurtful" because it portrayed her scrubbing a Nazi swastika off the floor.
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Swedes to get Raoul Wallenberg memorial day
Politics: 4 Jan 13
Top Swedish politicians have introduced an official memorial day for the "great Swede" Raoul Wallenberg, who saved 100,000 people from the Holocaust in Budapest during World War II.
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Sweden Democrats tell neo-Nazi to vacate seat
Politics: 2 Dec 12
A man with a background in the neo-Nazi movement looks set to claim a seat on Lidköping municipal council in central Sweden in replace of a member of the Sweden Democrats, who have called on him to step down.
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'Islam is like Nazism': top Sweden Democrat
Politics: 22 Nov 12
The Sweden Democrats' new justice policy spokesman, unveiled on Thursday as part of a reshuffle in the wake of a racist video scandal, has already made headlines for his comparison of Islamism to Nazism.
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New film tackles Olof Palme's complex legacy
Lifestyle: 14 Sep 12
With their much-anticipated documentary about Sweden's slain Prime Minister Olof Palme set to open in cinemas across the country on Friday, the film's directors talk to The Local about Swedes' love-hate relationship with the controversial politician.
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'Ban Islam in Sweden': Sweden Democrat
Politics: 26 Aug 12
"Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion", said Pär Norling, group leader of the Sweden Democrats in Bollnäs, in an interview with Swedish television.
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'One individual can save the lives of thousands'
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Aug 12
As Sweden celebrated the centennial of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in August, the national coordinator for the Wallenberg year, Olle Wästberg, ponders the importance of individual responsibility.
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Raoul Wallenberg – Sweden's Not-So-Favourite Son
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jan 12
The Swedish government has announced that it will designate 2012 as the official "Raoul Wallenberg Year" and the honour is more than deserved, according to historian Susanne Berger.
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Ikea boss sacked for 'pro-Nazi' Facebook posts
Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
The manager of an Ikea store in Germany, who had Facebook friends belonging to a neo-Nazi political party, has been dismissed for posting offensive opinions on the social networking site.
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Never Mind the Genitals, Here's Lilla Lovis
Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
With the finals of Swedish Idol in full swing, contributor Katherine Dunn catches up with Lilla Lovis, a candy-haired Swedish singer whose lyrics detailing oral sex and female rape make her an entirely different flavour of pop star.
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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.
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'Not wrong' to move aide after Islam slur: ruling
Politics: 22 Sep 11
Sweden's top legal official has given backing to the decision to reassign the integration ministry civil servant who compared Islam to totalitarian ideologies.
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Book re-ignites debate on Ikea founder's Nazi past
Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 11
Recent revelations that Ingvar Kamprad was more active in Swedish Nazi movements than previously thought have called into question the Ikea founder's claims that it was simply a “folly of youth”, the AFP's Nina Larsson explains.
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Fast food freebie features swastika tattoo
Society: 11 Aug 11
When 8-year-old Eddie and his family recently ate at a fast food outlet in Umeå in northern Sweden, they were surprised to find that the gift inside the box featured a swastika tattoo.
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Silvia's dad in deal with Jewish businessman
Society: 9 Aug 11
Queen Silvia has revealed that her father conducted a business deal with a prominent Jewish businessman whereby he took over his company in Berlin in 1939 and thereby facilitated the man's emigration from Nazi Germany.
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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.
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Sweden's Queen Silvia to probe family Nazi links
Society: 15 May 11
Sweden's Queen Silvia has announced that she intends to investigate reports of her father's alleged links with Nazism.
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Sweden Democrat criticises 'race mixing'
Politics: 13 Feb 11
A replacement municipal councillor for the Sweden Democrats in eastern Sweden may be expelled from the party after writing in an online forum that he is against "race mixing" and that Europeans have children with "niggers, Asians, etc."
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Aide moved over 'Islam is like Nazism' comment
Politics: 19 Aug 10
A civil servant working under Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni will be assigned new duties after writing a blog saying that there are no good adherents of Islam and comparing the religion to Communism or Nazism.
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'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.
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'Auschwitz wasn't on another planet'
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jan 10
On the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou reflects on the importance of memory and self-examination, in Sweden and beyond, if we are to avoid recurrences of a catastrophe that was entirely man-made.
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Heirs bid to end Stieg Larsson inheritance row
Society: 2 Nov 09
Relatives of Stieg Larsson, the late Swedish author of the popular "Millennium" crime novels, have offered his former girlfriend 20 million kronor ($2.8 million) to settle a protracted inheritance dispute.
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Swedish neo-Nazi party undergoes makeover
Politics: 25 Nov 08
The National Socialist Front (NSF), one of the dominant groups within Sweden’s white-power movement, has disbanded and is re-launching itself as the Folkfronten ('People’s Front’) party.
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Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction
Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
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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.
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The Holocaust: Sweden's complex legacy
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 07
Bystander in the Second World War, yet refuge for victims of the Nazis. A leader in promoting tolerance, yet with a resurgent far-right. David Stavrou looks at the complex legacy of the Holocaust in Sweden.
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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.
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Principals backtrack on Sweden Democrat demonstration
National: 5 Jan 07
School principals in Karlskrona will not now be encouraging their pupils to demonstrate against the politics of the Sweden Democrats. "I can't imagine demonstrating against democratic decisions," said one principal.
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Karlskrona pupils to demonstrate against Sweden Democrats
Society: 4 Jan 07
School principals in Karlskrona want their pupils to take to the streets and protest against the growing influence of the Sweden Democrat party.
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War crimes suspect lectures future police officers
National: 4 Nov 06
Seven years ago Jackie Arklöv shot two policemen dead. On Friday he will appear in court accused of Balkan war crimes. Now he is lecturing to police students who visit him in prison.
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Sweden to compensate for secret police files
National: 7 Jun 06
The Swedish state has been ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to pay compensation to five people for the mishandling of information about them being held by the country's intelligence service, Säpo.
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Church withdraws funds for 'insulting' Jesus photos
Lifestyle: 5 May 06
An exhibition that shows photos of Jesus naked on the cross has had its funding withdrawn by the Church of Sweden. The show will go on, insists the gallery due to host it.
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Sweden followed Nazi marriage laws
National: 4 Apr 06
For ten years up until the end of the Second World War, Swedes who wanted to marry Germans were forced to prove that they were not Jewish. And 'racially impure' marriages could be annulled by Swedish courts.
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School to fail racist pupils
National: 29 Mar 06
Pupils at a junior high school in Kungälv risk being failed in social studies if they sympathise with racist or neo-nazi organisations. The National Agency for Education has reservations about the school's initiative.
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