tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post507506871262810382..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Sweden v. SwitzerlandUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89433348104202521022011-11-07T01:05:57.173-08:002011-11-07T01:05:57.173-08:00Almost all the posts cover WWII, and little else. ...Almost all the posts cover WWII, and little else. Sweden has been around since the 10th century AD, and Switzerland for only a few centuries shorter. <br /><br />Yet, posters focus on 6 years - presumably because those are extensively covered by movies. Why should Steveosphere posters let their worldview be so heavily colored by moviemakers? Do you think those people have your interests at heart?Swordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86383936750725161712011-11-03T17:08:29.418-07:002011-11-03T17:08:29.418-07:00""who blames the 'Joos'"
T...<i>""who blames the 'Joos'"<br /><br />Thats what passes for a serious anti-anti-semetic argument around here?<br /><br />Mis-spelling the word 'Jews'?"</i><br /><br />Worse than misspelling "misspelling", or "Semitic"?Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7130205517249195082011-11-03T15:31:14.874-07:002011-11-03T15:31:14.874-07:00But humor can also have a pacifying effect.
I'...<i>But humor can also have a pacifying effect.</i><br /><br />I've gotten to the point where I can suss out your posts within the first few lines. Don't change a thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59081722154286451492011-11-03T13:26:37.403-07:002011-11-03T13:26:37.403-07:00"who blames the 'Joos'"
Thats w..."who blames the 'Joos'"<br /><br />Thats what passes for a serious anti-anti-semetic argument around here?<br /><br />Mis-spelling the word 'Jews'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77013699840715965422011-11-03T11:59:45.147-07:002011-11-03T11:59:45.147-07:00icr:
And yet, there was quite a bit of overlap be...icr:<br /><br />And yet, there was quite a bit of overlap between socialists and eugenecists in the early 20th century. My impression is that this was a lot more than an occasional failing of their adherance to their ideology. The basic conceit of socialism is that you can get a better society by managing a lot more of that society (particularly the large industries) centrally, rather than allowing decentralized management. Alongside that, it was common to believe that a lot of other parts of society--nationalism, religious belief, treatment of women, class identity--could also be improved by some top-down management. In that context, it seems to me that eugenics fits very well with the larger thread of thought--along with educating people out of their primitive nationalistic prejudices and silly superstitions, you could improve the whole society by engaging in top-down selective breeding--sterilizing the inferior, encouraging more children by the superior.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43175739703974558662011-11-03T09:24:53.513-07:002011-11-03T09:24:53.513-07:00Switzerland, because of its small-government, pro-...Switzerland, because of its small-government, pro-gun attitude (not to mention the powerful SVP), is not nearly as sexy for liberals as Sweden is. Unfortunately, it's not as sexy for conservatives either because of its reputation as a center for banks and international organizations.corvinusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62019771940987310402011-11-03T08:17:27.117-07:002011-11-03T08:17:27.117-07:00I've got news for you - that was liberalism be...<i>I've got news for you - that was liberalism before 1945, all over the world. Why do you think liberals were so big into eugenics? (Another fact flushed down the memory hole)</i><br /><br />You've been watching too much Glenn Beck. <br /><br />Eugenics and racialism are obviously inherently anti-egalitarian-therefore rightist in essence. That doesn't mean that progressives and leftists <br />didn't sometimes (*many* times) violate egalitarian dogma in the service of their utopian projects (putting to the side *non* utopian projects that involved improving living and working conditions for the urban proletariat). Also Marx, Jack London and many other socialists of the 19th and early 20th Centuries were mainly thinking in terms of the *white* working class and generally had rather low opinions of non-whites. That didn't stop Marx from being an enemy of black slavery and a big booster of the Union cause.icrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70964845713874119852011-11-03T08:15:23.711-07:002011-11-03T08:15:23.711-07:00Sweden also militarized to stay at peace. This be...Sweden also militarized to stay at peace. This began in the early 20th century, where concerns over Russian naval expansion led to the construction of numerous coastal fortifications and coastal battleships (small but heavily armored, big-gunned ships designed to operate in shallow archipelagos).<br /><br />During World War Two Sweden's militarization expanded dramatically, and Sweden forged ahead with the creation of a nearly complete military-industrial complex. By the late 1940s Swedish industry was turning out indigenously designed jet fighters and modern submarines. Conscription was universal, and numerous arms caches and wilderness supply depots were spread across the country. Sweden's highways, like the Autobahn, are designed so that aircraft can land on them.<br /><br />The only other small country with such a vast military-industrial complex is Israel. Today with the end of the Cold War the society has largely demilitarized, but the military-industrial complex is being sustained by an increase in exports.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5916289998990211532011-11-03T01:47:28.259-07:002011-11-03T01:47:28.259-07:00Adolf probably called them all kinds of names rang...Adolf probably called them all kinds of names ranging from pimple to boil but had praised their voelkische greatness just as often, and it wasn't his top priority anyway. I've seen this Swiss laundering from 2nd Amendment guys. Not counting unrecorded inner qualms they would have been OK with a German imperium, to an extent. Although the tetchier criticism is an example of David Hackett Fischer's "historian's fallacy"<br /><br />Sweden's more grayish, since their politics were always tilted by the bigger neighbor to the east.Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1158805948686068112011-11-02T20:54:38.845-07:002011-11-02T20:54:38.845-07:00Another interesting case of neutrality was Franco&...Another interesting case of neutrality was Franco's Spain. Franco had received a lot of help from Germany in winning the civil war, but turned out not to be too interested in getting Spain caught up in the middle of the second world war. As with Switzerland, this turned out well for both the world and for Spain.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78319542739879556472011-11-02T20:51:58.145-07:002011-11-02T20:51:58.145-07:00anon troll:
Yeah, not declaring war worked out re...anon troll:<br /><br />Yeah, not declaring war worked out really well for Czechloslavakia, Poland, Austria, Yugoslavia, and the USSR. Clearly, that was all you had to do to be safe from Germany in the mid 30s through 45.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60034489252604748702011-11-02T18:42:43.333-07:002011-11-02T18:42:43.333-07:00"Hitler mounted plans to invade Switzerland b..."<i>Hitler mounted plans to invade Switzerland but called them off as too costly.</i>"<br /><br />Put it another way:<br /><br />All belligerents at war make plans to invade neighbors. In fact, all major-power non-belligerents at peace make plans to invade neighbors, if the need arises, too.<br /><br />Canadian tabloids occasionally wave around "U.S. plans to invade Canada" from the early 20th century. There were such plans.<br /><br />If we had a prevailing <b>Howard-Zinn understanding of history</b>, commentators today would say: "<i>The ImperialistAmericans mounted plans to invade Canada, but called them off as too costly</i>". <br /><br />(Actually, this <i>was</i> true in both the 1770s and the 1810s, and came close in the 1840s ("<a href="http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/5440orfight.htm" rel="nofollow">54'40 Or Fight</a>"), if I'm not mistaken).Hailhttp://hailtoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18540347387232868682011-11-02T18:35:41.475-07:002011-11-02T18:35:41.475-07:00"Hitler mounted plans to invade Switzerland b..."<i>Hitler mounted plans to invade Switzerland but called them off as too costly.</i>"<br /><br />Or they simply called the plans off as strategically unnecessary, given that Switzerland was surrounded, and had no aspirations towards helping or joining the (then-)British-led alliance. Of course, this explanation goes against the Hitler Myth, that he was as arbitrarily and insanely aggressive as a bored video-game player today. <br /><br />In fact, given this historical paradigm we have, the record shows that the Germans were <i>remarkably</i> restrained:<br /><br />Consider this:<br />"Field-Marshal Erhard Milch told me [that] when Luftwaffe generals asked Adolf Hitler for permission to start using poison gas, he refused. He said that Germany was bound by the Geneva Convention on gas warfare, and would never be the first country to implement its use. Winston Churchill on the other hand, in a drunken fit on July 6, 1944, ordered unrestricted gas attacks on six major German cities (see my forthcoming 'Churchill's War', vol. iii); only the concentrated efforts of his general staff prevented the onset of this madness." (<a href="http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/History/Garcia101002.html" rel="nofollow">Source</a>).Hailhttp://hailtoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55169932929596548732011-11-02T17:03:28.904-07:002011-11-02T17:03:28.904-07:00Since the 50s and 60s with the rise of black-influ...Since the 50s and 60s with the rise of black-influenced youth culture, there's been an increase in freedom without responsibility, without shame: the world of CLOCKWORK ORANGE. And since liberals who control much of society find notions such as 'shame' as old-fashioned and reactionary, they don't stress or try to restore it. 'Shame' and responsibility are conservative while uninhibitedness and spontaneity are liberal(and liberating). But, freedom without shame and responsibility has led to increase in crime and sexual lunacy. What is to be done about it? Some liberals say the problem is not morals but social injustice. Blacks commit more crime cuz of 'oppression' and 'despair'. When they loot, they are not having fun but acting out of enraged desperation. <br />Some liberals do admit there is a problem, but their proposals call for more technology--all those big brother cameras in UK--or more programs to 'educate' kids and 'raise their consciousness'(which however usually amount to 'blame whitey for racism' and only serves to justify black and underclass violence even more). <br /><br />When conservatives call for a return to traditional morality, lights go on in liberals' minds: 'father knows best' patriarchalism, sexual repression in the 50s, segregation, bland lily white suburbanism, etc. <br />Also, liberals find 'immorality' as an explanation for social problems to be 'naive' and 'simpleminded'. Raised in the truth of 'social sciences' that 'rationally' and 'psychologically' explain social problems in a 'scientific' and 'intellectual' and 'progressive' manner, it's beneath educated liberals to believe in the worth of traditional morality. <br />Even when liberals do come around to valuing something like 'marriage', they stress how it must be 'fixed' by 'empowering the woman' and adding 'gay marriage' to make marriage 'cool and hip and inclusive'. <br /><br />I don't know if Pinker deals with rap music, but if he didn't, he's missing out on a world phenomenon that is turning underclass kids into perpetual thug-infants and turning middle class kids into anti-role models. When well-to-do educated kids' idea of mainstream culture is thug-scum who howl foul-mouthed nursery rhymes, what hope is there for any kind of re-civilizing process? At least hippies in the 60s had something of a higher vision. At least Captain America in EASY RIDER was wise enough to say 'we blew it'. Boomers had a problem growing up, but they did grow up. Can we say that about the current generation hooked to Lil Wayne and 50 cents?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69056874388174666002011-11-02T17:02:32.098-07:002011-11-02T17:02:32.098-07:00With every increase in FREEDOM, there needs to be ...With every increase in FREEDOM, there needs to be an increase in RESPONSIBILITY or SUPERVISION. <br />It's like parents tell their kids, 'more freedom means more accountability'. Children have less freedom, but when they mess up and get in trouble, adults take the responsibility(or at least decent parents do). We believe that kids, being simple-minded and 'innocent', cannot be held fully responsible for things they do. So, as kids grow up, they are offered the promise of more freedom but also acculturated to be more 'adult' and take responsibility for their own actions. <br />Ideally, as kids learn to how to drive a car and learn about sex, they are also taught to be responsible with their actions cuz being wild and crazy with cars and sex can lead to problems. <br /><br />Traditionally, that was the meaning of American freedom. The notion that freedom has to be earned; that young people had to be civilized and raised to be adults and act grown-up.<br /> <br />Thus, American adults are free individuals with the knowledge that freedom doesn't mean acting like ANYWAY THEY PLEASE or like louts and animals; it also means if they abuse their freedom and get in trouble, they have to take responsibility. <br />So, to earn freedom, one has to learn how to handle one's freedom. <br /><br />If there's increase in freedom without concomitant increase in responsibility, freedom becomes dangerous and crazy. It's becomes 'anarchic', the freedom of beasts, louts, and thugs. Listen to rap music, and it's like listening to adult-sized babies throwing tantrums whose message is 'I WANNA DO WHATEVER BUT I BLAME YOU FOR WHATEVER GOES WRONG'. It's an infantile attitude on freedom. <br />When there's an increase in freedom without the culture of responsibility to accompany it, society needs to increase SUPERVISION. <br /><br />In a community of responsible free adults, a storeowner can trust his customers. Most of them will not steal even if they can cuz they have values(and would feel inner shame if they did steal). <br />But in a community of infantile free adults, a storeowner must regard all his customers as potential thieves who will steal if given half the chance. Thus, the store needs surveillance cameras, alarms, steel gates, security guard, etc. <br />The problem with the black community is it's filled with infantile adults with freedom but no sense of accountability--and since the adults are infantile, their kids don't grow up to be any better. If they don't steal in certain stores, it's not because they have a sense of shame and morality but because they fear getting caught and going to jail.(Understanding of right and wrong may not be enough. Even if a person knows stealing if wrong, he may do so if he hasn't been conditioined to feel shame and self-loathing if he did steal.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57141563788598442912011-11-02T15:08:09.975-07:002011-11-02T15:08:09.975-07:00"THere were Indian and Punjabi SS regiments a...<i>"THere were Indian and Punjabi SS regiments as well. Diversity!"</i><br /><br />And Bosnian Muslim ones too, along with French, Swedish, and others. In fact, one of the fiercest units in the Battle of Berlin was a French SS unit. <br /><br />I will have to ask my co-ethnics in Hollywood to highlight the diversity of the SS in their next WWII movie.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24719336739130168012011-11-02T15:05:52.099-07:002011-11-02T15:05:52.099-07:00With respect to the anonymous troll's comments...With respect to the anonymous troll's comments about Switzerland:<br /><br />1) The Luftwaffe bombed Stalingrad to rubble. Literally. How did that work out? <br /><br />2) Switzerland's dealings with Nazi Germany didn't stop Hitler from wanting to invade the country. He was not a fan of the country, calling it "a pimple on the face of Europe". He had his military staff draw up plans to invade Switzerland, but after he got enmeshed in a war of extermination with Russia, invading Switzerland was no longer in the cards.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61346978008271566042011-11-02T14:41:38.528-07:002011-11-02T14:41:38.528-07:00"The Swiss new full well that they wouldn'...<i>"The Swiss new full well that they wouldn't stand a chance against the SS divisions."</i><br /><br />Every Swiss mountain pass would have been a little Thermopylae for the Germans.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54311102630602053222011-11-02T14:03:24.647-07:002011-11-02T14:03:24.647-07:00quick and dirty comparison.
sweden 9.4 million pe...quick and dirty comparison.<br /><br />sweden 9.4 million people<br />switzerland 7.8 million people<br /><br />sweden $50,200 nominal per capita GDP<br />switzerland $68,700 nominal per capita GDP<br /><br />second highest per capita GDP in the world, excluding a few tiny nations with less than 1 million citizens. only norway and it's oil bounty are rolling in more money.<br /><br />you know i think i'm going to do a brief investigation into east germany, and look at just how far behind that place was by 1989 and how dramatically it has been brought forward in 20 years after reunification. on wikipedia it says per capita GDP was estimated at $9800 in 1984. adjusting for inflation that's about $20,200. by 2010, germany had brought that all the way up to $40,600.<br /><br />that's a $30,800 increase in 20 years in real dollars and a $20,400 increase in adjusted dollars. has any nation in the world had such a huge effect in such a short time? and what would the prospects be for north korea in a korean unification?jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16313895678862725622011-11-02T13:21:47.865-07:002011-11-02T13:21:47.865-07:00Sweden wasn't so liberal before 1945:
http://c...<i>Sweden wasn't so liberal before 1945:<br />http://conswede.blogspot.com/2008/07/social-paradigms-shift-eg-our-view-on.html<br />To illustrate what I talk about. Louis Armstrong visited Sweden in 1933. In all the news papers he was describe as something monkey-like let loose from the jungle. All across the line! And in the reviews by the most serious music critics.</i> <br /> <br /><br /><br />I've got news for you - that <i>was</i> liberalism before 1945, all over the world. Why do you think liberals were so big into eugenics? (Another fact flushed down the memory hole)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86509019202300153102011-11-02T12:37:02.577-07:002011-11-02T12:37:02.577-07:00All the countries of western Europe could have bee...All the countries of western Europe could have been safe from Nazi attack as Switzerland was. The fact that no conflict was sought with this country by Germany shows that Hitler didn't seek any conflict with western Europe. It was only because Britain declared war on Germany following Chamberlains' imbecelic and moronic pledge to autocratic military-junta ruled Poland that it happened. Denmark and Norway were invaded only because of war with Britain and France (Churchill's violation Of Norwegian neutrality didn't help either). Likewise the low countries and France were occupied only because of the war declaration. Greece was only occupied becuase that buffoon Mussolini had to be bailed out. Had the western Europeans (meaning the British and to a less extent, the French), like the Swiss, just looked after their own affairs and not tried to be the European continents' "police officers" none of them would have been invaded. "WW2" in Europe would have been an exclusive German-Soviet war. The British and the French, could have watched the show on the sidelines and subsequently taken whatever measures (if any) they thought was needed. As Switzerland shows, there is a lot to be said for being a free agent in international affairs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77912664319447254382011-11-02T12:35:20.492-07:002011-11-02T12:35:20.492-07:00Swedes were in the Waffen SS - Viking Division.
TH...<i>Swedes were in the Waffen SS - Viking Division.</i><br />THere were Indian and Punjabi SS regiments as well. Diversity!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50934335956994710132011-11-02T11:51:21.564-07:002011-11-02T11:51:21.564-07:00So, there are tons of jokes about people who oppos...So, there are tons of jokes about people who oppose 'gay marriage' on late night TV shows. Thus, millions of viewers come to think: 'opposing gay marriage is unhip, square, stupid, hateful, ridiculous, and something to laugh at'. In 2008, comedy writers almost never touched Obama. In fact, his treatment by the media was humorless and highfalutin. Similarly, there is a rule that forbids any jokes about MLK. We can joke about Jesus and God but not about MLK. Crack a joke about MLK and you're blacklisted from the comedy circuit. Sarah Silverman pretended to make fun of MLK but she didn't really push the buttons that mattered: his womanizing and physical violence to prostitutes, his academic fraud, his dirty political tricks and lies. <br />And generally, jokes about Muhammad are forbidden cuz Muslims might go nuts. As we saw with the Muhammad cartoons in Europe, humor can trigger violence. But, if the Muslim world eventually came to appreciate greater humor and could even laugh at Muhammad, they would be less violent with their religion. <br /><br />Popular dance/music also has a way of bringing people togther. Before the white race and black race intermingled socially, their music went back and forth. Even during the era of slavery, whites sometimes enjoyed black music and black music drew from white music. Whites began to feel and act more black through stuff like Jazz and rock n roll before they integrated with blacks. Music goes beyond blood and soil. Even though Nazis made claims of 'Aryan music', German music was appreciated and loved all over. And even during the time of slavery, whites could hear music from black quarters, and vice versa. Even if blacks were not allowed into white areas, music traveled freely through air. <br />Even white southerners came to love Elvis Presley, and as such, they became indirectly linked to black culture even as they rejected integration. But over time, musical culture also affected one's identity. If one loved the blues, wasn't one soulfully kinda black? And as Jazz borrowed elements from classical music and stuff, it gained the cachet of sophistication, which meant serious musical intellectuals also took Jazz more seriously. It had a way of dissolving the barriers not only between black and white but between high and low. <br />And with so many famous Jewish musicians--pianists and violinists especially--, Jews became integral to the preservation of classical music, the soul of the West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73414135000220284412011-11-02T11:50:49.044-07:002011-11-02T11:50:49.044-07:00Did Pinker touch upon humor and popular dance/musi...Did Pinker touch upon humor and popular dance/music? Both humor and popular dance/music seem to be double-edged swords. Violent ruffians often laugh at their victims. Violence can be a kind of fun orgy, and plenty of thug rappers mix humor with brutality. <br />And popular music, especially with rise of rock n roll, unleashed wild youthful eneriges that sometimes led to violence. <br /><br />But humor can also have a pacifying effect. Suppose a Jew-hater sees a Jew as a 'Christ-killer' and 'leech' and wants to hit him. But suppose he becomes a fan of a Jewish comic who says the funniest things. Though hating the Jew, he also finds him drawing pleasure from the Jew. Eventually, he may rather prefer hugging the Jew than beating the Jew. Humor is pleasure, and the Jew who doles out humor is appreciated by people who are grateful for the jokes. <br /><br />The Jew may initially have made fun of himself---playing the clown--before the goyim because if he poked fun at goyim, the goyim might get pissed off and hit the Jew. But as goyim began to crack up at the Jew, the Jew gradually poked fun at goyim, and then the goyim began to laugh at other goyim and even at themselves. Take DUCK SOUP where Chico and Harpo drive goyim nuts. But instead of identifying and siding with the goyim against the Marx Brothers, we find ourselves laughing with the Jewish comics at the expense of the goyim(who really represent us dummies). Thus, our sense of 'us vs them' is weakened. We come to love the Jew, even when he's poking fun at us. <br /><br />The spread of humor via modern media-and-democracy also had the effect of making people less obedient of their leaders. People began to see rulers and elites less as almighty and more as ridiculous pompous fools. If democratic freedom had been allowed in Nazi Germany, comedians would have poked fun at Hitler, and many Germans would have come to regard Hitler as a clown--which is why THE GREAT DICTATOR was banned in Germany. <br />Though Hitler did use humor to attack his enemies and make Germans laugh, the rule was NO ONE could make jokes about him or laugh at him. Hitler Youth were raised to worship him. Such lack of humor led to the humorless killing machine of the SS. It could be that Gaddafi lost support amongst his people because in his old age, he looked more and more laughable in his silly costumes. People began to laugh at the clown and could no longer take him seriously as a 'great man'. <br /><br />Indeed, tyrants fear humor, parody, lampoon, and satire. Humor has a way of loosening the authority and respect of the rulers and elites who can be ridiculed and laughed at. <br />Of course, humor is also used as a political weapon, but while humor may undermine reputations, it doesn't kill people. Individuals like Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart became powerful thru their use of humor. It wasn't so much that they said intelligent or truthful things but that they made their side laugh at the other side. <br /><br />Liberals understand this. It's possible that the most powerful political force in America is late night talk shows. Though not explictly political, talkshow hosts read lines prepared by mostly liberal Jewish comedy writers. The audience is generally made to laugh at the opponents of liberals, and so the people come to regard conservatives as idiots, fools, morons, etc. Don't poke fun at gays or gay parades--no matter how ridiculous they are--but poke endless fun at the Christian Right and people opposed to the gay agenda as repressed, stupid, superstitious, bigoted clowns. When gays initially said Teletubbies is a gay-friendly show, no one made jokes about it. But when Jerry Falwell picked up on that story and made the same remark, he was roundly ridiculed by liberal comedy writers as 'paranoid'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17950262871506562011-11-02T11:18:32.613-07:002011-11-02T11:18:32.613-07:00It was iron ore, not chromium:
http://www.jewishvi...It was iron ore, not chromium:<br />http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/assets1.html<br /><i>The U.S. military particularly deplored Sweden's continued critically important exports of iron ore and ball-bearings to Germany and its tolerance for the transit of German soldiers and war materials across Sweden and through the Baltic under Swedish naval protection. During the last half of 1943 and the early months of 1944, the United States sought to cripple Germany's ability to continue the War by carrying out a concentrated and costly bombing campaign against ball-bearing production in Germany combined with trade negotiations, including preclusive purchasing arrangements, intended to cut off Swedish ball-bearings to Germany.</i>icrnoreply@blogger.com