The early pro-Nazi attitude of famed Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman should surprise no one.
And no I don't mean because it was a youthful indiscretion on his part. According to Bergman it was the scenes from the liberation of the concentration camps that "...was a hideous shock for me...in a brutal and violent way I was suddenly ripped of my innocence." He was 26 in 1945. He was far from being the only prominent Swede with that kind of past.
No, we shouldn't be surprised because much of Sweden's experience in the first half of the
Twentieth Century has been as a silent partner to the German war machine. Sweden the benevolent neutral was the source of iron ore and steel ball bearings for Germany during the First and Second world Wars.
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