In an editorial pointing out that Hitler’s doom is sealed, the Sydvenska Dagbladet says that he did suceed, however, in winning his war against the Jews.
“The Nazi war against Jewry,” the paper states. “was not war in the accepted meaning of the word. It was nothing but mass-murder of defenseless people, the most terrible pogrom in the history of mankind.”
An article in the Stockholm Tidningen asserting that the average German is innocent of crimes against Jews is severely criticized in the liberal press here, The Morgon Tidningen writes that “the German people must been responsibility for the proceeds of Nazism” and adds that “the German people should have opposed pogroms in their initial stages.”
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