Spain, Turkey and Portugal denied that their governments had acted improperly during World War II. The comments emerged one day after the U.S. State Department issued a report that the three countries — along with fellow neutrals Sweden, Switzerland and Argentina — had “helped to sustain the Nazi war effort” by trading with Hitler’s Germany. Swedish officials announced that they would incorporate the report’s findings into their own ongoing investigation of the country’s wartime behavior.
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