Maj. Sigmund Ahnfelt, head of the Swedish Army contingent to be sent to the Middle East as part of the United Nations police force was once a Nazi, the newspaper Dagstidningen reported today. The newspaper said that in the late 1930’s, Ahnfelt taught at a Nazi youth leaders school and was editor of the Nazi youth paper “Storm Torch.” Ahnfelt says that he left the Nazi Party in 1938.
(At United Nations headquarters in New York a high UN official, when asked for comment on Maj. Sigmund Ahnfelts alleged Nazi background, said that the United Nations has not yet been told by Sweden exactly what contingent it is contributing to the UN command or who will command the unit. The UN official implied that once a government contribution of troops is accepted, the individual members of that contingent will be assigned by the government concerned without specific control by the UN.)
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