My master thesis concerns Sweden during the Second World War, and Sweden´s relation to occupied Norway. During the last spring of the war, German troops still sized 300 000 men terrorized the Norwegian country and populations. Troops evacuated the population in “Finnmark” and destroyed their settlements. As afraid of continued destruction of Norwegian industrial and other interests, the Norwegian government, now seated in London, appealed to Sweden at the beginning of February for a possibly coming and needed military help against remaining German soldiers. Sweden hesitated and waited for the end of the war to come and didn’t want to make any commitment of future actions, but ostensibly started up planning for an eventual military intervention. In April the Norwegian government appealed once again for help and suggested Sweden to mobilize the military as a press on the germen remaining troops to surrender. Sweden hesitated once again and consider to have had full information of the situation in Norway and therefore could hold an opinion of an inoffensive end to the war in Norway. The Norwegian government went very upset, not accepting another state to have better information of the situation in their own country and felt betrayed by Sweden. This thesis tries to describe the disagreement between the two countries and to scrutinize the information Sweden could have had to assert a position of a peaceful end in Norway.

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