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Astrid Lindgren is world famous as the author of the Pippi Longstocking children's book series. She kept a diary during WWII. This article gives some excerpts from important dates from the war. Here is an interesting quote from her diary.

"10 MAY (1940). In the whole of Northern Europe Sweden is now the only nation that is neither currently at war, nor has been. But it could be our turn next.

Germany is like some malevolent monster that emerges from its cave at regular intervals to pounce on a fresh victim. There has to be something wrong with a people that finds itself pitted against the rest of humanity every 20 years or so."