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| | Co-Opting Nazi Germany: Neutrality in Europe During World War II |
 | | The Swedes believed, at least for the first years of the war, that cooperation with Germany was necessary to preserve a precarious neutrality. |
 | | The Swedish economy was, for a number of years, almost fully integrated into the Nazis' New Order; the country supplied Germany with high-grade iron ore (30 percent of that used by the German armaments industry), as well as ball bearings, foodstuffs, wood, and many other raw materials. |
 | | However, during the war, there appeared suddenly a large number of pictures of the German school and it was in Switzerland that he bought his best Cranachs. |
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