Holocaust: number of prisoners rescued by the Swedish Red Cross 1945
Danish and Norwegian Jews in 1943. As the Axis forces rapidly lost ground the following year, Scandinavian authorities became concerned for those prisoners detained in German territories. Swedish diplomats in Berlin were able to negotiate the repatriation of some Scandinavian prisoners in late 1944, and a series of humanitarian and smuggling missions helped map out where the remaining Danish and Norwegian prisoners were being kept. This then led to the largest rescue mission of the Second World War.
Despite Sweden's economic ties with Germany throughout the war, the escalation of the Holocaust saw relations turn sour, and Sweden became a safe haven for thousands of