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> Do you even look at Swedish mainstream media ever? These matters are definitely not widely discussed in "mainstream media" - I'd be interested in some citati

> Do you even look at Swedish mainstream media ever? These matters are definitely not widely discussed in "mainstream media" - I'd be interested in some citations if you think I'm wrong. I'd say they are known and discussed in certain circles, but they're definitely not taught in the school curriculum, in spite of being a large and intrinsic part of recent Swedish history. For instance, the country's largest home-rental organization (HSB) was reporting 'misbehaving' occupants of their apartments as candidates for sterilization long into the second half of the twentieth century. So sterilization was hardly a fringe issue, and yet I would be very surprised if Swedes under 20 have even heard of it.

Ma8ee 5y ago
Here are some resources currently used in Swedish schools about the forced sterilisation [0]. In the section about Sweden during the Second World War, there is a prominent section about Swedish "eftergiftspolitik" [1]. The second paragraph in the WWII article is about how Sweden sold iron ore to the Germans and how important that was to the Wehrmacht. So Swedens "neutralitetspolitik" is also prominently discussed in Swedish schools. Here is an overview of the large debate about tvångssteriliseringarna mostly in DN (Swedens largest newspaper) in 1997 and later [2]. Here is a documentary from Sveriges Radio from 2006 [3] about the forced sterilisations. It didn't take many minutes to find any of these sources. [0] https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/steriliseringspolitiken-i-sverige# https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/steriliseringspoliti... [1] https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/historia/det-korta-1900-talet/sverige-under-andra-varldskriget# https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/historia/det-korta-1900-... [2] https://www.levandehistoria.se/sites/default/files/wysiwyg_media/bilder_och_dokument_steriliseringsfragan.pdf https://www.levandehistoria.se/sites/default/files/wysiwyg_m... [3] https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/94014 https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/94014

Ma8ee 5y ago

Here are some resources currently used in Swedish schools about the forced sterilisation [0]. In the section about Sweden during the Second World War, there is a prominent section about Swedish "eftergiftspolitik" [1]. The second paragraph in the WWII article is about how Sweden sold iron ore to the Germans and how important that was to the Wehrmacht. So Swedens "neutralitetspolitik" is also prominently discussed in Swedish schools. Here is an overview of the large debate about tvångssteriliseringarna mostly in DN (Swedens largest newspaper) in 1997 and later [2]. Here is a documentary from Sveriges Radio from 2006 [3] about the forced sterilisations. It didn't take many minutes to find any of these sources. [0] https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/steriliseringspolitiken-i-sverige# https://www.so-rummet.se/fakta-artiklar/steriliseringspoliti... [1] https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/historia/det-korta-1900-talet/sverige-under-andra-varldskriget# https://www.so-rummet.se/kategorier/historia/det-korta-1900-... [2] https://www.levandehistoria.se/sites/default/files/wysiwyg_media/bilder_och_dokument_steriliseringsfragan.pdf https://www.levandehistoria.se/sites/default/files/wysiwyg_m... [3] https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/94014 https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/94014