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What Scandinavia Can Do!

This blueprint by Lutheran Bishop of Oslo Eivind Berggrav is an example of a strategy that some ecumenists still employed shortly before the Second World War broke out: trying to negotiate with Hitler’s regime and demand that the neutrality of the Scandinavian countries be respected. Meanwhile, however, realizing that these neutral countries had become a strategic target eyed by Germany, Berggrav also implored the other Scandinavian countries to cooperate in a closer political setting.

For the blueprint click here.

The blueprint is courtesy of the WCC Archives in Geneva and republished here with permission.

 

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