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Among Prisoners of War, North
of the Arctic Circle
Norway and Denmark were free — now at last
the Swedish relief organizations could start
implementing the first point of their post-war program : to
bring relief to our Scandinavian sister nations. The
first task I was given after I finished my mission
in Germany was to go to Oslo.
The Swedish ”Aid to Norway organization” had
carried on extensive activities in that country during
the war. For the most part its work consisted of
distributing so called ”Swedish soup” to thousands
of children. These activities, Which as far as could
be judged, had really been of great importance,
would of course be continued. Nevertheless, when I
arrived in Oslo on May sixteenth, I was eager to see
if some other form of Swedish aid might not
be needed. It was most important to contact the
Norwegian officials as soon as possible, as they,
together with the Allied authorities, were on the
point of drafting a program for their activities in
the medical and welfare fields for the next few years.
I arrived in Oslo on an Aktiebolaget Aerotransport
plane, one of the first Swedish aircraft to land on a
Norwegian airfield after the liberation. Fornebu’s
Airport was commanded by men of the Norwegian
resistance movement, handsome boys who gave the
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