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WW II – 5
[This is the fifth and final of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] Previous posts in this series: WW II – 1 WW II – 2 WW II – 3 WW II – 4 My … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, childhood, Danderyd, father, grandmother, grandparents, Sweden
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WW II – 4
[This is the fourth of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] Previous posts in this series: WW II – 1 WW II – 2 WW II – 3 Needless to say, my life in neutral Sweden … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, appendectomy, ‘WW II’, ’nervous breakdown’, ’personal experience of WWII’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, surgery, Sweden
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WW II – 3
[This is the third of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] By bleak and harsh contrast, my recollections of grammar school in the Sweden of the 1940s are borderline nightmares. I recall going to enrollment … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, ’Prussian schooling’, ’sadistic teachers’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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WW II – 2
[This is the second of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] In the neighborhood where we lived there was the sad case of a girl (she was probably in her early teens at the time) who … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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WW II – 1
[This is the first of five postings about my growing up in Sweden during WWII.] My earliest memories of Danderyd (a northern suburb of Stockholm then as now) and life in the new house my Mother’s parents had just finished … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, ‘WW II’, ’personal experience of WW II’, ’womanly perfidy’, childhood, Danderyd, grandparents, Sweden
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African Beginnings
On a soft August evening in 1935 two lovers moved indolently arm-in-arm along the thronged Calle Alameda in Málaga. As was the Spanish custom, they had finished a light meal of ten-o’clock tapas and local wine in a small restaurant … Continue reading
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Tagged 'African beginnings', 'formative influences', 'German invasion of Norway', birth, deracination, fascism, Franco, grandparents, Norway, Sweden, WWII
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