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Baltic Sea operations of World War II

  • Swedish iron-ore industry during World War IIIn 1939, Nazi Germany received 22 million tons of iron ore from various sources. Of that total, Sweden supplied 9 million tons annually.
  • Siege of LeningradAdolf Hitler declared that Leningrad must die of starvation in a speech at Munich on the 8th of November 1941. The German High Command viewed the capture of…