During WWII
Sweden supported Norwegian resistance, and in 1943 helped rescue Danish Jews from deportation to concentration camps. Toward the end of the war, Sweden began to play a role in humanitarian efforts and many refugees, among them many Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe, were saved partly because of the Swedish involvement in rescue missions at the internment camps and partly because Sweden served as a haven for refugees, primarily from the Nordic countries and the Baltic states.
And me thinks I'll be holding off on buying that Schmidt Rubin K31 Carbine (7.5 x 55 Swiss) for a while.
Swiss means ‘from Switzerland’, not Sweden (that’d be ‘Swede’).