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| Konungariket Sverige
Kingdom of Sweden
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Motto: (Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ² |
Anthem: Du gamla, Du fria
Thou ancient, Thou free
Royal anthem: Kungssången
The Song of the King |
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Capital
(and largest city) |
Stockholm
59°21′N, 18°4′E |
| Official languages |
Swedish ³ (de facto) |
| Demonym |
Swedish |
| Government |
Constitutional monarchy |
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King |
Carl XVI Gustaf |
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Prime Minister |
Fredrik Reinfeldt |
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Speaker of
the Riksdag |
Per Westerberg |
| Consolidation |
prehistoric |
| EU accession |
January 1, 1995 |
| Area |
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Total |
449,964 km² (55th)
173,732 sq mi |
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Water (%) |
8.7 |
| Population |
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2007 estimate |
9,142,8174 (88th) |
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1990 census |
8,587,353 |
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Density |
20/km² (185th)
52/sq mi |
| GDP (PPP) |
2006 estimate |
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Total |
$291 billion (34th) |
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Per capita |
$32,200 (18th) |
| GDP (nominal) |
2006 estimate |
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Total |
$385 billion (19th) |
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Per capita |
$42,400 (9th) |
| Gini (2000) |
25 (low) (4th) |
| HDI (2004) |
▲ 0.951 (high) (4th) |
| Currency |
Swedish krona (SEK) |
| Time zone |
CET (UTC+1) |
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Summer (DST) |
CEST (UTC+2) |
| Internet TLD |
.se5 |
| Calling code |
+46 |
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För Sverige - I tiden has been adopted by Carl XVI Gustaf as his personal motto. |
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See H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf |
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The Swedish language is the national language. Five other languages are officially recognized as minority languages. |
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Population in the country, counties and municipalities on 31/12/2006 and Population Change in 2006. Statistiska centralbyrån. Retrieved on 2007-04-21. |
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The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states. The .nu domain is another commonly used TLD ("nu" means "now" in Swedish). |
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[edit] Stalingrad Madonna
The book, called "Stalingrad Madonna" by Martin Kruse, was based on the letters, which were written by another prisoner, officer and doctor Kurt Reuber. In December of 1942, on Christmas eve, he drew Madonna with a child on a Soviet map and hung the drawing in a bunker. It was written on the drawing: "Light, life, love, Christmas in a boiler, Fortress Stalingrad, 1942." Why did the German officer make that drawing at that period of the war? As it is known, the state of German troops left much to be desired by that time. Hitler's commands convinced Friedrich Paulus, the Commander of the 6th Army, not to capitulate, but to confide in the combatant value of German soldiers. Kurt Reuber: "But what was the combatant value of the 6th Army like until the beginning of 1943? Soldiers had only 25 cartridges a day for one person. Their daily ration was a piece of horse-flesh and 100 grams of bread." The newspaper Roter Stern wrote in 1943 that a German soldier died every seven seconds - either of hunger, exhaustion or cold.
The author of the book believes that Kurt Reuber was a Catholic priest, and it was his painting, which depicted Madonna with a child, that assisted in the capitulation of Paulus's army. That was a long-awaited event even for Germans themselves. Kurt Reuber died in the prisoner-of-war camp in Yelabuga on January of 1944. His Stalingrad Madonna drawing was recognized as an icon in 1990 in Great Britain. "Reconciliation and Forgiveness, Light and Life" - these are the words that are written on another variant of the drawing, which was made in 1943 on Christmas eve, in Yelabuga.
The book "Stalingrad Madonna" was published in Germany. A copy of the book arrived in Yelabuga as a gift for Tatiana Nechayeva, who worked as a chief doctor at the prisoners camp during 1943-1948. Baroness Olhausen wrote: "For compassion and kindness towards all German prisoners of war on behalf of all mothers and women of the world, to a kind woman Tatiana." The baroness called Tatiana the Stalingrad Madonna.
Tatiana Nechayeva graduated from the Kazan Medical Institute in 1941. She was a captain of the medical service. In 1952 she founded the anti-TB hospital in Yelabuga, where she worked until 1990. Tatiana is rewarded with the Red Flag Order and other medals, including a decoration "For the Victory Over Germany." Tatiana Nechayeva died in 1999.
She recollected: "Prisoners of war were brought to the camp in a horrible condition. They were dirty, exhausted, lousy, sick, they did not look like humans. It was hard to imagine that all those people felt conquerors just a few days ago." Doctors had to separate sick German soldiers from healthy ones, to wash and feed them, to cut their hair and give clean clothing to them. That was a very hard work to do, taking into consideration the fact that the camp experienced a strong lack of personnel. Doctors had to work 24 hours a day. In the beginning, German prisoners were rather cautious: they thought that they would be killed in the camp, so they did not want to go to a bathroom, sick officers did not allow doctors to make injections to them, they did not take drugs either. "Slowly but surely, but they changed their attitude to us. Doctors did not perceive them as prisoners of war, they perceived them as people, who needed help. In spite of the fact that we all suffered from the war, from Germans, we did not lose the feeling of humanity, we found strength in us to overcome the hostility against those, who caused so much trouble and grief to us," Tatiana remembered.
Prisoners chopped and prepared firewood to heat the camp in winter, they cleaned their rooms and cooked meals for the whole camp. "I do not remember, how much it cost for the USSR to maintain each prisoner. I can just say that prisoner's meals were a lot better in comparison with ours during the war. There was a committee at the camp, Liberated Germany, which was headed by anti-fascist Reichstag deputies Walter Ulbricht, Wilhelm Pik, and other German communists," Tatiana Nechayeva said.
"I am proud of living in Yelabuga," former prisoner of war German Rentsch said. Almost all prisoners were sent to their homeland in 1945-1946.[1]
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