Abstract
This article is based on Swedish and West and East German archive material, and provides corroboration for the idea that Sweden was not truly neutral during the Cold War. Unlike Finland, which treated both German states with scrupulous equality below the threshold of diplomatic recognition, the Swedish government sent a diplomatic representative to Bonn within a few months of the constitution of the Federal Republic while refusing recognition to the GDR until the end of 1972. The article analyses the reasons behind Sweden’s decision largely to adopt the Western attitude to the ‘German question’.
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