Further east, 88 million people see their home regions divided: into Hindu India, and Muslim West and East Pakistan. The United Nations adopts Resolution 181, the plan to partition Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states. Hasan al-Banna, the son of an Egyptian clockmaker, who loathes music, dance, democracy, singing, founds the Muslim Brotherhood. In 1947, George Orwell is in the Jura, writing a book that "grows into one of the most terrifying texts his publisher has ever read" – 1984. Åsbrink, an established journalist and dogged researcher, decided to close in on her target – and piece together the story of his work with the hunted – by reading two Swedish newspapers published in the year 1947, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, from day one to day 365.Īdvertisement From the Cold War to Christian Dior The author Stieg Larsson had already alerted his country – and the world – to the presence of neo-Nazis and a revitalised fascism in Sweden with his journalism, and then, his Millennium trilogy of novels.īut facts about Engdahl proved elusive. Åsbrink thought Engdahl, the founder of Swedish Nazism, would make an excellent subject for a biography. Writer and journalist Elisabeth Åsbrink was researching a Swedish WWII Nazi figure when she found the subject for her book "1947", a survey of the year that shaped the postwar era. Undaunted, he based himself in Malmö after the war and helped thousands of Nazi fugitives from all over Europe melt into the landscape.īut it wasn't just escape these men were set upon they wanted to establish another beach-head for the ideals of Nazi-dom. The Swedish writer had heard vague mentions of a Per Engdahl a man who had been classified as a Nazi by the Swedish Security Service during World War II and had had his passport confiscated. Elisabeth Åsbrink was on the trail of a mysterious Nazi when she fell over the subject of her latest book.
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