Swedish iron ore was an important economic and military factor in the European theatre of World War II, as Sweden was the main contributor of iron ore...
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Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during World War II. When the war began on 1 September 1939, the fate of Sweden was unclear. But by a combination...
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The Iron Ore Line (Swedish: Malmbanan) is a 398-kilometre (247 mi) long railway line between Riksgränsen and Boden in Norrbotten County, Sweden, owned...
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not, unlike France, have significant iron ore mines. Swedish iron-ore industry during World War II Minette (ore) Berger, Françoise (21 December 2009)...
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1.2 Mt of iron ore and 2.1 Mt of steel. By comparison, Great Britain produced 224.3 Mt of coal, 11.9 Mt of crude oil, 17.7 Mt of iron ore, and 13.0 Mt...
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harmed during World War II, the United States iron and steel industry reached its maximum world importance during and just after World War II. In 1945...
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troop transports, via Swedish railroads, between Germany and Norway. Throughout the war, Sweden supplied Germany with iron ore, which they desperately...
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the Swedish government, Sweden exported iron ore to supply Nazi Germany's war industry via the Norwegian port of Narvik. The German war industries' dependence...
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the Swedish economy for several centuries. Sweden today is one of the largest sources of iron ore in Europe, with approximately 90% of Europe's iron and...
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great iron ore deposits in northern Sweden and the long seacoast that would preclude a blockade of the sort that hurt Germany in the First World War. Predicting...
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The economy of Sweden is a highly developed export-oriented economy, aided by timber, hydropower, and iron ore. These constitute the resource base of...
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production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the...
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Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from...
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Bethlehem Steel (redirect from Bethlehem Iron Company)
to the recovery of the post-World War II recovery of the iron ore industry in northern Sweden. Following end of World War II, the Bethlehem Steel plant...
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Economy of Nazi Germany (redirect from Economy of Germany during World War II)
process domestic iron ores from Salzgitter, as the first step in a general effort to increase German steel production in preparation for war. It produced...
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LKAB (category Iron ore mining companies)
corporation. LKAB sponsors Swedish cross-country skiers Marcus Hellner and Charlotte Kalla. Swedish iron ore during World War II "Klart: Anders Borg blir...
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Plan R 4 (category Military operations directly affecting Sweden during World War II)
been drawn up during the proposed Anglo-French intervention in the Winter War. Germany did not have a sufficient domestic supply of iron ore, which is used...
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Axis powers (redirect from Axis states of World War II)
also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany...
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Kiruna (redirect from Kiruna, Sweden)
about the presence of iron in the two hills. The ore became better known after it was reported by Mangi, a Sámi man, in 1736 to Swedish authorities that had...
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in the steel industry and their effects on the German economy as a whole was the prohibition against importing high-grade Swedish iron ore. Until that...
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of iron (from eastern Sweden) that once came from Gdańsk. Forest iron—iron from the English Forest of Dean, where haematite ore enabled tough iron to...
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import commodities, often derived from the widely available raw materials iron ore and wood. An industrial expansion in the latter half of the 19th century...
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Nazi Germany (redirect from Military history of Germany during World War II)
blockade, imports into Germany declined by 80 per cent. To safeguard Swedish iron ore shipments to Germany, Hitler ordered the invasion of Denmark and Norway...
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The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific...
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Operation Weserübung (category Military operations directly affecting Sweden during World War II)
import of iron ore from the northern Swedish mining district, and much of that ore was shipped through the northern Norwegian port of Narvik during the winter...
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Germany by cutting off shipments of Swedish iron ore, which they calculated would seriously weaken German war industry. The British Ministry of Economic...
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personal union with Sweden under the Swedish crown, which lasted until 1905. The 1814 campaign was the last time Sweden was at war. The Swedish East India Company...
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Narvik (town) (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
early years of World War II and the town became a focal point of the Norwegian Campaign. In 1939, Germany's war industry depended upon iron ore mined in Kiruna...
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Swedish share of Germany's total consumption of iron may have amounted to 43% during the period of 1933–43. It may also be likely that "Swedish ore formed...
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mining industry of Cyprus is synonymous with copper extraction which began around 4,000 BC. Copper dominates the mining sector along with mining of iron pyrite...
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