About the Siemens Geheimschreiber - G printer - a crypto machine that Hitler's engineers designed in the 30's. The mathematician Arne Beurling at Uppsala University revealed the G-printer's secret.
In the fall of 1944, four ships sailed out of Finnish ports and headed west. On board were not only the core group of Finnish intelligence, but also hundreds of boxes of top-secret material on the Soviet military, as well as technical equipment for advanced signals intelligence. The intention was...
1959 - this is the hot wasp summer, when half of the Swedes stay up 'til three in the morning and listens to the WC match between Ingo and Floyd. Rock-Olga and Rockande Samen are successful and My Fair Lady draws large audiences to the Oscars. Olle Möller is indicted for the murder of Rut Lind...
1954 - this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it and the cargo boat Nedjan goes down with seventeen men. The sooty glasses emerge when the sun is completely eclipsed. And there is competition to look like...
"Damn, such a country!" from 2000, is about Kiruna which had just turned one hundred years old. There is no age for a city, but the past hundred years have been remarkable in many ways. And no other Swedish city has so much of the wild west about it. "Damn what a country!" said one of the very...
Beginning at Bohu's fortress, Hans Villius guides viewers through Norway, a country whose history has often coincided with ours. It is a story not only of the death of Charles XII and Carolines in a blizzard on their way to disaster, but also of the German battleship sunk in the Oslo Fjord and of...
