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- The Swedish baron "Blix" - Bror von Blixen-Finecke (1886-1946) - once married to Karen Blixen, was an adventurer, womanizer, successful safari guide and failed coffee farmer in Kenya. Among his friends he counted Prince Wilhelm, the Prince of Wales and Ernest Hemingway. In the spring of 1940, he ran an American field hospital in Norway, where German troops were advancing.
- Somewhere in Sweden, our conscripted soldiers were waiting for the German war machine. Swedish artists were mobilized and sent to the locations. - The need for entertainment was great, says Alice Babs, who in the winter of 1941, aged 17, celebrated Christmas with the soldiers in a barrack in the Stockholm archipelago. The Swedish soldiers was offered entertainment of sorts - song and dance, drama, comedy, ballet and mime.