STOCKHOLM - The Swedish foreign ministry said yesterday it would look into allegations that the country's industry supplied parts for Nazi Germany's deadly V-2 rockets, which killed thousands of people in Belgium and England. The World Jewish Congress on Friday released a letter in which a New York port official told the US secretary of state, Edward Stettinius, that an American ship had discovered V-2 rocket parts labelled "made in Sweden".
The V2, according to Winston Churchill's memoirs, killed 2,724 people in England and injured 6,476 during seven months in 1944. Some 1,300 were fired at England and several hundred were fired in 1944 against Belgium. Sweden, which was neutral during the second World War, had close trade links with Nazi Germany and allowed German troops to pass through the country by train on their way to and from neighbouring Norway, which was occupied by the Nazis.