Especially with how Sweden’s military stuff is just “Sweden and Germany did a group project”, which is how Sweden got a jet engine, swept wing design was founded by German and Swedish designers, and their tanks was just German stuff but Nordic.
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There was no Swedish SS division, not sure where you get that from. And it’s not exactly strange that Sweden traded with Germany considering that she was entirely surrounded by occupied territories and subjected to a partial blockade. Germany was effectively in full control of Swedish trade.
If you read the history and memoirs of Swedish politicians and the people in general who lived through those times it becomes clear that there was no love lost between Nazi Germany and Sweden.
Edit: BTW, the closest Sweden ever got to joining the war was on the side of the allies towards the very end, because there were a lot of German troops still occupying Norway and nobody was sure if they’d actually surrender. The plan was for the Swedish army force the issue, but the war finally ended before the it became necessary.
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You’re right, I was thinking Estonian and Norwegian SS
I am unsure about how many Swedish fought directly in german army. If I remember correctly germans were not allowed to recruit there so man that would want to join would need to travel out of Sweden some sources say around few hundred or low tousands joined.
-Some swedish officers in SS ^
There were however quite a few Swedish volunteers around 10-20 k that directly fought for Finland aggainst Soviets in ww2 which again suports the change of sides in sim battles. Last thing Sweden would ever do is fight alongside soviets. They were not biggest fans of Germans too but not at scale with soviets. Whole scandinavia was aggainst soviets no matter their relationship with germany.
-Commander of Swedish forces in Finland on the right - general Ernst Linder ^
C.a 200 Swedes fought for Germany. Way, way fewer than the allies, that number in the thousands.
One of the main reasons for Sweden intervening in Norway would be to keep the Soviets out.