The Local - Sweden followed Nazi marriage laws

For ten years up until the end of the Second World War, Swedish priests applied nazi race rules to marriage. Swedes who wanted to marry Germans were forced to prove that they were not Jewish. And 'racially impure' marriages could be annulled by Swedish courts, according to evidence presented by the Swedish Research Council on Tuesday. Since 2001, two research programmes have explored various aspects of "Swedish fear, horror and fascination, but also kinship within Swedish science, culture and church life with nazism and Nazi Germany". With a budget of 29 million kronor, the programmes have produced surprising results about recent Swedish history. Following recommendations from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, priests in the Swedish Church applied certain German laws from 1937 onwards, reported Dagens Nyheter. Any Swede who wanted to marry an arian German was forced to sign an affirmation stating that none of the German's grandparents were Jewish.