Stockholm - The Swedish government could face thousands of legal claims for compensation because of a Nazi-style campaign of forced sterilisation of women that historians say has been hushed up for years.
Swedes have been shocked over past days by revelations from a journalist, Maciej Zaremba, that Swedish governments sterilised 60,000 women to rid Swedish society of "inferior" racial types and to encourage Aryan features.
Mr Zaremba, whose revelations have been published for four days by the liberal newspaper Dagens Nyheter, said Sweden, Norway and Denmark pioneered "racial cleansing sciences" after the first World War. In Sweden, the sterilisations began in 1935, peaking in 1946, and were not stopped until 1976.