The Swedish-German Association, of which Sweden’s Queen Silvia has been a patron since the 1980s, has been accused of whitewashing its Nazi past.
The association allowed its previous chairman, Gunnar Edlund, 83, to write a chapter in its 100th jubilee book, despite his ties to the far-right.
Academics told a Swedish investigative documentary team that Edlund had omitted details about the association’s ties to the Nazis during the war.
Posing as a student, a reporter recorded Edlund saying: “Every individual, including Hitler, should be judged according to their faults and their virtues and not as an evil monster.”