The textile industry is booming and hundreds of thousands of young women are working in the factories. Algots sews almost four million garments every year when it is at its best.
The engineer and Nazi Albert Sonntag
But the company is shaken by a scandal when it is revealed that one of the factory managers, Albert Sonntag, is an active Nazi. Albert Sonntag is the engineer who specializes in the conveyor belts. He controls the roller coaster in the factory with an iron hand. At the same time, he is appreciated by many of the young women in the factory because he gives several of them managerial positions.
Algots Johansson’s pro-Nazi sympathies
The Swedish intelligence service keeps Albert Sonntag under surveillance and in the end he is considered a danger to the kingdom and is deported to Germany. Large black headlines on the ballot papers blacken Algot’s reputation. Despite this, Algot Johansson is working to get Albert Sonntag back to the company. He has sympathies at the far end of the right wing and the pro-Nazi Swedish National Union.
Participating part 2
Tuula Virta, worked at Algots in the 60s.
Ulla Wikander, Professor Emeritus of Economic History.
Per-Anders Wadman, journalist.
Reimar Westerlind, business manager in Borås.
Ronny Thorell, worked at Algots.
Göte-David Johansson, grandson of Algot Johansson.
Johannes Daun, historian and industrial antiquarian.
Karin Olsson Lindström, museum educator at Borås Textile Museum.
Gunnel Larsson
A series from P4-Documentary by Cecilia Ohlén.
Producers Ola Hemström and Sofia Kottorp.
Sound mix Olle Sjöström.
The program was made in 2021.
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Source: ICELAND NEWS