Seriously?! That was hardly a concern.The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 1:24 pmI wonder if "Permittenttrafik" saved Russian lives?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_o ... and_Sweden
Russia (or more correctly, the Soviet Union) was at war with Finland!
Sweden’s top priorities in WW2 were basically:
1) Try to keep Sweden out of it
2) Help Finland
3) Help Norway and Denmark
The reasoning behind allowing German soldiers stationed in Norway pass through Sweden on their way to leave in Germany and on their return to Norway was mainly the first. But if it incidently helped the Finns in their fight for survival, all the better.

I’ve said this before; if Sweden had joined the war on the allied side, we would have become allied with The Soviet Union, and they were at war with Finland. At the same time we had nearly 10,000 Swedish volunteers fighting for Finland and we had ”lent them” one third of our fighter aircraft and four bomb planes. Russia’s attempts to swallow Finland pretty much ensured we couldn’t join the allied side. We did not want Finland to become part of the Soviet Union.
Thus Russian casualties were the least of our concerns.