Attentatet i Pålsjö skog (Attack in Pålsjö Forest in English) is a 1996 alternate history novel by Hans Alfredson

Hans Alfredson

Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson...

. In the book a group of Swedish anti-fascists blow up a German train passing through Sweden, killing several hundred German soldiers and Eva Braun

Eva Braun

Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich, when she was 17 years old, while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later...

 who was on board. Hitler is infuriated and invades Sweden, which surrenders on May 12, 1941.

The novel uses many real-life characters. Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his...

 is captured by the Germans, but others manage to escape and form an exile government in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. King Gustav V is also captured but abdicates making prince Gustaf VI Adolf

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

Gustaf VI Adolf - Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf - was King of Sweden from October 29, 1950 until his death. His official title was King of Sweden, of the Goths and of the Wends. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden...

, who was already safely in London, king. Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian. He is widely celebrated for his successful efforts to rescue thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust, during the later stages of World War II...

 smuggles Jews out of Sweden. More controversially, the book also mentions who collaborates with the Germans. Author Per Olof Sundman

Per Olof Sundman

Per Olof Sundman was a Swedish writer and politician.Sundman was born in Vaxholm. After World War II, Sundman joined the Centre Party and was elected to the Riksdag....

 and IKEA

IKEA

IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...

 founder Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is a Swedish and the founder of IKEA, a retail company.According to Forbes magazine, as of 2011 he is the 162nd wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of around US$6 billion in 2011...

 lead local SS

Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...

 groups. Fredrik Böök

Fredrik Böök

Martin Fredrik Böök was a Swedish professor of literary history at Lund University 1920-24, a literary critic and writer. He wrote biographies and books on Swedish literature. In 1907, Fredrik married Tora Olsson...

, Sven Hedin

Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works...

, Åke Ohlmarks

Åke Ohlmarks

Åke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of religion.He worked as a Lecturer at the University of Greifswald from 1941 to 1945...

 and many others support the new rulers. Sven Olov Lindholm

Sven Olov Lindholm

Sven Olov Lindholm was a Swedish Nazi leader, active in different Swedish fascist organizations from the 1920s to the 1950s....

 becomes a Quisling

Quisling

Quisling is a term used in reference to fascist and collaborationist political parties and military and paramilitary forces in occupied Allied countries which collaborated with Axis occupiers in World War II, as well as for their members and other collaborators.- Etymology :The term was coined by...

-like leader of the occupied Sweden.

Due to the invasion of Sweden, operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...

 gets delayed by three weeks giving Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

 time to organise a better defence bringing the German downfall sooner. The invasion at Normandy occurs in the spring of 1944. Hitler kills himself in December 1944, and World War II ends on December 28. By then, Sweden has been liberated from the north down as far as Östersund

Östersund

Östersund is an urban area in Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. It is the seat of Östersund Municipality and the capital of Jämtland County. Östersund is located at the shores of Sweden's fifth largest lake, Storsjön, opposite the island Frösön, and is the only city in Jämtland. Östersund is the...

by the British, the Russians and a British-organized exile troop called The Royal Swedish.

In the epilogue it is said that "more than four million Jews were killed". After the war, history returns largely to normal.