Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization
Independent auxiliary defence organization in Sweden / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization[lower-alpha 1] (Swedish: Svenska Lottakåren (SLK) communicatively, lit. 'The Swedish Lotta Corps', and Riksförbundet Sveriges lottakårer juridically, lit. 'national federation of Sweden's lotta corps'[lower-alpha 2])[3] is an independent auxiliary defence organization in Sweden. The organisation is part of the Swedish Total Defence (Totalförsvaret), the national defence strategy of Sweden.
Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization | |
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Svenska Lottakåren S·L·K Riksförbundet Sveriges lottakårer | |
Founded | 1924; 100 years ago (1924) |
Country | Sweden |
Size | 5,000 |
Garrison/HQ | Stockholm |
The organisation was created in 1924 as a Swedish version of the Finnish equivalent organisation Lotta Svärd (created in 1918),[4] which subsequently inspired other Scandinavian and the Baltic states to create their own organisations based on the same principles. These are collectively called "Lotta movements" as the majority of these organisations have adopted the name Lotta as the general designation for organisation members.[5][6][7][8]