Info on the top lady & statue: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/woman-nazi-handbag-sweden-1985/
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Reading the sources, it primarily sounds like she was embarrassed of looking like an old lady in the photo, and afraid of Nazis striking back at her and her family.
One of the sources is her husband's coworker who said, "Danuta was mentally ill, but she had a solid hatred of Nazis as a Pole. She probably got caught up in the hateful atmosphere that was whipped up against the NRP-demonstrators in Växjö."
I don't care for how that's phrased, both in that he's speculating about her and that he seems to think you need some kind of personal grudge in order to oppose fascism.
If there's a source saying she regretted the action in itself, I missed it.
e: I was mistaken about that quote. It's from the article, but it's not attributed as a direct quote from the coworker. Swedish doesn't always use quotation marks, so I read it as a direct quote mistakenly, but it lacks a dash at the start of the paragraph. Without knowing the original I can't be sure how much the author is paraphrasing or speculating.
I can let you know that there is a lot of white and sane-washing of nazi ideology in Sweden today. The nazi party is literally the largest party in Sweden and could even achieve a majority vote in this fall's elections. Yes, you read that right.
It says that it's from the 2015 documentary. It's linked, but not transcribed. I've not listened to it yet so I can't say either way.
Were it me, I could see myself regretting the general event (händelsen), and the whole thing around it. Don't think I'd regret punching a nazi. They have it coming.
I unfortunately can't listen to it myself, so I just went off the text under it and the Expressen article about it. (I can hear, but my brain doesn't cooperate at listening.) I can't understand why they don't just transcribe the entries.
Relevant: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7424380
Yeah I was looking for a transcription because I'm not quite in the mood to sit and listen to a documentary right now, but I might tomorrow.
Edit: that article kind of pisses me off. "We don't get money to make our content accessible."
We all pay taxes for that content, including deaf people. They should have equal access to it.
Granted this could be a right-wingers thing. I think they restricted how detailed SVT can report on things because "state owned media would unfairly compete with private media otherwise." Fucking bollocks.