Boden FortressBoden Fortress (Bodens fästning) is a modern fortress consisting of several major and minor forts and fortifications surrounding the city of Boden, Norrbotten, in northern Sweden. The fortress was originally intended to stop or delay attacks from the east or coastal assaults, which at the time of construction meant Russian attacks launched from Finland. It was primarily the expansion of the railway net in Norrland, which in turn was a consequence of the rising importance of the northern iron ore fields, that led to the increased strategic value of northern Sweden and the construction of the fortress.
Blut und Bodenvignette|Devise du Reichsnährstand sous l'aigle du parti NSDAP et sur la croix gammée avec une épée et un épi. L'idéologie Blut und Boden (« le sang et le sol », en abrégé : BluBo) considère l'ascendance (Blut, le sang) et le sol (en tant que source de nourriture par l'agriculture et en tant qu'habitat naturel), et par extension la paysannerie comme origine raciale essentielle du peuple allemand. Elle s'est construite à partir des théories racistes et pangermanistes qui se sont développées à la fin du en Allemagne, et a constitué un élément central de l'idéologie nationale-socialiste.
Alexander BodenAlexander Boden (28 May 1913 – 18 December 1993) was a philanthropist, industrialist (manufacturing chemist), publisher (including education author and researcher), founder of the Boden Chair of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney, a Fellow Australian Academy of Science 1982, a founder of Bioclone Australia, Hardman Chemicals and Science Press and was awarded Leighton Medal of Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1986.
