Stockholm was among the most romantic places to be in Europe during World War II, according to Pat DiGeorge.

It's where her parents, Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson Allen, met in 1944, she said in an interview with Newsweek.

Their story is one of the great romances of World War II. Between the uncertainty and global conflict, many soldiers, like her father, made lifelong connections during their time abroad. DiGeorge chronicled their love story in her book Liberty Lady: A True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden and spoke with Newsweek about how the war brought her parents together in the Swedish capital.

Before her venture to Sweden, Hedvig Johnson Allen had recently graduated from secretarial school and was working in Washington, D.C. After a brief stint at IRS, which she

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