- The building has had many names over the years, but he himself called it the functional house, says architect Christer Rosenlöf.
Christer Rosenlöf became fascinated by the place as a child.
He still remembers how from the back seat of his parents' car he saw the builder Persson in the process of his eternity project during the first years of the 1960s.
- There is something special about people who go their own way and dare to create on their own.
I still think so, says Rosenlöf as he shows around SVT at Söderto fortress.
Reinforced concrete against the Russian
As a new student at the architectural education in Lund, he read an article in the newspaper Lundagård about Karl-Göran Persson and the building - and decided on his feet to buy it.
The article showed that Karl-Göran Persson had been arrested for fear of the Russians after reading the official brochure "If the war comes".
With the help of endless tubs of cement reinforced with scrap iron, he began to turn his small croft into a fortress.
The wall to the east, the direction from which the Soviet army should reasonably attack, was particularly powerful.
Place for the king
Inside the fortress there was room for all the villagers - and also a special room for King Gustav VI Adolf, who according to Karl-Göran Persson could probably also need protection from the Red Army.
- It is of course easy to dismiss him as a weirdo, but the fascinating thing is how well he built - without drawings and without helpers.
At the time, this was a really handsome, whitewashed building in a classic functional style, says Christer Rosenlöf.
Watch the video about Söderto Fortress, the original Karl-Göran Persson's indelible "functional fort" for protection against a war that never came.