Arklöv apparently had an identity crisis as a young boy and tried scrubbing his skin to make it white. As a child he also tried "colouring" his skin white at school by using flour.[8] In his teens he developed a strong interest in Nazism and World War II. He has later said that he became a Nazi, among several reasons, because he "was lonely and full of hate" and "identified with those who were the losers" in the war, as he "felt as one" himself.
Prisoners in the camps called Arklöv "the Black Devil" because of his black fascist uniform and skin-colour. When civilians were forced under torture to humiliate themselves by Arklöv but did not obey him, other guards would step in and tell the victims to "do as he says, or he'll kill you, he is totally insane" and laugh.[14]
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