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the
Battle of Dombås
was a
German
attempt during the 1940
Norwegian Campaign
at using
Fallschirmjägers
to cut rail and road links in central
Norway
?
the Norwegian coastal steamer
SS
Barøy
replaced a vessel sunk by the
Royal Navy
during the 1940
Norwegian Campaign
and was herself sunk by the
Fleet Air Arm
the next year?
because of its total lack of
anti-tank guns
, the
Norwegian Army
was forced to employ
Model 1901
field guns
(pictured)
against
German
Panzers
during the 1940
Norwegian Campaign
?
Skorpa prisoner of war camp
was the main Norwegian
POW camp
in
Northern Norway
during the 1940
Norwegian Campaign
, holding some 500
German
military and civilian prisoners?
Fredrik Kayser
volunteered for the
Winter War
, served in the
Norwegian Campaign
, and helped sabotage the
Nazi nuclear programme
?
HNoMS
Honningsvåg
was a German fishing trawler captured in the
Norwegian Campaign
and served the
Royal Norwegian Navy
throughout
World War II
?
Florence J. Harriman
, an
American
socialite
,
suffragist
,
diplomat
and
author
, was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the
Norwegian royal family
when
Germany invaded Norway
in 1940?
Facts on topics related to Norwegian Campaign
Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
29
Norwegian
civilians were shot in reprisal by the
Nazi regime in Norway
following the
Norwegian resistance
's assassination of police chief
Karl Marthinsen
in February of 1945?
Norwegian
trade unionist
Ludvik Buland
, sentenced to death by the
Nazi authorities
in 1941, was later
reprieved
, only to die in a
Nacht und Nebel
camp four years later?
Kompani Linge
's
Oslo Detachment
, a subgroup of the
Special Operations Executive
, was the dominant sabotage group in
occupied
Oslo between May and September 1944?
Alf Whist
, Minister of Industry and Shipping in the
Quisling regime
, had no political experience prior to joining the
Fascist party
during
Nazi Germany's occupation
in the 1940s?
Carl Fredriksens Transport
, an operation that saved 1,000 Norwegians during the
Nazi occupation of Norway
, was code-named after King
Haakon VII
's original name?
Endre Berner
,
Bjørn Føyn
,
Carl Jacob Arnholm
,
Eiliv Skard
,
Harald K. Schjelderup
and
Anatol Heintz
were among the professors at the
University of Oslo
who were arrested by
Nazis
during
World War II
?
Erling Sandberg
, installed as Finance Minister by
Reichskommissariat
when
Nazis occupied Norway
, was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
Francis Bull
, a board member of the
National Theatre
when
Nazi Germany occupied Norway
in 1940, was arrested in 1941 and spent three years in a
concentration camp
?
Hans Kristian Seip
, the father of
Jens Arup Seip
, also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the
Nazi occupants in Norway
in 1941?
Johannes Andenæs
, himself a
concentration camp
prisoner
of Nazis
during
WWII
, criticized the harshness of the
legal process against Nazis in Norway
after the war?
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain
pilot
Paul Egger
was later awarded the
Knight's Cross
as a
Tiger tank
commander in the
Waffen-SS
?
Flight Lieutenant
Eric Lock
was the most successful British
ace
during the
Battle of Britain
, shooting down 16.5 German aircraft over the course of the 17-week long battle?
in 2010, the
Cotswold Air Show
commemorated the 70th anniversary of the
Battle of Britain
, featuring aircraft such as the
Supermarine Spitfire
and the
Hawker Hurricane
?
the
RAF Memorial Flight
Spitfire
Mk IIa P7350 is the only
surviving Spitfire
from the
Battle of Britain
still flying?
the
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
contains the world's oldest airworthy survivor of the
Battle of Britain
, alongside ten other historic aircraft - two of which fought over
Normandy
on
D-Day
?
Battle of France
pockets of resistance
created during the
German
invasions of
France
in 1940 and
Yugoslavia
in 1941 developed into
resistance movements
that tied down several German divisions?
René Olry
, the commander of the
French
Army of the Alps during the
Battle of France
(1940), was a
polytechnicien
?
the 1940
Battle of France
forced 72-year-old
British
engineer
William Binnie
to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a
collier
?
Norwegian resistance movement
29
Norwegian
civilians were shot in reprisal by the
Nazi regime in Norway
following the
Norwegian resistance
's assassination of police chief
Karl Marthinsen
in February of 1945?
Max Manus
referred to the release of
Norwegian resistance
member
Kolbein Lauring
from
Grini concentration camp
in 1943 as a "miraculous mistake" by the
German
authorities?
Milorg
resistance
member
Osmund Faremo
later served as member of the
national parliament
and local
mayor
for the
Norwegian Labour Party
?
Norwegian
historian
Tore Pryser
has criticised the perceived importance of
Norwegian resistance
members during
World War II
?
Norwegian resistance
fighter
Gregers Gram
conducted several
sabotage
missions together with
Max Manus
, before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
anti-Nazi resistance fighter
Joar Olsen
once escaped apprehension by claiming that he drove a
Red Cross
truck?
Carl Platou
was dismissed from the
Ministry of Justice and the Police
for listening to a
Norwegian resistance
radio broadcast
in his office?
Edvard Welle-Strand
, father of the
anti-Nazi resistance
fighter
Erling Welle-Strand
, was an
anti-Semitic
writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
Gunvald Tomstad
, a
double agent
for
Norwegian resistance
in
World War II
, acted as a local "ideologist" of the Fascist party
Nasjonal Samling
?
Jan Birger Jansen
,
Johan Scharffenberg
and
Sven Arntzen
, all with background in the
Norwegian resistance movement
, were later members of the
National Association for Referendum
?
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