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  Namsos campaign
Norway was at peace in April 1940 when it was suddenly attacked by naval, air and military forces from Nazi Germany.
Germany did not have a sufficient domestic supply of iron ore, so shipments from Sweden were essential for the production of tanks, guns, ships, rail cars, trucks and other implements of war.
The British Admiralty was investigating the possiblitiy of introducing a Royal Navy fleet into the Baltic Sea in the spring of 1940, to interdict German seaborne trade during the summer months in that inland sea, Project Catherine.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/na/namsos_campaign.html   (3410 words)

  
 History of the country where and during which period a collectible item was issued
The Treaty said that Germany was the main responsible country for the begining of World War I. Germany lost also large parts of its country like West Prussia, North Slesvig, the corridore to East Prussia, Danzig, Eupen and Malmedy, parts of Oberschlesien, Memel and so on.
In the 1930s Hitler and his Nazis were very successful solving some problems and conquer the whole life of Germany with their ideology.
Germany's broke the Munich Pact by occupying the Czech part of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
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 World War II | Deutsche Welle
Norway was one of the center stages of the program and the Nazis set up 10 maternity homes there.
Because Nazi Germany saw Norway as a country filled with "blood brothers and sisters," the occupation of the country was generally much less harsh than in other places.
Later, Norway's Ministry of Social Affairs had him classified as retarded and sent him to a mental institution where he was beaten by guards and had to listen to psychotic screams of fellow patients.
www6.dw-world.de /en/2098.php   (1274 words)

  
 Children of Shame – Norway’s Dark Secret | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 02.12.2001
Born to a German nazi officer and a Norwegian mother during the German occupation of Norway, Anni-Frid belonged to the "children of shame" – unwanted after the Germans lost the war.
Being an illegitimate child of a Nazi, her grandmother took her to Sweden to escape mistreatment - children of enemies were ostracized in post-war Norway.
The aim of the programme was to entrust leadership of Norway to these "Aryans" after the war, or to have them and their mothers move to Germany to bring more Nordic blood into the German Reich.
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 ::The Occupation of Norway::
The occupation of Norway in the spring of 1940 by Nazi Germany was swift and decisive.
The speed with which Germany conquered Norway was to set a marker for the attack on Western Europe.
Britain's failure in Norway was to also have major political consequences with the resignation of the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who was replaced by Winston Churchill.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /occupation_of_norway.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Norway Europe - Pictures, Travel, Sites and Maps
Norway remained neutral in World War I and proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of World War II.
In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that was to last for more than four centuries.
Norway opted to stay out of the EU during a referendum in November 1994.
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 Norway's 'war children' go to court - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent ...
You would never normally link the legendary Swedish pop group Abba with the Second World War and Germany's occupation of Norway, but Frida Lyndstad, it's dark-haired lead singer, was fathered illegitimately by a German officer while Norway was under Nazi control, making her one of thousands of Norway's 'war children'.
But as soon as the Occupation ended, there was a dramatic reversal of fortune, as these 10,000 or so children became the objects of hatred.
Elisabeth says her mother was stripped of all state support for her half-German child and was forced to send her to a home.
www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/nor070307   (749 words)

  
 Knut Hamsun Online - was Hamsun a Nazi?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hamsun favored the rise of Germany in general, was anti-anglosaxon and anti-american, as well as anti-modernistic.
Hamsun spoke with a pro-german voice for 4 decades, supported the German occupation, for which he was sentenced to a fine.
But he was aqquitted of being a nazi.
www.hamsun.dk /uk/hamsun_nazisme.html   (758 words)

  
 Introductions to selected countries and periods of time
As Norway is the initiator of the project and self criticism constitutes the best foundation for criticising others, the history of censorship in Norway naturally has been included.
In addition, Norway – unlike many other countries – has complete records of all suppressed books through the history of printing, as well as complete records of censored books and illegal publishing through the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II.
Selected countries are: Spain, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Japan, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Malawi, Russia, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, USA and the Vatican State.
www.beaconforfreedom.org /about_database/countries.html   (808 words)

  
 H-Soz-u-Kult / Termine / Konf: Occupation and Remembrance in Northern and Central Europe - Falstad/Levanger, Norway
The main activities of the centre are education, research and remembrance on the history of the Nazi Camps in Norway during the Second World War and education on Modern Human Rights issues.
In the case of Germany, the main focus will be on coming to terms with the Nazi Past.
"The Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands", Johannes Houwink ten Cate, Professor and Director Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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