World War 2 in Norway, part 1

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A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945

Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that. 

Visit J.L. Oakley’s website: JLOakley.com.

Maps

The initial German invasion on 9 April 1940, starting with the major cities on the coast.
Another view of the invasion. Note the relative proximity of Bergen to the Shetland Islands.

Historical photos

The Altmark Incident: Norwegians help bring German dead ashore.
German soldiers land at Oslo, 9 April 1940
German soldiers in Trondheim, 1940
The Wehrmacht rolls into Oslo, April 1940.
Vikrun Quisling, second from right, with NS supporters.
German cruiser Blucher sinks outside Oslo harbour.

King Haakon VII (left) and at his coronation with Queen Maud, 1906.

Left: King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and Major General of the Norwegian Army, Hans Reidar Holtermann in Scotland during the war.

Norwegian refugees fleeing to Sweden.
Norwegian fishing boat off the coast, circa 1941.
Norwegian ship Kosmos II, built in 1931, one of the largest whalers ever made, sunk by a German u-boat in 1940.
Vidkun Quisling
Josef Terboven
Reichskommissar for Occupied Norwegian Territories Josef Terboven (centre); Quisling is in a suit on the right.
German soldiers burn a Norwegian village.
Kirkenes in far northern Norway burned by German army.
Food ration queue in Oslo during the occupation.

Books

Hitler’s Northern Utopia
Gold Run
Snow Treasure

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