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To: 21twelve

We have also watched “Bordertown” and enjoyed it too.

We recently watched on Netflix a movie based on a true story of a Norwegian soldier/spy during WWII when Norway was occupied by the Nazi’s. I would absolutely recommend:

“The 12th Man”

Jonathan Reyes Meyers(King Henry VII from the Tudors) plays the head Nazi in Norway.


46 posted on 12/22/2020 6:32:28 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

All of my grandparents were from Norway. My parents would read me “Snow Treasure” to me. About children sledding gold down to the ships to evade the NAZI’s. (True story).

One of my dad’s cousins was a kid in the resistance and he hid in a pile of coal when the NAZI’s came to his home. Similar scene in the book!

My dad asked him years later (1970’s) about what he had done.

“Nope. Nobody knows - not even my wife. They will never know.”

Of course I always imagine him involved in the escape of the gold, or the bombing of the heavy water plant.

Years later he was a very successful business man. He told my dad “We have to register our guns in Norway even now. But that is the FIRST thing the Germans did - was go to the town hall and find all of the gun owners and get their guns. Everyone in town knows that I hunt. So - I have my 1954 30-30 rifle registered as the law requires.”
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They don’t know about any of my other guns though!


51 posted on 12/22/2020 6:44:01 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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