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To: albee
You're making a fool of yourself in public, Albee Non-Einstein.

Well, if you can't even name one well known hero from Norway's glorious wars, perhaps you can name some of the battles Norway won during WWI and WWII.

Norway was neutral in WWI, as you clearly didn't know.

A few noted Norwegian heroes from WWII:

Leif "Shetland" Larsen, the highest decorated Allied naval officer in WWII

Joachim Rønneberg, leader of the Gunnerside commando team during the Norwegian heavy water sabotage in Telemark.

Knut Haukelid, prominent member of his crew.

Claus Helberg, leader of the Grouse commando team.

Gunnar Sønsteby, leader of the Sabotage Group of the Company Linge partisans

General Carl Gustav Fleischer, the first Allied general to defeat German forces in WWII, at the battle of Narvik on April 28 1940. (So much for your stupid claim that "there weren't any battles.)

Norway surrendered faster than the French? In fact it never surrendered. The King and Government evacuated to London and continued resisting from there as a recognized full Ally, using revenue from the merchant fleet to rebuild the army forces. The effort of the latter may have been decise to the war in Europe, by the way, since Britain would not have been supplied without it.

But first the army resisted for a month on Norwegian soil, despite having been run down in the 1930s by a naïve Labor government.

Do your homework, kid. You're embarrassing yourself.

86 posted on 05/02/2006 6:17:26 PM PDT by ProudNorseman
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To: ProudNorseman
"Norway surrendered faster than the French? In fact it never surrendered. The King and Government evacuated to London and continued resisting from there as a recognized full Ally."

Never surrendered?

Let's see if I've got this right:

The King and Queen and some other "brave and proud norsemen" desert their country and sit out the war in the English countryside while the Nazis occupy the Country of Norway.

The Nazis pick a puppet named Quisling to front for them for the duration of the war and the norse sheep mutter Heil Hitler for five years.

Only a real phony wouldn't recognize that as a surrender.

87 posted on 05/02/2006 6:50:59 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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