Don’t forget the Finns...(my ancestry...grandma always called me a stubborn Finn...she came over on the boat)
nor the Danish! Critically aclaimed Flame y Citron
And critically aclaimed and romantically brutal (N)
Black Book
WRWY
Posted on 08/08/2020 7:12:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
A number of books and films have told and made familiar the story of the invasion on April 9, 1940 and occupation of the country of Norway until May 8, 1945 by Nazi Germany during World War II. Germany quickly gained control of major coastal towns, but King Haakon VII and his government refused to surrender and went into exile in Britain. The country was controlled by an occupation force of 300,000 under the military commander General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and Adolf Hitler appointed the former gauleiter Josef Terboven as head of the civilian occupation regime. Later, a puppet government headed by the pro-Nazi Vidkun Quisling was created. The SS and Gestapo functioned independently, using their normal methods of torture, murders, and secret burial grounds. The division of authority meant inefficiencies and confusion over policies and their implementation.
But the real power was determined by Hitler, who had his own vision and agenda for Norway. That vision is discussed and new light is thrown on the German occupation by a brilliant, unusual and fascinating new book, Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway, (Princeton University Press) by Despina Stratigakos, architectural historian, professor and vice-provost at the University of Buffalo. The book stemmed from her interest in learning of the secret plans of Adolf Hitler to build a city in occupied Norway. Exhibiting voluminous painstaking research and illuminated by copious photographs and drawings, the book clarifies that Hitler was interested in Norway not only for military reasons but also as a future member of a Nordic Empire, the northern part of the Greater German Reich, that would exhibit a national socialist landscape.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Landscape-wise, that’s about how it turned out.
Nazi Germany - The Original European Union.
Don’t forget the Finns...(my ancestry...grandma always called me a stubborn Finn...she came over on the boat)
My group is tight. Just sayin’.
My paternal grandparents also “came over on the boat” in their late teens, from Sweden. My mom always said I was a “stubborn Swede.” “You’re certainly your father’s daughter.”
White Death!
Heard of Verhoeven. Never watched either. Thanks, foldspace for all of your posts. I will check them out.
Did they come over on the MS Gripsholm like my family?
Thanks so much, hardspunned. I hadn’t seen it before now. Placemark for later watch (checked out the 1st minute...looks good).
The French tried before the Germans. Both failed by underestimating the Russian winter.
How the Germans conquered Norway.
Airborne troops would seize runways with follow on landing forces, already in the air, to reinforce.
Audacious.
It also helps the “audacious” work better when you sneak attack a neutral country.
Interesting Story on C-Span History on how the Nazi troops who were stationed in Norway for a long time starting divorcing their German wives and marrying Norwegian women. It became so rampant that the German High Command had to stop it. Lot of half German - Norwegian kids in their late 70’s in Olso.
Just the British. However they did not end up victorious like the Germans.
: ) love it, aspasia. Thanks The ‘rats are a Motley Crue. How appropriate to shout at the DEVIL.
You got it. It’s fun to have fun.
1st THEY MOCK YOU, ABHOR YOU, DEHUMANIZE YOU, TREAT YOU WITH NO CIVILITY...those bitter clinger, deplorable, dog-faced pony soldiers.
Then you LAUGH at THEM.
Then you DEPOPULATE THEM from the body politic.
Then you DEPOPULATE THEM from the planet (when necessary).
Why are we allowing THEM, the SUPEREVIL, to waste our air, our resources, our fortunes, our lives, our sacred honor?
READY - AIM - VOTE (we can get the other deceivers in subsequent elections).
I had to look up the Gripsholm! According to Wikipedia she was built or launched in 1924, and my grandparents came over a bit earlier (separately). My grandad was from a farm on the far southern tip of Skåne. My grandmother was from Malmö; I think she was middle- or lower-middle class, perhaps small merchants of some sort. Both came alone, as very young adults looking for a better life. Like many Scandinavians, they came to the Midwest and met in Chicago’s bustling Andersonville neighborhood, probably while attending the popular Evangelical Covenant Church.
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