Tag: World War II
Corona closed the Liberation jubilee
The 75th anniversary of Norway's Liberation Day on Friday was supposed to be a major public celebration, where war veterans would be honoured as...
Lots to be learned from earlier crises
NEWS ANALYSIS: It's almost eerie how Norway has had to mark significant anniversaries of three major crises just in the past two weeks, and...
War hero granted a state funeral
UPDATED: One of Norway's last resistance heroes from World War II will be honoured next week with a funeral to be conducted at state...
Last ‘border pilot’ for refugees dies
Åge Aulie was only eight years old when he joined Norway's resistance forces during World War II, guiding refugees over the border to safety...
New book exposes media’s Nazi past
Norwegian historians and newspaper officials have downplayed the role of the Norwegian press in spreading anti-Semitism both before, during and after World War II,...
Norway remembers its D-Day heroes
Prime Minister Erna Solberg was among allied government leaders invited to D-Day memorials in Portsmouth this week, because of the role exiled Nowegians played...
‘Book bomb’ blasts Resistance history
Norway's famed Resistance (Hjemmefronten) forces have long been viewed as the country's heroes of World War II, as they sabotaged Nazi German occupiers and...
Lavrov likely to re-visit Finnmark next year
Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't expected to take part in next year's 75th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Finnmark from Nazi German forces...
War hero hailed as NATO flexed muscle
It was perhaps only fitting that the funeral ceremony for Norway's last surviving "Hero of Telemark," Joachim Rønneberg, was held on Tuesday at precisely...
‘Hero of Telemark’ dies at age 99
UPDATED: Joachim Rønneberg was the last surviving member of the group of Norwegian resistance fighters during World War II whose daring sabotage action in...
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