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Sailors finally win wartime salute

A series of novels about a fictional Norwegian seafarer during World War II is topping bestseller lists in Norway, and finally giving the country's...

War heroes win overdue honours

 After being all but ignored for more than 70 years, members of Norway's World War II resistance movement known as "Pelle-gruppa" (the Pelle Group)...

German bunker halts housing project

Construction crews preparing the grounds for a new housing project at Ganddal in Sandnes, western Norway, suddenly dug up a large German bunker from...

War hero’s statue damaged again

A statue of Norwegian war hero Gunnar Sønsteby has now been removed from its base at Solli Plass in Oslo, after it was found...

Museum launches artworks probe

Officials at one of Norway's leading art museums, the Henie Onstad Art Centre just west of Oslo, are now investigating the origins of 18 of...

Still heroes, after all these years

Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of what some call Norway's proudest moment during World War II, when Joachim Rønneberg and nine other Norwegian resistance...

Museum caught in painting dispute

A valuable painting by French artist Henri Matisse, now claimed to have been stolen by the Nazis during World War II, has been hanging...

Police apologize for deportation

Norway's new director of the state police has issued an official apology for his department's involvement in the deportation of Jewish residents in 1942....

Encouraging words as Utøya memorials loom

Just a few hundred meters away from the scene of Norway's worst attacks since World War II is a well-preserved message from the war...

Official farewell to a ‘real hero’

Norway's most highly decorated hero, resistance fighter Gunnar Sønsteby, was hailed with the gratitude of an entire nation when King Harald, Prime Minister Jens...
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