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War hero to receive state funeral

Gunnar Sønsteby, Norway's most highly decorated hero for his resistance efforts during World War II, is also receiving the highest of state honours after...

Norway hails its greatest war hero

It didn't take long before ordinary Norwegians spontaneously started paying their final respects to their country's greatest war hero, Gunnar Sønsteby, after his death...

War memorials listed in new register

For the first time, all of Norway's roughly 3,000 war memorials have been compiled in a new register that soon will be available online....

Royals feared Labour government

Norway's newly established royal family feared for their future when the Labour Party won government power in the early 1930s. Labour opposed the monarchy...

Beloved king ‘naive’ about the Nazis

Norwegian historians, authors and commentators were scrambling on Friday to try to explain why Norway's late and much-loved King Olav, long a symbol of...

War hero’s statue finally settled

For months, controversy has flared over where to place a statue of World War II resistance hero Max Manus. Now the arguing sides have...

‘Never again the ninth of April’

Friday marked 70 years since Norway was invaded by Germany, setting off an occupation unlikely to be forgotten. The bitter wars years began in...

State archives release war documents

Norway's state archives (Riksarkivet) marked the 70th anniversary of the German invasion on Friday by releasing thousands of war documents online. The documents reveal...

New era for Oscarsborg

Seventy years after playing a major role in Norway's war history, the island that's home to the Oscarsborg Fortress has been going through a...

Norway loses another hero of Telemark

Jens-Anton Poulsson, one of the last surviving members of the Telemark sabotage operation during World War II that blocked German development of an atomic...
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