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A German tank advances on a Norwegian road followed by
a platoon of infantry (Mondadori/Bild Archiv). In the campaign of Norway excluding
some selected Alpine troops, all men of the Wehrmacht fought for the first time
at temperatures of under zero Celsius, experimenting the difficulties that this
involved. It was only a brief prelude of what it would have happened in the exterminate
Russian steppes.
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A German ship goes out unmolested from a Norwegian fjord
under the vigilant look of a German sentinel (Mondadori/Bild Archiv). The importance
of the harbors and the natural inlets of Norway had a fundamental role in the
decision of Hitler to invade the Scandinavian nation. However, what could be a
great advantage...
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...it ended retorting against Germany. In the image above
(viewimages.com) a German ship can be seen on fire out of the island of Vaasgo
after having been bombed during a raid of the Raf in 1941. Although the fjords
constituted a shelter for the German boats, a lot of times they succeeded only
in entering them, but not in going out.
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A Nazi Officer visit a military cemetery in Norway (Corbis.com)
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Quisling passes in review a unit of the Wehrmacht during
a visit of his in Germany (viewimages.com). The Norwegian collaborationism was
rather limited among the civil population but the nazi party of Quisling resulted
author of one of the hardest regimes of all the occupied countries.
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Quisling during his trial in Nurnberg (viewimages.com).
The charges on him were overwhelming. He was sentenced to death.
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