Stockholm, Sweden • February 5, 1945 Within 5 months from the start of the German conquest of Norway in April 1940 the first Norwegian political prisoners, initially Jews, communists, and prominent political opponents, were deported to Germany, first by Adolf Hitler’s Norwegian Reichskommisar, or Governor-General, Josef Terboven, then by the Norwegian government of Nazi collaborator Vidkun…
Stockholm, Sweden · February 5, 1945 Within 5 months from the start of the German conquest of Norway in April 1940 the first Norwegian political prisoners were deported to Germany. Two years later, in September 1943, the first deportations of Danish prisoners and Jews to Germany began after German civil and military authorities assumed direct…
Stockholm, Sweden · February 5, 1945 Within five months from the start of the German conquest of Norway in April 1940 the first Norwegian political prisoners were deported to Germany. Two years later, in September 1943, the first deportations of Danish prisoners and Jews to Germany began after German civil and military authorities assumed direct…