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The legal purge in Norway after World War II (Norwegian: Landssvikoppgjøret; lit. ' National treachery Settlement ') took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was found to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country.
The arrest and deportation of political leaders into the Nacht und Nebel camps in Germany also intensified after this. In truth, Norway was already under martial law by any conventional standard. The legally elected government was chased into exile by the invading German forces; a front government led by Vidkun Quisling was for all practical ...
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung.Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945.
13 May – Heinrich Fehlis was arrested and committed suicide. 14 May – Henry Rinnan was arrested. 31 May – Government returned from exile in London. 6 June – King Haakon VII of Norway returned to Norway. 14 June – Knut Hamsun was apprehended. 20 June – Paal Berg gave up plans to form a broad, non-partisan coalition government.
The kvarstad vessels were a number of Norwegian ships held in arrest (Swedish: kvarstad) in Gothenburg during World War II. [1] The ships had been visiting Swedish ports when the German invasion of Norway took place in April 1940. [2]
There were 31 camps between Bergen and Hammerfest during World War II. [8] "[F]rom June 1942 until March 1943, regularly there were such executions of Yugoslavs [as at Beisfjord and Bjørnfjell] in Norwegian camps. 27 prisoners were shot at Ulven near Bergen, and 26 were shot in Tromsø during a ship's arrival. In both cases, the prisoners were ...
26 October – All Jewish men in Norway over 15 are arrested; all Jewish property is ordered confiscated. See the Holocaust in Norway for more. 24 November – All Norwegian Jewish women and children are arrested. 26 November – 548 Norwegian Jewish men, women and children are transported on the ship SS Donau to Stettin.
The Reichskommissariat Norwegen was the occupation regime set up by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Norway during World War II.Its full title in German was the Reichskommissariat für die besetzten norwegischen Gebiete ("Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Norwegian Territories").