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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.
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 .
Operation Weserübung: German forces invade and occupy Norway 10 April 1940 The Gestapo arrives in Haugesund, seeking to arrest Moritz Rabinowitz: 18 April 1940 Hitler declares Norway a "hostile country" that can freely be exploited [2] 24 April 1940 Hitler names Josef Terboven as Reichskommissar with power to invoke and enforce decrees 10 May 1940
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Nazi concentration camps in Norway (Norwegian: konsentrasjonsleirer) were concentration camps or prisons in Norway established or taken over by the Quisling regime and Nazi German authorities during the German occupation of Norway that began on 9 April 1940 and used for internment of persons by the Nazi authorities. 709 prison camps [1] [2] or concentration camps, [including some death camps ...
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]