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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.
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 ...
Based on the lists the police compiled, most Jewish adult men were arrested and detained in October 1942, and by November 26, women and children were also arrested for deportation. This is the only time in Norwegian history that Norwegian police had been ordered to arrest children. [5] [6]
It was titled "The Reisel/Bruland Report on the Confiscation of Jewish Property in Norway during World War II," and is commonly known as the "blue book" and is on file at the Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities. Ottosen, Kristian (1994). I slik en natt - historien om deportasjonen av jøder fra Norge. Oslo: Aschehoug.
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.
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.
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