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Norway in the second World War : politics, society and conflict / Ole Kristian Grimnes ; translated by Frank Stewart.
Van Pelt Library DL532 .G74313 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grimnes, Ole Kristian, 1937- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Norge under andre verdenskrig. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Norway.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Norway--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Norway.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 283 pages: illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Norwegian.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I A country is conquered
- 1. Into war
- The intrusive Allies
- The secret invasion plan
- After the Finnish Winter War
- The government's refusal
- 2. The Norwegian Campaign 1940
- South Norway
- Narvik
- The campaign and the occupied areas
- Bitterness
- The government decides to continue the struggle
- 3. How to govern an occupied country?
- The Administrative Council
- Reichskommissar Josef Terboven
- A new government?
- The Council of the Realm is abandoned
- Terboven's political revolution
- pt. II Occupied Norway
- 4. The Wehrmacht in Norway
- Leadership
- Defence against invasion
- Protection of coastal shipping
- Offensive forays
- The attack on the Soviet Union
- The Wehrmacht and Norwegian society
- 5. The Reichskommissariat
- Terboven
- The Einsatzstab
- a political taskforce
- Economic departments
- Propaganda
- The Reichskommissariat and Germany
- Relationships with the Wehrmacht and the NS Party
- 6. The SS and Police
- Hitler's hardmen
- Terror politics
- The `racially pure' Norwegians
- Volunteers for the Waffen-SS
- The Civilian SS
- The Norwegian police
- Lebensborn
- The SS breeding programme
- 7. Nasjonal Satnling (NS)
- Norway's Fascist Party
- The 1930s: An insignificant party
- Ideology
- History and the mission of NS
- The supreme leader
- Membership and organization
- Opposition
- Programme
- NS and the Germans
- 8. In the grip of war economy
- A new economic zone
- Important war goods
- Wehrmacht's building and construction programme
- The failure of a giant project
- Run on the National Bank
- The demand for labour
- The regulated economy
- A successful adjustment
- Norwegian collaboration
- Economic resistance
- Problematic accounting
- 9. Life in an occupied society
- Town and country
- Shortages and women's experience
- Health and birth rate
- pt. II War and resistance
- 10. Norway in exile
- King and government
- The government and The Home Front
- Alliance
- Participation in the wider war
- The merchant fleet
- The navy
- The air force
- The army
- Operations in Norway
- Coastal raids
- Resistance behind enemy lines
- Bombing
- Norway in Sweden
- Refugees
- Sweden and Norwegian resistance
- The police troops
- 11. National socialism - an attempted revolution 1940-2
- The Nasjonal Samling (NS) government
- The Nazification campaign
- The Ministry of the Interior
- The Ministry of Culture and Popular Enlightenment
- The Ministry for Labour Service and Sport
- The Ministry of Justice
- The Police Ministry
- Resistance
- Sport
- The Supreme Court
- The church
- The organizations
- Victory in the civil resistance campaign
- The stubborn church
- NS's national assembly is buried
- Resistance leadership
- 12. The Holocaust in Norway
- The NS state and the police
- Jewish escape
- The Holocaust in perspective
- 13. Compulsory labour and mass arrests in 1943
- The campaign against the labour service
- Home Front Leadership
- Three mass arrests
- 14. The Home Front and The Resistance Movement
- The civil resistance
- The difficult military resistance
- The illegal press
- The intelligence service
- Escape
- The North Sea route
- Escape to Sweden
- 15. The Norwegian Communist Party
- The Radical Resistance Party
- The communists and The Home Front Leadership
- pt. IV Towards the end
- 16. The Overseas and Home Fronts in the last year of the war
- Participation in D-Day
- The civil resistance movement's second victory
- The Resistance Movement is militarized
- The Home Front Leadership steps forward
- German counter-sabotage
- 17. The North Norway narrative
- The Wehrmacht and the liberation of Finnmark
- Forced evacuation and cave-dwellers
- The sweetness of the first meeting: The Overseas Front returns home
- 18. The Germans and NS face defeat
- Quisling and NS
- The last days.
- Notes:
- Maps on end sheets.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1350214590
- 9781350214590
- 1350214604
- 9781350214606
- OCLC:
- 1281133404
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