Norway in World War II | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:53 1 Background
00:02:01 1.1 Pre-war relations with Britain
00:04:26 2 German invasion
00:10:26 3 Occupation
00:10:34 3.1 German political and military powers
00:15:09 3.2 Economic consequences
00:16:24 3.3 Holocaust and deportation of Jews
00:17:12 3.4 Acceptance and collaboration
00:18:19 3.5 Resistance movement
00:19:50 3.6 Exiled Norwegian forces
00:20:28 3.6.1 Navy
00:21:06 3.6.2 Air Force
00:22:31 3.6.3 Army
00:23:21 3.7 Allied raids in Norway
00:24:17 4 Liberation
00:24:26 4.1 Lapland War, Soviet advance, and retreat of the German army
00:28:22 4.2 Exiled Norwegian troops liberate Finnmark
00:31:11 4.3 German capitulation and end of occupation
00:35:15 5 Aftermath
00:35:23 5.1 Lebensborn and war children
00:36:27 5.2 Refugees
00:38:52 5.3 Treason trials
00:40:04 5.4 German prisoners of war
00:40:51 5.5 Legacy of the occupation
00:41:28 5.5.1 Social and cultural transformation
00:42:23 5.5.2 Surviving Luftwaffe aircraft
00:43:43 6 See also



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The German occupation of Norway during World War II began on 9 April 1940 after German forces invaded the neutral Scandinavian country of Norway. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940 and the Germans controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8/9 May 1945. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht. Civil rule was effectively assumed by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen (Reich Commissariat of Norway), which acted in collaboration with a pro-German puppet government, the Quisling regime, while the Norwegian King Haakon VII and the prewar government escaped to London, where they acted as a government in exile. This period of military occupation is in Norway referred to as the "war years" or "occupation period".