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Norway and World War II
Key events
Operation Weserübung
Norwegian campaign
Elverum Authorization
Occupation
Resistance
Camps
The Holocaust
Telavåg
Martial law in Trondheim (1942)
Festung Norwegen
Heavy water sabotage
Liberation of Finnmark
Post-war purge
People
Haakon VII
Crown Prince Olav
Johan Nygaardsvold
Halvdan Koht
C. J. Hambro
Carl Gustav Fleischer
Otto Ruge
Jens Christian Hauge
Gunnar Sønsteby
Vidkun Quisling
Jonas Lie
Gulbrand Lunde
Sverre Riisnæs
Josef Terboven
Wilhelm Rediess
Henry Rinnan
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Organizations
Milorg
XU
Linge
Osvald Group
Nortraship
Nasjonal Samling
Hirden
Statspolitiet
Sonderabteilung Lola
Festung Norwegen (German, transl. Fortress Norway) was the heavy defence and fortification system of Norway during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in World War II. Some, including Reichskommissar Josef Terboven, thought that these fortifications would serve effectively as a last perimeter of defense for the Third Reich in the event of Allied victory on the continent. This led to German troops being kept away from mainland Europe, which resulted in a quicker end to the war.
FestungNorwegen (German, transl. Fortress Norway) was the heavy defence and fortification system of Norway during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany...
Kaliningrad (Festung Königsberg) For entire countries such as Norway which were heavily fortified in World War II. See FestungNorwegen. For proposed...
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wooden runway was completed. The expansion was part of the plans for FestungNorwegen and was used as a bomber base for attacks on Northern Norway. By May...
was a massive construction by the German Forces as part of creating FestungNorwegen, including large sections of the Nordland Line and the completion of...
October 1944 – 26 April 1945 Location Finnmark, Norway Result Allied victory Territorial changes Finnmark liberated German withdrawal into FestungNorwegen...
3 Hitler's Italian Fortress Gothic Line 4 Hitler's Arctic Fortress FestungNorwegen 5 Hitler's Propaganda Machine Propaganda in Nazi Germany 6 Hitler's...
turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise FestungNorwegen (Fortress Norway) for the Nazi regime's last stand. However, after...
Wehrmacht in occupied Norway during the Second World War as part of FestungNorwegen. At Fauske, the line connected with the Nordland Line, and construction...
Böhme. To Böhme, in turn, he gave the task of how the capitulation of FestungNorwegen was to be implemented. There were around 15,000 German soldiers in...
prevent the Allies from entering the Frøysjøen strait, as part of FestungNorwegen. "Berle, Bremanger (Sogn og Fjordane)". yr.no. Retrieved 2019-10-17...
were built by the German Wehrmacht during World War II as part of FestungNorwegen. Three of the fortifications, Akershus, Bergenshus and Karljohansvern...
Deutsche Schiffe kontrollieren die See Dänemark und Norwegen unter Deutschem Schutz Vormarsch in Norwegen Im Morgengrauen des 10. Mai 1940 Vorwärts durch...
evidence of cancelled plans for moving Hitler's inner circle members—to FestungNorwegen. (In the last months of the war, Hauge had secret talks with Wehrmacht...
priority for the German occupation forces, as part of the creation of FestungNorwegen. Several lines were extended or constructed, with mostly poor quality...
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