WWII DOCUMENTARY FILM “ BATTLE FOR NORWAY ” OSLO NARVIK TELEMARK 89184

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This documentary film is about the Battle for Norway during WW2, 1940-1945. The Germans invaded the neutral country in 1940. The invasion set off a resistance by Norwegian underground forces. The film opens with the changing of the guard outside of the Royal Palace in Oslo (:17). King Olaf V (:39) speaks to the severe under-preparedness of Norway prior to WWII and how this event led to the nation joining NATO (1:24). The Germans chose to invade Norway due to its long coast line and the Narvik port. On April 8th, 1940, Allies informed Norway that mine fields had been set up in Norway’s territorial waters in an effort to hamper the German invasion (2:06). King Haakon VII (2:29). The Norwegian Army consisted of only 13,000 men with no tanks and with few heavy guns. Their air force was outdated and had only 125 pilots (2:36), and was no match for the Luftwaffe (2:43). The Germans attack on April 9th, 1940 (2:49). Norway received a warning four days prior but failed to mobilize reservists (3:08). Oslo surrendered as the King and his government fled (3:13). Paratroopers collapse chutes (3:27). German’s managed to capture all of Norway’s key points within 12 hours as well as Denmark within one day (3:31). Amazingly, German General Commander Nicholas von Falkenhorst had been in Norway posing as a silk stocking salesman prior to the invasion (3:46). Major Vidkun Quisling (4:02), a Norwegian fascist, proclaimed himself as head of the new government (4:02). On April 10th, 1940, panic erupted as a rumor spread British forces were going to shell the city (4:30). The rumor was dispelled by nightfall. In the countryside, Norwegians mobilized forces (4:58) sending some to guard the government that fled to Elverum (5:05). The King was pursued by German Ambassador, Dr. Curt Brauer who attempted to intimidate him into supporting Quisling’s government; the King refused (5:29). Elverum was then decimated (6:32) and Nazi’s hunted for Haakon (6:42) and members of his government including Trygve Lie (future Secretary General of the U.N.). Thousands of Norwegians were forced to surrender (7:34) though many continued fighting supported by British fleets and Allied convoys. In April, the Allies landed in Narvik, Namsos, Molde and Andalsnes (7:54). They were able to destroy Narvik’s vital port installations and liberate some Norwegians. Allies were forced to withdraw from Narvik on June 8th (10:02). The Germans struck at France (10:06). The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, was replaced by Winston Churchill in 1940 (10:11). Haakon and his ministers fled to Britain to establish a government in exile (10:34). Quisling was thrown out from government six days after the invasion, though he was reinstated as a puppet Minister President in 1942 (10:58). Real power was held by German Reichskommisar Josef Terboven (11:11). Initially, Nazi’s used a velvet glove approach (11:23) though by September, the Gestapo was unleashed and concentration camps were set up; the largest being Grini (11:44). Major Canut Hoaglin (12:12), speaks on the resistance efforts of teachers who refused to teach fascist ideals (13:10) as well as the priests who refused to preach Hitler’s new religion (13:40). Norwegian volunteers and British commandos hit Maaloy and Vaagso (14:29) destroying fish factories, oil tanks (14:58) and shipping installations. Supplies were dropped to the 30,000 men and women of the resistance (16:25). Unloading radio equipment (16:40) which was used to report movements of the pocket battleships Bismarck, Tirpitz and the battlecruiser Scharnhorst (16:45). 300 underground newspapers sprang up (16:55) and names such as Max Manus of the Oslogjengen became famous. Hidden camera footage of the Gestapo stopping and frisking a civilian (17:23). The Norwegian hydro-electric plant at Telemark was sabotaged in February of 1943 (18:01). This plant produced heavy water which Allies feared the Nazis were using to create atomic bombs. After a failed British attempt to hit the plant, six Norwegians including Major Knut Haugland were given the task (18:05). The attack was successful (18:24) and American bombers finished the job (18:35). Allied Air forces hit the German fleet in 1944 (19:01) and Russians crossed into Norway. On May 7th, 1945 Norway was liberated (19:46). Quisling collaborators arrested (19:54), Josef Terboven blew himself up, and Quisling was shot by a firing squad (20:27). The return (22:05) of the legitimate government and the Crown Prince and King (22:21).

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