Battle of Lundehøgda, Norway 1940 - Alliert og alene (TV Mini Series 2015)

[@LeftyConspirator]

I was an extra on the German side in the assault sequence in first segment of the video. The director originally intended to shoot the sequence where we ran along the fence line several times, but the snow was so deep and so wet that after the first go all the extras were completely exhausted after running through it in heavy boots and ridiculously warm wool uniforms. It might not look like it, but it was a very warm day!

[@Uberdude6666]

Its really strong hearing the veteran talk about his experiences.. Thank you for providing english subs

[@jameslang1367]

I am American however I am drawn to the history of Norway during WW2 I am part Norwegian on my mother's side my Grandfather was 💯 percent Norwegian. The Norwegians are true fighters to this day. From Nebraska USA God bless Norway.

[@sarcastaball]

Keep your so-called blessings from an imaginary celestial dictator to yourself, Yankee. We grew out of such superstitions a long time ago here. Cincerely, non-religious Norwegian.

[@Sondrey731]

🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴

[@kristianstrm2375]

You'd be interested to know the first american millitary casualty was in Norway. Iirc, a US officer from the American embasy in Finland or Sweden had travelled into Norway to find and aid the American embassy staff there, who were evacuating to Sweden, but were delayed with no word. He travelled with an American flag draped on his car, (still neutral), but had loaded it onto a traincar where it wasn't visible when the Luftwaffe struck the railstation. He and other civillians rushed for the safety of a tunnel when a bomb struck nearby, killing him. He travelled with another man, who I believe managed to find the Americans in the end.

[@captaineimikk5099]

Respect for alle som kjempet for hjemlandet

[@sarcastaball]

Tosk

[@jejjo1000]

@@sarcastaballde kjempet for live og du kaller han en tosk???? Hva vis du hadde drept noen i krig også blir du skutt og nesten død ville du likt at folk hadde kalt deg en tosk?

[@ThePijarro]

@@sarcastaball Dust!

[@BenRedicFyFasan]

@@sarcastaballE du NS eller noe

[@drSvensen]

@BenRedicFyFasan NS kjempet også for hjemlandet.

[@coling3957]

if Norway had mobilised BEFORE Germans invaded , it could have been another "Finland" .. the Allies were coming , but the Germans were already established and most importantly held airstrips which decided conflict. Most British and French troops were in France awaiting German offensive... along with almost all their air forces.

[@bokvarv1926]

Could have and maybe should have really get us no wiser, however looking at what Norway managed to actually do, analyze the total impact this had on the German forces and the War (in the west). Norway held out longer than any other country but the sovjet union. France fell in less than 20 days, most of Europe was taken in less than 60 days, Norway held out for 62 Days, fighting most of that alone with at best "soldiers" that only what way to point the rifle if that. Further more the Attackled to german Navy suffering what would become a catastophic loss of ship in Narvik, in fact they lost so many medium and light ships that they could never ever challenge the royal Navy or actually conduct any effective navy opearions at all following those losses, this in large contriubuted to allied victory as well as several other factors. Much becuse of Norway fighting so fiercely and the close family ties between the norwegian royal house and britain, Norway (though incuding the merchant fleet the worlds largest at the time) became a very important player among the Allies and had far more power than the size of the tiny nation would make us think. With the Successful occupation of Norway, Germany ensured Allied victory in Europe, this becuse of Norway in 1944 had both Occupation Forces and close to 300 000 german army forces fighting on the loosing eastern front, these units, 300 000 roughly could have been deplyed to france in june 44, but again Norway decided to troll some germans and we made sure the 300 000 had more than enoufh to do in Norway, fighting a guerilla war in some regions, this prevented these 300 000 to be placed in Normandy. etc etc. If we analyze all countries affected by the war and playing a part in the war, they all made a difference on both sides of the conflict, no nation was spared and none were unique

[@klauslunde]

well what your saying here is completely false because neutrality norway our country was neutral the entire time then the brits decides to go against our neutrality and mine lay our coasts destroying iron ships then the nazis are mad because their iron is gone and atack us after the war the town i live was burnt to a crisp everything up here in finnmark was burnt to a crisp by the germans all couldve been pervented if it wasnt for the allies

[@klauslunde]

also our neutrality forbidds mobilization

[@militaryhistory3520]

If we got the stuff we orded before the war then it would hell for the germans

[@jaguamann]

The fact that Norway sent the mobilization orders in the post was a big mistake

[@saveearth7332]

respekt til di som kjempet og falt, hvil i fred alle legender❤

[@O5-15.]

"For alt vi har. Og alt vi er." Lenge leve norge.

[@RebXt]

Respect, alle som Kjempet og Offra livet Sitt til the Norsk Landet!

[@til_dovre_faller6572]

Enig og tro indtil dovre faller

[@RebXt]

@@til_dovre_faller6572 JA VI Elsker dette landet! Som det stiger frem! Furu trær over landet med de elsket Hjem! Ja vi elsker dette landet! Og Far og mor. Alt jeg Husker

[@til_dovre_faller6572]

@@RebXt Høyt sverger Norges mann hver i sitt kall, sin stand, troskap sin drott. Trofast i liv og død, tapper i krig og nød, alltid vårt Norge lød Gud og sin drott

[@sarcastaball]

@@RebXt furet, værbitt. ikke furutrær

[@vaskoz3700]

jag är svenne och förstår typ allt dom sade respekt till våra grannar

[@kebman]

Det var flere svenner som kjempet for Norge. En av dem var Ernst H. Svensson. Han eide en urmakerforretning i Oslo. Der hadde han hemmelige møter hvor de planla sabotasje mot tyskerne. Men en dag kom Gestapo på døren. Han fikk hintet til sin høygravide kone om å brenne alle papirene på kontoret. Men da offiseren så det, så skrek han: "Her skal ikke fyres!" Det skremte henne så mye at halsen hennes snørte seg sammen og hun måtte spise suppe resten av livet. Hun ynket at hum måtte fyre på grunn av barnet. Men Ernst ble likevel arrestert og sendt til Sachsenhausen. Der fikk han prompte papirdress, og ble sendt ut for henrettelse. Men akkurat den dagen var det flyalarm, så henrettelsen ble utsatt. Samme uke kom Den Svenska Delegasjonen på besøk til leiren, og han ble tatt med. For sin heltedåd for Norge fikk han Kong Haakongs Frihetskors. Og så fikk han brev fra Svenska staten om at han hadde mistet stemmeretten i Sverige. ;)

[@zutiofnbr]

Til Valhalla!!! Lenge Leve Norge. Takk til alle de som er dere ut og passer på at vi er trygg.

[@jcee2259]

As did this old soldier I survived a different war long ago. I too saw another century and are glad he also visited it.

[@GrantDWilliams82]

I have no idea what any of these people are saying and yet it was obvious that he was saying that it changed him when he shot that German soldier.

[@AshtonmartinVids]

@@GrantDWilliams82 You can enable subtitles

[@Atli-Eiriksson]

interesting the Norwegians used the French word for Machine gun

[@AshtonmartinVids]

Yep, quite a bit of French military vocabulary made its way into the Norwegian language.

[@Atli-Eiriksson]

@@AshtonmartinVids I knew it had done so in the Swedish military hadn't heard it did so in Norwegian as well lol an ironic mix of German as well for both

[@Cocaaccke]

Massiv respekt til alle dei Norske som ga altunddr krigen . Selv om dei slått not den største hæren i verden

[@runeberntzen3890]

Hva er navnet på serien

[@AshtonmartinVids]

Det står i både tittelen og beskrivelsen til videoen.

[@Thebluefox815]

Feel bad for the old man who has cleary lost some of his memory. I’ve been to lundehøgda, I’ve walked the battle and talk to veterans from the battle and historians, and it was not the bloodbath described. It was a firefight. I remeber a historian mention this series and the comments from the veteran. He said he had talked to him a couple of years before the series when he was clearer in his mind and he had told more correct story. The germans threw themselves on the ground to avoid being shot, to some it must have felt like they hit every time.

[@dereknoll1499]

I've heard similar things from the other battles. Heinrich Severloh is a great example.

[@GraemeS-pk9cz]

@Thebluefox815 May be so, but we weren't there, and we can't know what he experienced, so we couldn't say for sure. He apparently was there. A skirmish can be a bloodbath for the guy who was there.

[@TROONTRON]

Apparently 35 Germans and 17 Norwegian soldiers died in this skirmish. Which in addition probably means about 100 more wounded of various degrees. That could still be a "blood bath" for a tiny skirmish like this; where there's only very few hundreds soldiers in the fighting itself.

[@Thebluefox815]

@ The norwegians were approx 1800 soldiers and the germans had more….. so if you have around 4:1 wounded/dead, you’ll end up with a couple hundred causilites, which is under 10% losses. So no bloodbath there…..

[@TROONTRON]

So more of a blood bath than D-day then...

[@fantasy_4772]

Respekt til di som har falt for Norden

[@DarkSektori]

Even if the Norwegian army fully mobilized it wouldn't of mattered much. Even at full strength Norway only had about 50-55k troops and the British contributed around 38k troops, they had no armour and had little to no means of dealing with German tanks, and their airforce was small, obsolete and easy prey for the Luftwaffe. Yeah you had the battles of Narvik which the naval portion of those battles, the Royal Navy won unsurprisingly, on land the allied expeditionary force eventually outnumbered the Norwegian forces they were supporting, it was made up of troops from several other countries besides British and Norwegian troops, they were also made up of French, and Polish forces as well. The early battles were successful by the allies at first but eventually the Germans regrouped and with overwhelming air superiority drove the allies back into the sea essentially. Now aside from Narvik there were other instances of the Norwegians putting up brave resistance the Battle of the Drøbak Sound in which the German heavy cruiser Blücher was sunk by a combination of two 28 cm MRK L/35 Krupp costal defense guns from the Oscarsborg fortress and land based torpedo batteries. This caused setbacks for the Germans as the Blücher was carrying most of the troops and Gestapo personnel intended for the occupation of Oslo it also allowed King Haakon VII and most of the government to evacuate the Norwegian capital. There were several other secondary costal defense batteries in the fjord (the Kopås and Husvik batteries). You had the battle of the Hegra Fortress in which 250 Norwegian volunteers held out against two German Infintry battalions and an artillery unit for 25 days.

[@tbo2307]

With a mobilized and well trained Norwegian army the Germans would have serious problems getting tanks into the country. Compared to the Finns being assaulted over a land border the Norwegian position would have been significantly easier. The Finns prepared for war 6 months before they were attacked. Had Norway done the same, history would have been different.

[@NewLife-2-p5l]

Norway could have been defended if they had lots of weapons and a well organized army ready along the 2000 km coast. But they did not have any of them. So the wise thing was to wait until the Russians defeated the Germans. And thus the small population of only 2 millions could survive, with only 10 thousand dead. The gremans were overwhelming in equipment personel and training. The germans had 350 thousand soldiers in Norway. My parents lived the war in Narvik, and because of that I know something of how it was. My grandparents and other smuggeled out people that the Germans tried to arrest. There were not so much to eat.

[@MrLudvigsen]

Germans did not like the norwegian bayonets...A norwegian taking part told me this.

[@philippecasteleyn9327]

Were they really wearing dark green dress in the snow ?

[@AshtonmartinVids]

Yes, on a general basis both armies during this campaign had to improvise when it came to winter camoflage.

[@DrakeKillah]

Yes. Norwegian forces weren't prepared for an all out war, our defense forces were poorly supplied, as we were on good terms with all of our neighbours, and the chance of an invasion was considered to be extremely low. Politically, we wanted to be neutral, and the plan was to stay out of the war entirely. Germany left us with no choice in the matter, and at that point, it was too late to furnish our troops with anything that wasn't already available. Gearing up full-scale production and distribution of camouflage for an entire army, was simply too late. As for Germany, they under-estimated the resistance they would face in Norway, as they did several other countries, and did not bring supplies for all-season warfare. They were certain that Norway would fall shortly, and that the majority of our population would simply bend the knee. When we didn't, there probably wasn't enough room in the logistical "budget" to fit in winter-camouflage, and the basics like ammunition and hardware took priority. Camouflage wasn't as widely used back then, as it is now, in the first place. Warfare wasn't as flexible and cutthroat as it would become, much of that changed during WW2.

[@aconsideredopinion7529]

Incredible bravery shown by both sides…

[@Hordalending]

*If even 1% of this tale is true, the Germans at this stage of the war fought like drunkards , with masses of exposed infantry throwing themselves headlong into enemy fire. What a mess.*

[@torbk]

The thing is, the battle for southern and middle Norway often took place in the wooded farmland with open fields. These were covered by deep snow. In order to advance the Germans had to move up along narrow exposed roadways, and once they came under fire they would have to scramble across those fields to get into cover. A lot of the campaign was fought with marginal motorization, mostly marching infantry. It was a mess, but not because the Germans were amateurs, but they attacked so early in the spring the country was still snow-covered and the terrain rarely favored the attacker. It should be said Norwegian officers were quite adept at taking good positions, but they were less able to effectively counter the more modern aspects of war. The Norwegian army wasn't really nimble, but the Germans were forced to fight a less advanced war in Norway than they would have liked. They brought few tanks and, again, the snow-covered landscaped and narrow roads lead them into several costly situations. The war for Norway cost 1100 Norwegians and 3200 Germans their lives. On a world scale it was small. For those involved it was still unforgiving. I remember reading an estimate for wounded as well, in a Norwegian history book, but I don't fully remember. I believe there were also about 5000 wounded Norwegians and 7000 wounded Germans, but take that with a pinch of salt. Adding the dead to the wounded brings us to roughly 6000 Norwegians casualties and 10.000 German casualties.

[@Twisted_loona]

Parts of The norwegian amy putt down arms but the norwegian marines continued to fight

[@gorzla]

Og i dag gir vi vårt suverenitet til EU

[@MrBjornibjorn]

Ferre og ferre Nordmenn igjen i landet. Lurer på om muhammad ville kjempet; "alt for Norge".

[@aronnoel2715]

Jeg er fra norge😆😁🥰

[@nicholaslau264]

where to watch this

[@AshtonmartinVids]

If you're Norwegian you can watch it on NRK's website for free. If you're from somewhere else you can buy access on Vimeo.

[@AlphaChinoz]

A fellow Shadow Company lover, I see? A man of culture!