Norway Freed (1945)

[@idameijel9991]

I was there in Oslo the day the Germans surrendered, and welcomed my father home from Grini Consentration camp. My father faught with the resistance for almost two and half years. He spent time at Akershus and other prisons in Oslo with a death penalty on his head but survived and as a 10 year old I will Never forget the day he came home!!!!

[@charris5700]

Wow thats amazing. I would like to know more about the Norwegian resistance in WW2. I know Denmark was rapid and short as far as # of battles or missions for both sides that was inevitable because Denmark's size, numbers and within walking distance of the armies. Now I'm very curious about Norway and i have to know the exploits of their resistance. If your dad ever told you any stories you are lucky and blessed..that is worth more than gold especially as time passes. There is still more to reveal being found about those incredible interesting years.

[@MrGrus11]

@@charris5700 There are many stories of the resistance in Norway, though most of the fighters are now dead sadly. If you're interested in hearing some of them i'd strongly recommend the movies / series made about them! Here's a quick list of the ones i know (They're all made with subtitles i believe) #1: Max Manus (Story of perhaps one of the greatest freedom fighters in oslo) #2: 12th Man (Story of a man with incredible willpower and courage, he fought to bring vital information to the British) #3: The heavy water war (Series of episodes about a group of Norwegian commandos sent by the British to destroy a heavy water factory, many believe this attack to be the greatest special operation ever done.) #4: The Kings choice (Though not a movie about the freedom fighters it helps with perspective of how things were during the beginning of the war) #5: Report From #24 (Old documentary of one of the master minds behind the Norwegian resistance movement) Any more than this i'd be happy to provide, but i'm kinda tired right now so just comment if you want more and i'll get back to you later.

[@charris5700]

@@MrGrus11 Thank you for the recommendation. I have seen the heavy water sabotage mission that was very important, and I saw on a docu one of the Norwegian resistance fighters on a mission in the fridgid Norse homeland said he and his comrade survived by shooting and eating an elk.

[@MrGrus11]

@@charris5700 There are so many stories out there from the people out in the country side who did their duty to the resistance, and those who did the opposite. Even though i'm tired i can't help but feel the need to share what i know so it isn't forgotten. I've been told a few stories by my grandmother whos father helped hide an escaped soldier in the southern parts of Norway in their small farm house. My great grandfather had been told this man would arrive at an unknown date but to keep his eyes on the road, when that fateful day had arrived my grandmother commented that she'd seen a man in a blue uniform pacing on the streets below and my great grandfather sprung out of his chair and got the man inside safely where they burned his uniform and got him a new set of clothes. He had not seen the man on the road as he had bad eyesight. What they didn't know was that my grandmother had picked off the buttons on the uniform because they were golden and shiny, only once the war progressed and she understood she might put the man in danger did she confess to this. Her father rightfully incredibly concerned had a talk with her of the consequences had those buttons been found. Even though we live in a small village (i personally still live here) the gestapo would occasionally make the trip from a nearby small city called "Moss" to visit the village and talk with its people, it was known that the escaped man would likely be in the area and they'd frequent the bigger farms for check ups as they provided many hiding spots the Germans were familiar with. As you could imagine there weren't exactly many people in the poor country side who owned cars, so when the sound of a truck came running up the road below the escaped man fled through a window and into the woods where he had a hiding spot. It's funny, my great grandfather wasn't a man with an eye for detail. Once a friend of his appeared at the door to make small talk, strangely enough my grandmother took notice to the fact that the man had been wearing his boots on the wrong way. She commented after he'd left that she thought "He'd gone mental, he's wearing his boots on the wrong way". Again my Great grandfather sprung into action, this she would later find out was the signal that an air drop had been made by the British and they had to meet quickly to get it all. The air drops would contain a few weapons and ammunition, radio equipment and rations. My grandmother once found the radio equipment and once again got a serious stern talking to by her father about the consequences of owning a radio. Back in those days if you knew too much and seemed untrustworthy you'd get a small black coffin in the mail one day as a sign to shut up or be executed, one of these had been delivered to a suspicious man in the village. To all of their surprise the day had finally come where the gestapo came and took my great grandfather into custody, there had been rumors of an escapee living at the farm for some time and a nazi collaborator had been sneaking peeks through the windows at the farm. They searched everywhere for the escapee, but found nothing. When the word got out of his arrest the suspicious man, now known as a nazi collaborator was caught trying to escape and executed by firing squad so that no one would know who took the fatal blow. The man had been wearing a suitcase containing documents revealing all sorts of resistance intelligence, many men and women were saved with his death. Nearing the end of the war my great grandfather returned home, he'd been tortured and beaten to the brink of death but he held on to the truth until his release. He was never the same my grandmother said, he'd become paranoid and scared of the dark and remained this way until his death some decades after the war. This is most of what i know of my side of things, i hope you got what you wanted even though it's quite a fragmented story. I've had more questions concerning the escapee, who the hell was he even. All i know about him is that his name was "Franz" he wore a blue uniform with golden buttons and he knew no Norwegian which made his stay difficult to say the least. I've never investigated it much further than that, i've been considering going into the woods behind the old farmhouse to see if i can find his old hiding spot. In any case, i hope you had a great read it took longer than i had expected.

[@peteacher52]

Respect. In the 1960s I read some Readers Digest articles on the heroics of the Norwegian resistance

[@tedmccarron]

One thing I really appreciate about the people who put this video up is that they don't have some noxious logo taking up the middle of the screen like some others I know.

[@ohmkruger3373]

Mein Gott warum begrüßt der Brite nicht ? Ach so sind ja die Sieger.

[@Tiffin59]

At 6:30 note footage of under sea oil supply. The PLUTO project. My grandfather worked on this. An audacious feat of engineering!

[@MrDaiseymay]

SHERE BRILLIANCE, NECESSITY, THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

[@righteousred723]

Nice try, Pluto is in space

[@brucebear1]

Yes -- Pipe Line Under The Ocean. "Project PLUTO".

[@RebelSonBand]

Yes its good stuff..There is no doubt the German was heiling ,that chicky bastard..I think the Brit did right in not shaking that hand,,

[@albions]

Not German, natzy. German ppl are nice :)

[@beniaminosani2719]

The shaking hand thing is also a protocolar and etiquette error from the german officer. It's ever the highest person who shall offer his hand first to the lowest one: in this situation the german is representing a surrender army. Moreover it is the winning side that can decide to offer some level of honour to the losers, not the other way around (e.g. from the permission to keep the gun to the fully military honour for a brave unit). I see in this a sign of the german pride and arrogance. The Allied officer was cold-blooded enough to refuse.

[@lewisner]

@Jean-Michel Stichelbaut Apparently when Dachau was liberated the commandant came up to the American captain , clicked his heels and did the Nazi salute. The captain called him a schweinhund, spat at him and told his guys "take this piece of shit away". Later the commandants body was found near the perimeter fence.

[@lewisner]

@Don't Tread On Me Not as far as I know. There's a video of one of the liberators of Dachau and described finding the corpse of the commandant lying near the perimeter fence , shot.

[@generalstabssjef]

​@@lewisner The last commandant was hanged in 1946.

[@samsum3738]

The organization behind the pipiline is mindblowing .War certainly concentrates the mind .

[@joezavacky720]

The Channel oil pipeline is very interesting. Never knew about this.

[@MrDaiseymay]

----and STILL the secrets of WW2 are being revealed for the first time ( although this creation has been known for some time)

[@allangibson8494]

Pluto was moderately important to Neptune...

[@dalj4362]

Well done for not shaking his hand. I don't think I could have either.

[@elviramcintosh9878]

Marvellous secret! The engineering was, and continues to be, astounding. Who would have thought it possible? Well done men and glory to the women that helped put it together! Thanks for sharing.

[@christjesusislord3372]

German soldier takes his gloves off to shake British officer hand but he refuse to shake hands...

[@MrDaiseymay]

Of course he wouldn't---FEELTHY NAZI BASTARD

[@paladin56]

He even did the Nazi salute first, instead of a military salute. He was lucky to have got away with just a refused handshake.

[@jimmypints]

Then you are a cruel person

[@binaway]

By this time allied personnel had seen the concentration camps and other atrocities. Not interested in being friend with those using the Nazi salute.

[@davidgoldin5759]

Neither would Eisenhower. But Quisling still liked him.

[@peteacher52]

That Wierdmark kraut pulled his hand quickly when he realised that the surrender ceremony was not a hand shaking affair for him! I didn't know about the channel pipe line. My dad, a WW2 survivor, said they always had plenty of petrol but the krauts didn't. This film helps to connect the dots as perhaps even he didn't know why that was at the time. He said that water for ablutions was in very short supply and that it was a pity they couldn't use petrol for that purpose!

[@oceanhome2023]

In a Kauts’ diary from Africa he talks about His capture by the Americans and he was completely unnerved waiting as. several jeeps were left. idling nonchalantly and it was all he could do not to run over and turn off all of the engines, as he was trained! You would think that if they were that low on gas they would have sent Hitler Youth in Kubel wagons to siphon out the gas from anything that was wrecked !

[@brucebear1]

That pipeline - like nothing else before it in terms of utiity and usefulness, - was called the *P*ipe *L*ine *U*nder *T*he *O*cean -- or "Operation PLUTO". It was successfully planned, built, and put into operation in a short period of time and it continued to work until the end of the War. (It actually wasn't a single pipeline but a series of parallel lines, but the first one was working within days of D-Day.)

[@scottfuller5194]

King Hakkon of Norway presented an authentic Norse, Viking era sword to Canada for Canadian support to Norway during WWII. The sword was symbolic of Norway’s freedom and is today, in the edged weapons collection in the Canadian War Museum......!

[@casadelshed9128]

Did those pipelines work?

[@bo2web]

0:40 no hand shake ! First horror nazi camps have been discovered !

[@lynn0MA]

A Wow factor with the pipe shipped across the channel.

[@MrRoyobentoni]

The pipelines are the greatest secret.

[@briankoshefsky5916]

Handshake? No I don't think so

[@McCov1]

0:45 The British officer didn’t want to shake hands with the Nazi. 😂 THAT IS BAD NEWS!

[@anthonywalsh785]

very sad to see. i was always taught be humble in victory and gracious. in defeat.

[@sledgehammer9739]

That one guy HAD to be a collaborator because he was rocking the Adolf mustache.

[@jayhershey7525]

Did you see the size of that drum? Holy shit!

[@heshorheat]

Sorry it took so long Norway :/

[@georgschmidt4670]

Why? Now they are giving their country to Muslims.

[@adamanderson3042]

georg57 georg57 They’re not. I’ve been to Norway. Norway isn’t even in the EU.

[@rainmaker3987]

Very sad day in human history!

[@DES1GN3R007]

i thought norway was complicit. or was that finland

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Neither. Norway was attacked while neutral, & so was Finland. But from opposite sides.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@Liquid Falsate Yeah, Norway took in thousands of famished German children after ww1, & exported iron ore to nazi Germany, & saw as her returns goose-stepping SS from the waifs & panzers from the ore. One good thing though, the nazi dreadnought Blucher was directly Norwegian-sent to the bottom along with the 1,000 Gestapo thugs aboard ; and the other nazi dreadnought Bismarck was later indirectly Norwegian-sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. And the last nazi dreadnought Tirpitz was later directly Norwegian-salvaged as scrap iron making up for the wartime-pillaged iron ore. & the nazi nuke was directly Norwegian-sunk stillborn through heavy water.

[@guttormg1208]

You might want to read up on both history and geography...

[@531c]

No it was mickey mouse

[@ninirema4532]

very smart Military powerful🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏

[@deutsch3979]

Occupied not freed

[@liam7903]

norway captured*

[@ralphbernhard1757]

They don't mention that the Germans invaded Norway and Denmark because of British mine laying actions, and that a British invasion fleet was already en route to Norway when the Germans landed. The Germans were therefore only faster, and would never have invaded if it weren't for British intervention. Norway in German hands was a nuisance to GB, but Norway in British hands would have meant the end of the war for Germany. The Nazi German leadership was evil as hell, but twisting facts only works on the uninformed.

[@kosepus100ny]

allied propuganda maschine. GB dint give a dam about US they wanted just fuqing with the german war indstry. im supriced we chose them thro history britania has been making it hard for us and tryed to change our culture so many times

[@paladin56]

Poor Germans, being forced to invade other people's countries. It must have been awful for them.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Tim Richardson​ Poor schemers and 'behind closed door' dealers, wishing to involve neutral nations in their own wars, in order to expand their war..... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_R_4 Note here that the INTENTION of the scheme was to (quote) "provoke a German attack". Note also, that from a British point of view, it didn't really matter how Plan R4 evolved. For the British intention to escalate the war, whether R4 succeeded or not, didn't matter. If the scheme succeeded, the Brits would be in control of Norway = win. If the scheme failed, it was also a 'win', because German forces would be forced to occupy a neutral nation. It seems as if the only 'losers' in this scheme was the Norwegian people. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@paladin56]

Oh really? That must be why the Norwegian Government still sends the UK a giant Christmas tree every year as a symbol of its gratitude for what it did for them during the War. But no, your right. Britain should have given those Nazi bastards a free hand in Europe and done nothing. Judging by some idiots on You Tube they would have been much happier if we had.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Yes, really. Without the British plans, there would have been no invasion of Norway in 1940. Just like during WW1, German leaders had no incentive to invade Norway. In WW2, such a plan could only have dire consequences for Germany if it failed (in view of the comparatively small navy in 1940, a valid fear). And 'no', I didn't say that opposition to the Nazis was wrong. I said dragging Norway into the war was wrong. GB fought for own interests, NOT because the Nazis were sooo nasty. Who are you trying to fool? A nation's (ANY nation, not only GB) leaders fight for the national interest of that nation, and not for 'poor people' elsewhere.

[@reginaldmcnab3265]

Eastern Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union until 1990 Western Europe was controlled by the US and it is still be controlled y the US.

[@michaelthomas7178]

The Germans should have kept theirs arms loaded ready to fight until a mutual respect of handshake of peace was extended. The arrogance and disrespect of the British officer should have been met with battle.

[@paulmagnicon2349]

You are all my arse or drunk or both

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@Jobch42v4-6 GOOD AND APPROPRIATE TERMINOLGY

[@varvara69]

Michael du bits Ein Arschloch !

[@generalstabssjef]

Genau!

[@michellearmstrong7903]

Silly little boy