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Norway and the world war 2
Title: Norway and the world war 2
Category: History / War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 3325 | Pages: 14.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Norway and the world war 2
Norway and World War II
Norwegians were surprised and unprepared when Nazi Germany, with its superior military might, attacked Norway on 9 April 1940. The general public, and their political leaders, had believed that Norway would be able to stay out of the second world war, just as the country had maintained its neutrality in World War I. They believed that Norway was strategically on the periphery, protected by British naval power, and thought that Norwegian neutrality …showed first 75 words of 3325 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3325 total…A total of 45 Norwegians and Germans received death sentences, 37 of the executions were carried out.
It did not take long for the country to recuperate from the effects of World War II. Industrial production and the gross domestic product were greater in 1946 than in 1938. Three years later, the country's national wealth had also returned to its pre-war level.
The author of the article, Tor Dagre, was formerly the editor of the newspaper Nytt fra Norge.
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