Teenager Lilly was nervous when three soldiers came to the door. She was at home in Norway, that World War II day, and the soldiers were members of the German occupation forces. They were looking for ...

Last time hostile armies lay in Oslo was in 1716; last time invaders attacked Copenhagen was in 1807. Last week these old capitals surveyed the results of a fortnight’s German occupation, arrived at ...

Number 24, now streaming on Netflix, is director John Andreas Andersen’s dramatization of Norway’s most decorated civilian war hero – Gunnar Sønsteby, codename “Number 24,” who for three years during ...

A German warship that was struck by a torpedo off the coast of Norway was discovered more than 80 years after it sank. Statnett, the Norwegian power grid operator, said the ship was discovered around ...

KRISTIANSAND, Norway – More than 80 years after it was sunk, the wreckage of a World War II warship has been found off the coast of Norway. Statnett, a Norwegian power operator, says its crews ...

1928-2023 Helge was born in Hen, Norway to Ole and Mathea Heen. After the German occupation of Norway during the 2nd world war, he served in the Norwegian Brigade posted in Germany. Helge loved his ...

World War II has always felt like a war where the horrors and drudgery of battle were hidden from the public, at least in the U.S. The soldiers and sailors came home and built lives for themselves and ...

This year’s opening film of the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund might be about the “Battle of Oslo” – or rather, the sinking of German cruiser Blücher back in 1940 – but it has become ...