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Norway in World War II papers, circa 1945
Collection Number:
P0565
Extent:
2.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes)
Abstract:
Papers concerning Norway and World War II consisting of brochures, clippings,
correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, speeches, scrapbooks, occupation humor, Per
Lorentzen and Nortraship, pictures and a collection of 54 slides covering King Haakon VII's
return to Norway in June, 1945.
Box
1

Date
1940

Range
1948

1941
1940
1941

1988
1944
1945

2

Folder Description
1 Clippings.
Correspondence, Manuscript, Pictures. Includes Vitae of Edvard I.
Hambro; "Tribute to Norway," (2 p. manuscript by Rosa André
(n.d.)); "Norwegian Rehabilitation Problems and Preliminary
Results," (typescript, 22 p., no author, n.d.); "Fact and Fiction in
the Norwegian War," by Edvard Hambro. Reprinted by the
American-Scandinavian Foundation. Dec. 1940; "Why Norway
Fights On," by Aase Gruda Skard (1941); "Teachers of a Democracy
Fight Nazism," by Aase Gruda Skard (1942); "The Man Whose
Name is Quisling," by Sigmund Skard (1942); "Norway: Three Years
of Achievement," by Wilhelm Morgenstierne (1943); added
2 "Memorial Park of Dombås" (June 25, 1988, by Norman Erickson).
3 Pamphlets.
4 Pamphlets.
(loose) Pamphlets, Newspapers. Added (on shelving) "Behind the
Blackout Curtains" (fiction, youth, 2007), by Ellen Dahlberg Zahl.
She experienced the German occupation of Norway and
immigrated to the U.S. in 1948 with her parents and older sister;
"The Norwegian Paperclip and other stories as told by Olav Richard
Crone-Aamot, a member of the Norwegian underground during
the German Occupation, April 9, 1940 to June 7, 1945,"
5 (self-published, West Virginia, 2011).

1942

1945

2

1 Scrapbook received from Mrs. Leland Amodt, Brewerton, N.Y.

1940

1945

1
1
1

�3

5

Pamphlets. Includes: Per Lorentzen &amp; Nortraship.
Issues of Norwegian newspapers, Sept. 1, 1939-April 10, 1940,
tracing early course of WW II. Includes: Okkupasjons (humor), Blix
de 5 Arene, Befrielsen (photos); Reproduction of Nell Hott painting
"Courage."; slides of King Haakon VII's return to Norway in June,
1945. Much of this is of superb quality and is certainly unique;
Book "Bombing or sabotage? A young girl's war experience and
the destiny of a resistance family," by Lita Deinboll Jenssen. (145
pages), commissioned by "The Committee of American Friends of
Norway, Inc.," with quotation from President Roosevelt concerning
Norwegian resistance on the cover. Gift of Peter Hammer, 1998.
Reviews of Kathleen Stokker's book "Folklore fights the Nazis:
humor in occupied Norway."
Four scrapbooks kept by Magne H. Grinde (Lock Haven,
Pennsylvania). Clippings of Norwegian Royal Family, WW II Norway
events, and general World War II, shipping news and new
launches, and early Norwegian sailors; Book: "En ø i krig" from
Bornholmerens Forlag.

2

(loose books/shelving) Norway in World War II. Scandinavian
Resistance Book Collection (includes Paul Wehr, Univ. of Colorado,
collection. Added May 2010).
(added May 2010): Two files with corresponding papers prepared
by Paul Wehr, Univ. of Colorado : Norwegian Resistance to Nazism
(1984) and Civil Resistance in Denmark: 1940-1945 (1976).

4

1940

1945

1940

2000

1940

1975

1943

2010

1976

1984

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