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Sleeping with the enemy

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:46:44 +0000

Front cover of Helle Aarnes' "Tyskerjentene"

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love. Problem is, it’s WWII and the boy is a German soldier. Recent figures suggest that as many as 100 000 Norwegian women dropped their panties for the invading warriors of Nazi-Germany.

We Norwegian are good people but sometimes we are led astray. [...]

Document.no:’Inspirational and Painful Loss’

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:49:46 +0000

Is it a blog? Is it a grassroots movement? Is it a publishing house? Document.no is all of them and more. It also publishes in English. Here is an excerpt from “Inspirational and painful loss” on Norwegian casualties in Afghanistan:

A debate has been raised after the loss of four invaluable Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan. This [...]

‘Churchill not significantly different from Hitler’

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:30:41 +0000

Screenshot from Morgenbladet, July 2010

The screenshot above is from Trond Berg Eriksen’s review of Nicholson Baker’s “Menneskerøyk” (Norwegian translation) in Morgenbladet. The review is fair enough except at times it is difficult to understand whether Eriksen is endorsing Baker’s stance or merely sketching out the book’s contents. This becomes especially important in a section [...]

Book: ‘Jews on the run’

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Book by war hero Ragnar Ulstein, from Det norske samlaget

736 Norwegian Jews, almost half the population, were sent to the killing fields of WWII. Only a few survived.

In the book “Jews on the run” WWII hero Ragnar Ulstein commemorates the heroes of the saga. And yes, there were heroes. Not enough [...]

Book on Labor and the Nazi occupation of Norway

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:52:46 +0000

Oliver H. Langeland's book on Labor and WWII

New historians are making a big fuss over the Shoah in Norway, arguing that the Norwegian Jews were sent to their deaths not by German occupiers, but by their fellow Norwegians. Now “Dømmer ikke” (Not in judgement) a book by an old officer and resistance-man, Oliver H. [...]

Senterpartiet, Quisling and the Jews

admin — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:23:45 +0000

The Bondepartiet which nurtured Vidkun Quisling is very much alive. Today it is named Senterpartiet, and it unashamedly advocates the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state though supporting the Palestinian “right of return”

The largely agrarian Senterpartiet (Center party) holds that Israel must return to the borders of 1967. The fact [...]

Winston Churchill illuminates value of Norwegian advice

admin — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:12:24 +0000

Churchill & the Jews, (2007 McMillan press) is penned by Martin Gilbert, who has dozens of books to his name and was named official biographer of Winston Churchill in 1968. The book is a roller coaster ride through the life and times of a man who stood at the helm of things throughout some of [...]

Bjørn Westlie on the war of our fathers

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:12:48 +0000

Bjørn Westlie: "Father's war"

Bjørn Westlie is a Norwegian journalist and author. The son of a “frontkjemper”, one of thousands of Norwegian men who bore arms for the Reich, he has wrestled with anti-Semitism and WWII history for all his life. The graphic above show the cover of his book “Father’s war”. The unauthorized translation [...]

Norwegians and the Holocaust

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:14:39 +0000

Aftenposten.no today

Aftenposten.no reports on how historian Synne Corell claims that Norwegian historians have omitted going into detail on Norwegian cooperation with the Germans during the WWII occupation, and that this particularly holds true for the roles Norwegians played in carrying out the Holocaust. Unauthorized translation:

Corell does not desire to criticize the historical works she [...]

Norvège: un héros de la 2de Guerre mondiale réagit à l’antisémitisme

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:06:11 +0000

Ah, Gunnar “Kjakan” Sønsteby. A real Norwegian hero.

La négation de l’Holocauste et la haine des Juifs a essentiellement apparu chez les jeunes immigrants originaires du Moyen-Orient. Mais ce qui s’est passe ne doit pas être considéré comme un problème affectant une minorité. C’est un phénomène que toute la Norvège doit prendre au sérieux.”(Gunnar Sonsteby)

WWII hero Gunnar Sønsteby, better known under his nomme de guerre “The Jaw”, has seen anti-Semitism before. Now he calls for action against it. Unauthorized translation from Aftenposten’s article “Ber om aksjon mot jødehat” on April 8th, 2010, by journalist Halvor Tjønn:

There is only one road to walk: that [...]

From Marx to Quisling

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:21:01 +0000

Prominent Norwegians such as Kristin Halvorsen, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse are not actually doing anything new. They are merely part of a political tradition of the Norwegian left-wing which stretches back to at least the 1930-ies. One of the authors to deal with this aspect of Norwegian political history is Øystein Sørensen, who in his [...]

Author reacts to ‘Mein Kampf’ title of bestselling colleague

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:19:28 +0000

Author Bomann-Larsen reacts to "Mein Kampf" title of bestselling colleague

Bestselling Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård is working on a six-volume autobiography titled “Min Kamp” which translates quite nicely into the German “Mein Kampf”. This is worthy of attention not only because “Mein Kampf” is the title of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, but because Mr.Knausgård [...]

Code cracked – spies listening everywhere

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:46:13 +0000

Loose lips sink ships

Until quite recently the more ludicrous aspects of the Norwegian debate on the Middle East were a closely kept national secret, shared only by the select few who mastered Norsk, a code originally developed by the Bavarian Illuminati. Now it appears that the code has been broken and that code-cracking foreigners [...]

Deceased: Leader of Warsaw uprising Marek Edelman

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Marek Edelman z’l has passed away. Mr. Edelman was one of the leaders during the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. You can read more about him here.

Several prominent Norwegian citizens have compared Operation Cast Lead to the events in which Mr. Edelman participated. Among them are: leader of Rødt (Political party) Torstein Dahle, NORWAC [...]