{"id":335,"date":"2010-05-09T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=335"},"modified":"2010-05-09T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:25:11","slug":"norwegian-liberation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/norwegian-liberation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Liberation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frigj\u00f8ringsdagen<\/strong>, as it is called <strong>p\u00e5 norsk<\/strong>, is a very important day in Norwegian history that\u00a0does not receive proper attention\u00a0because\u00a0it is greatly overshadowed by <strong>syttende mai<\/strong> (May 17th, Norway&#8217;s Constitution Day).\u00a0 <strong>Frigj\u00f8ringsdagen<\/strong> is the day that Norway was officially liberated from Nazi\u00a0forces.\u00a0 65 years ago on May 8, 1945, <em>Josef Terboven<\/em>, Reichskommisar (Norwegian commissioner in Norway, who had almost complete control of the country) was forced to accept defeat and hand over <strong>makten<\/strong> (the power) to the Allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within one week of Hitler&#8217;s <strong>selvmord<\/strong> (suicide) on April 30th, 1945, <strong>det politiske landskapet <\/strong>(the political landscape) in Norway completely changed.\u00a0 One week seems like such a short amount of time, just a blip\u00a0on the timeline of the war, for so much to change.\u00a0 On May 5th, the Nazis in Denmark <strong>overgav seg<\/strong> (surrendered).\u00a0 That same day, American General Dwight Eisenhower sent a telegram to Norway with instructions regarding how Norway was to make contact with the Allies headquarters. \u00a0The official military <strong>overgivelse<\/strong> (surrender) of the Germans was signed in Reims, France on May 7.\u00a0 <strong>Norske flagg<\/strong> (Norwegians flags) were flown for the first time since before <strong>krigen<\/strong> (the war).\u00a0 On the evening of the 7th, German Commander-in-Chief, <em>General B\u00f6hme<\/em>, announced on the Norwegian radio at 22:00 that the Germans would be handing over <strong>makten<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the months preceding\u00a0<strong>overgivelsen<\/strong> of the Germans, the Norwegian resistance movement had become quite active.\u00a0 Working with the the <strong>regjering <\/strong>(government) in hiding in London, the resistance movement prepared for the liberation.\u00a0 Once word got out of the <strong>overgivelse<\/strong>, the resistance movement, known as <em>Milorg<\/em> (<strong>Milit\u00e6r organisasjon<\/strong>), 40,000 strong, mobilised and occupied the Royal Palace, the <strong>politistasjon<\/strong> (police station), and other strategic public buildings.\u00a0 On May 8, the <strong>overgivelse<\/strong> was official.\u00a0 That same day, <em>Josef Terboven<\/em> <strong>begikk selvmord<\/strong> (committed suicide)by detonating <strong>en bombe<\/strong> (a bomb) \u00a0in a bunker\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>Skaugum <\/em>compound.\u00a0 <em>Kronprins Haakon<\/em> and his wife <em>Mette-Marit<\/em> now occupy <em>Skaugum<\/em>, which is just \u00a015 miles outside of Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>5 days after the official <strong>overgivelse<\/strong> of the Germans, <em>Kronprins Olav<\/em> and the other government prepresentatives\u00a0returned to Oslo from hiding in London.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until the June 7 (coincidentally the 40th aniversary of the\u00a0dissolution of the union between Norway\u00a0and Sweden)\u00a0that <em>Kong Haakon VII<\/em> and the rest of the members of the royal family returned to Oslo.\u00a0\u00a0 It must have felt incredible to regain <strong>makt<\/strong> again after 5 years in exile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The conditions of the <strong>overgivelse<\/strong> included immediate arrestation and internment\u00a0of all German and Norwegian Nazi party members, disarm all SS troops, and send all Germany forces (no fewer than 400,000) to designated areas.\u00a0 As far as the fate of <strong>forr\u00e6drer <\/strong>(traitors) and <strong>samarbeidere<\/strong>\u00a0 (collaborators), they were granted due process trials.\u00a0 In the end 37 were <strong>henrettet<\/strong> (executed), 25 <strong>nordmenn<\/strong> and 12 <strong>tyskere<\/strong> (Germans).\u00a0 20,000 (mostly Norwegians, although some Germans) were imprisoned.\u00a0 There were many Nazi sympathizers.\u00a0 There were also, as mentioned before, many who fought for the reisistance movement, which I will dedicate an entire post to another time.\u00a0 Stay tuned, and when you celebrate <strong>syttende mai<\/strong>, don&#8217;t forget to remember this time of year 65 years ago when Norway celebrated <strong>frigj\u00f8ring<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frigj\u00f8ringsdagen, as it is called p\u00e5 norsk, is a very important day in Norwegian history that\u00a0does not receive proper attention\u00a0because\u00a0it is greatly overshadowed by syttende mai (May 17th, Norway&#8217;s Constitution Day).\u00a0 Frigj\u00f8ringsdagen is the day that Norway was officially liberated from Nazi\u00a0forces.\u00a0 65 years ago on May 8, 1945, Josef Terboven, Reichskommisar (Norwegian commissioner in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/norwegian-liberation-day\/\">Continue 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