Norwegian resistance movement
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Not to be confused with Nordic Resistance Movement.
The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian: Motstandsbevegelsen) to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:
- Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, and by implication the lack of legitimacy of Vidkun Quisling's pro-Nazi regime and Josef Terboven's military administration
- The initial defence in Southern Norway, which was largely disorganised, but succeeded in allowing the government to escape capture
- The more organised military defence and counter-attacks in parts of Western and Northern Norway, aimed at securing strategic positions and the evacuation of the government
- Armed resistance, in the form of sabotage, commando raids, assassinations and other special operations during the occupation
- Civil disobedience and unarmed resistance
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Part of European theatre of World War II | |||||||
Soviets meet Norwegians sheltering in a mine in Finnmark | |||||||
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Norway Norwegian resistance groups United Kingdom United States (from 1941) Soviet Union (from 1944) Poland | |||||||
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Haakon VII Winston Churchill |
Vidkun Quisling Josef Terboven Franz Böhme |
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