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A True story of a Norwegian Boy Under Nazi Rule | | Young Marta's life in Budapest has been shattered by the Second World War. Thanks to the courage of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg her family may have a chance of survival | | Norway's longest WWII escape. A True Story of Jan Baalrud and the people who helped him escape from the Gestapo. |
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This true, heartwarming story takes the reader back more than a half century to the post-war years of WWII in Norway. | | David Howarth, who was second in command of the Shetland base, recounts the hundreds of trips made by fishing boats in the dark of Arctic winter to resist the Nazi onslaught duting the occupation of Norway in WWII. | | Growing up in a concentration camp David escapes to find refuge in Denmark. An inspiring story of a brave boy's search for freedom. |
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A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944. A sensitive portrait of a remarkable young girl and her family. by Aranka Siegal (her story) | | When Benny Grunfeld was 16 years old, he and his family were forced from their home and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. This is his story. by Benny Grunfeld hardcover | | In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. Jewish identity and community in contemporary Denmark. bu Andrew Buckser paperback |
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Humor in Occupied Norway 1940 - 1945 by Kathleen Stokker paperback | | On 9 April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark, and then Norway, in an attempt to guarantee security of Scandinavia's vital mineral resources for their war industry. This assault, Operation Weserübung, represented the first joint air-land-and-sea campaign in the history of warfare, and was the only such campaign planned by the Wehrmacht high command, including all three services of the Wehrmacht. This book describes the events of this tumultuous campaign that not only led to Winston Churchill's appointment as British Prime Minister, but also saw the crippling of the German Kriegsmarine as a fighting force. | | |
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NORWAY'S most highly decorated WWII soldier and secret agent. A True Story about Hugo Munthe-Kaas. | | By Knut Haukelid. The "heavy water" produced at a facility in occupied Norway was vital to Hitler's race with the United States to developthe atomic bomb. Knut Haukelid's "Skis Against the Atom" gives the reader an intimate account of the valiant and self-sacrificing service that the no-to-be-subdued Norwegians performed for the whole free world. Paperback, 244pp. | ||
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