Events in the year 1941 in Norway. Government in Exile (in London) Monarch – Haakon VII. Prime Minister – Johan Nygaardsvold (Labour Party) German Military...
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The theatre strike in Norway in 1941 was a conflict between Norwegian actors and Nazi authorities, during the German occupation of the country. The strike...
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events and releases of the year 1941 in Norwegian music. January 27 – Iver Holter, musician and band leader, Norwegian Army Band (born 1850). December...
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raiders used Norway as a staging base to reach the North Atlantic. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, air bases in Norway were also used...
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1941 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1941. 1941 (MCMXLI) was...
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Detachment of Army Norway took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. In talks between Finnish and German staffs in Helsinki in June 1941, the Germans were...
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ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the capitulation of German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945. Throughout this period, a pro-German...
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June 1941, Fleet Air Arm aircraft flew from the aircraft carriers HMS Victorious and Furious to attack merchant vessels in the northern Norwegian port...
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The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Citizen...
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Demographic features of the population of Norway, including Jan Mayen, and Svalbard, where the hospital is not equipped for births, include population...
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Operation Claymore (category 1941 in Norway)
island and join the Free Norwegian Forces. The force began its assembly at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands on 21 February 1941 and remained there for almost...
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Quisling regime (redirect from State of Norway (1942-1945))
Quisling in German-occupied Norway during the Second World War. The official name of the regime from 1 February 1942 until its dissolution in May 1945...
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The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940. In 1942, there were at least 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of them were arrested, detained...
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Norway 1941 was a battle honour awarded to units of the British and Imperial Armies that took part in one or more of the following operations in the Second...
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Executive (SOE) group formed in March 1941 originally for the purpose of performing commando raids during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Organized...
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II. It was formed in German-occupied Norway on 29 June 1941, in support of the war aims of Nazi Germany. The unit was disbanded in 1943. The unit was...
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Operation Archery (category 1941 in Norway)
World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941. British Commandos of No. 3 Commando, two troops of No. 2 Commando...
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There are 697 tunnels and 2,760 bridges. The Norwegian Railway Directorate manages the railway network in Norway on behalf of the Ministry of Transportation...
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Time" (Paukenschlag) EJ (1941) – British anti-shipping operation off Norway Enclose (1943) – British anti-submarine air offensive in Bay of Biscay (also Enclose...
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Svalbard (redirect from Svalbard (Norway))
SVAHL-bar(d), Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr]), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North...
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Corps Norway (German: Gebirgskorps Norwegen) was a German army unit during World War II. It saw action in Norway and Finland. The corps was formed in July...
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Norwegian-staffed RAF squadrons. Although basic training took place in "Little Norway", by 1941, students selected as fighter pilots began to receive advance...
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Ragnar Skancke (category Norwegian expatriates in Germany)
Quisling, Blix, Oslo 1941 (in Norwegian) Ein Buch über Vidkun Quisling, Blix, Oslo 1941 (German translation) (in German) Norwegian Government Official Website:...
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territories and dependencies). It was traditionally known as the Norwegian crown in English; however, this has fallen out of common usage. It is nominally...
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Mutt and Jeff (spies) (category Norwegian people of World War II)
were two Norwegian spies who worked for the United Kingdom and MI5 and were members of the Double Cross System. In April 1941 two Norwegians, John "Helge"...
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on 6 November 1941, commanded by General Hisaichi Terauchi, who had previously been minister of war. It was ordered to prepare for war in the event that...
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Oslo (redirect from Oslo, Norway)
Oslo (Norwegian: [ˈʊ̂ʂlʊ] or [ˈʊ̂slʊ, ˈʊ̀ʂlʊ]; Southern Sami: Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and...
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Operation Rubble (category 1941 in Norway)
Operation Rubble in January 1941, was a British blockade running operation during the Second World War, in which five Norwegian merchant ships escaped...
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by 9 April and when they became operational with the 330 (Norwegian) Squadron in May 1941 they were stationed at Reykjavík, Iceland performing anti-submarine...
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Birželio sukilimas) was a brief period of the history of Lithuania in late June 1941 between the first Soviet and the Nazi occupations. A year prior, on...
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