• Festung Norwegen (transl. Fortress Norway) was the extensive defense and fortification system constructed in Norway, part of the Atlantic Wall, after the...
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  • Kaliningrad (Festung Königsberg) For entire countries such as Norway which were heavily fortified in World War II. See Festung Norwegen. For proposed...
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    Atlantic pockets Atlantic Wall Czechoslovak border fortifications Festung Norwegen Fortress Europe Maginot line Molotov line Stalin line Valtellina Redoubt...
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  • it". (author Stephen E. Ambrose) Valtellina Redoubt National Redoubt Festung Norwegen German World War II fortresses Explanatory notes "Himmler started laying...
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    was a massive construction by the German Forces as part of creating Festung Norwegen, including large sections of the Nordland Line and the completion of...
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    architecture Atlantic Wall Plan Z Festung Norwegen Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany Reichskommissariat Norwegen Drontheim is the traditional German...
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    wooden runway was completed. The expansion was part of the plans for Festung Norwegen and was used as a bomber base for attacks on Northern Norway. By May...
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    Formations (4 July 1943), 2005, p. 41 Hogg, p. 228 Monsen, Kurt (2000). "Festung Norwegen Artillery Group 9". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved...
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  • War II fortresses / Fortress Europe Alpine Fortress Atlantic Wall Festung Norwegen Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen Siegfried Line Floriana Lines, Floriana...
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    October 1944 – 26 April 1945 Location Finnmark, Norway Result Allied victory Territorial changes Finnmark liberated German withdrawal into Festung Norwegen...
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    turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise Festung Norwegen (Fortress Norway) for the Nazi regime's last stand. However, after...
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  • 3 Hitler's Italian Fortress Gothic Line 4 Hitler's Arctic Fortress Festung Norwegen 5 Hitler's Propaganda Machine Propaganda in Nazi Germany 6 Hitler's...
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    Böhme. To Böhme, in turn, he gave the task of how the capitulation of Festung Norwegen was to be implemented. There were around 15,000 German soldiers in...
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    evidence of cancelled plans for moving Hitler's inner circle members—to Festung Norwegen. (In the last months of the war, Hauge had secret talks with Wehrmacht...
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    Wehrmacht in occupied Norway during the Second World War as part of Festung Norwegen. At Fauske, the line connected with the Nordland Line, and construction...
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  • Deutsche Schiffe kontrollieren die See Dänemark und Norwegen unter Deutschem Schutz Vormarsch in Norwegen Im Morgengrauen des 10. Mai 1940 Vorwärts durch...
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    145 L modèle 1916 Saint-Chamond A 14.5 cm K 405(f) emplacement in Festung Norwegen. Type Heavy artillery Coastal Artillery Place of origin  France Service...
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    the Battle of Britain, and was afterwards made part of the defensive Festung Norwegen. The hangars saw a limited use after the end of World War II. From...
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  • PA: Stackpole Books, 1997 ISBN 1-85367-480-X Kosar, Franz. Eisenbahngeschütz der Welt. Stuttgart: Motorbook, 1999 ISBN 3-613-01976-0 Festung Norwegen...
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    prevent the Allies from entering the Frøysjøen strait, as part of Festung Norwegen. "Berle, Bremanger (Sogn og Fjordane)". yr.no. Retrieved 2019-10-17...
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    wooden runway was completed. The expansion was part of the plans for Festung Norwegen and was used as a bomber base for attacks on Northern Norway, and by...
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    were built by the German Wehrmacht during World War II as part of Festung Norwegen. Three of the fortifications, Akershus, Bergenshus and Karljohansvern...
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    priority for the German occupation forces, as part of the creation of Festung Norwegen. Several lines were extended or constructed, with mostly poor quality...
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  • Biblio Verlag. p. 189. ISBN 978-3-7648-1181-5. Tessin, Georg (1976). "Festungs-Grenadier-Rgt. 856". Die Landstreitkräfte 801–13400. Verbände und Truppen...
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