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At the top of Hitler's wish list

Book review written by Kjetil Korslund
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
Forfatter: Despina Stratigakos
Forlag: Princeton University Press (USA)
BUILT NORWAY: Nazi Germany's plans for Norway were extensive. We were to become part of the Great Germanic Empire. In the years 1940–1945, large parts of Norway were a construction site.

It was not just strategic considerations that did that Nazi Germany priority to occupy Norway. Our history, nature, culture, and not least our race, were elements the Nazis were more than happy to see as part of the Great Germanic Empire they wanted to establish. "North" was not primarily a direction or a place, but a spirit in the people.

This embrace of the Norwegian had several effects. For example, the Germans constructed a story in which they took credit for taking care of it. . .

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Kjetil Korslund
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