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The main quartet itself was in Lillehammer Turisthotell, a couple of hundred meters further down the hill. The Third Reich was on the ropes. It was here that the layout of the country was to be decided. General Franz Böhme awaited the signal from Germany. On April, Føraren had shacked up with his wife, Eva Braun, in the bunker, fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism , as Knut Hamsun put it in the obituary he wrote in Aftenposten.
At least he was consistent to the end, the poet. Norway last out Everything was moible number data open in Norway these May days. In Festung Norwegen, , healthy soldiers stood ready for battle. In addition, NS had between , men. The campaign for Berlin from April to May had cost more than , Soviet soldiers their lives in the armies of Zhukov, Konev and Rokossovsky. That number was not far from the combined losses each to the United States and Great Britain during the entire war. In Norway, it was unclear until the end when the capitulation would come, if at all.

Food for the Russian prisoners The Paulsen family were part of this drama. Even they did not live in Nybuvegen these weeks the house was taken over . John had got hold of a basket of herring one day. Along Nybuvegen, Russian prisoners of war were assigned to dig trenches for the communications centre. John pours out the basket of herring for them. looking after him with a herring in the corner of his mouth. That would make you very thirsty, he thought. The German saw another way On another occasion, mother Frida Paulsen had put out a pot of potatoes meant for the prisoners.
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