In 1942, Norway had been under Nazi German occupation for two years. On 5 May, a team of Norwegian resistance fighters in a village near Trondheim were preparing to carry out what the Allied forces saw as the top priority sabotage operation in Norway at this stage in the war. One local family would become central to the action. The nephew of the resistance fighter’s leader told me the story for Witness History on the BBC World Service.
How Norway’s resistance helped severely hamper Nazi Germany’s war machine
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