Battle of Narvik

bearhunter said:
Good grief, the Brits were sending clandestine firearms to the Nowegian resistance within a week after the Germans invaded.
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I don't doubt that the British supplied arms to the Norwegian resistance. However, I'm not questioning the supplying of arms to the resistance. Norgwegian regulars leaving their barracks, and carrying SMLEs, marching past the Germans the day they (the Germans) landed is questionable. The naval battles had yet to occur at this point, never mind the landings and subsequent battles for control of the town and port. I think it was just a matter of expedience for the film makers in the knowledge that most viewers wouldn't notice or know the difference.
 
The regulars shown in the movie were pretty much "resistance" at this point in time and they used whatever was at hand.

The Poles that went to Norway used SMLEs and Mausers.


Most likely the Quislings were LIBERALS
 
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As difficult as one can imagine it now, some Norwegian girls fell in love with German soldiers, as simple as that. I lived in Norway in the past and had the opportunity to meet 2 of those 'german children', 'tysk barn' as they were called in Norway. The Norwegian girls and their children were very badly discriminated against in Norway after the war. Yes, the Abba singer was one of them, she spent most of her life in Sweden because of that.
 
There's estimates that German soldiers fathered 500,000 children in France and up to 2 million in the East.
 
bearhunter said:
The Poles that went to Norway used SMLEs and Mausers.
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Apparently not. The Polish Independent Highland Brigade (Samodzielna Brygada Strzelców Podhalanskich) was formed in France in 1939 and equipped by the French. They used the MAS 36 rifles. Ironically, originally the Brigade was supposed to be sent to Finland to help Finns in the Winter War with the Soviets.
 
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