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Organization Todt and forced labor in Norway 1940 – 1945

Oslo

«(...) Det mest imponerende byggeprogrammet siden romertiden»
Alliert etterretning, på slutten av 2. verdenskrig

Foreign prisoners of war and forced laborers built the country. Roads, bridges, airports, railways, port facilities, power plants, industrial buildings and fortifications were left behind by the occupying power when the Second World War ended. Many of the buildings are still in use. Around 130,000 prisoners of war and civilian forced laborers were sent here to the country to realize German construction projects. Of these, around 17,000 died after inhumane treatment.

Here you can see pictures from Oslo.

The pictures below are in The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology 's collection, ps, unknown photographer.

Schools in Oslo

Oslo Museum, OB.F15699, photographer: unknown

National Archives, PA1209_Ue_L0098_4_7643, photographer: unknown

Grossraum_1360_PA1209_Ue_L0098_4_1273A, photographer: unknown


Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.

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