Organization Todt and forced labor in Norway 1940 – 1945
Tour of the exhibition
"(...) The most impressive building program since Roman times"
Allied intelligence, at the end of World War II
Photo: The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology / Kathrine Daniloff
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 watch a film from the last tour of the physical exhibition, by researcher and exhibition curator, first conservator Ketil Gjølme Andersen.
Photographer: Thomas Buikema Fjærtoft.
