17 May during the occupation of Norway
Celebration in a garden in Baghdad in 1941
A day to celebrate freedom: 17 May
On May 17 , 1940, all celebrations in Norway of and flag-raising on the national day were banned by the German-controlled Administrative Council. The flag was increasingly used as a visual protest against the occupying power, and the Germans implemented more and more regulations to counter this. The photos on this page are taken from the archive of photographer Finn Bergan and show May 17 celebrations in a garden in Baghdad 1941.
The archive is part of the photo collections managed by The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology . All digitized images can be used free of charge for any purpose in the resolution that can be downloaded from Digitalt museum or the museum's own website. As a user of the image, you are responsible for complying with obligations such as privacy and the photographer's right to respectful reproduction.
Finn was on a long journey by train and boat to Canada and the USA to receive training as an aerial photographer for the Allied forces during World War II.
We quote from wikipedia:
Finn Bergan (born 9 July 1918 in Rjukan, died 25 March 1986 in Oslo) was a Norwegian cinematographer.
Bergan received his war photography training from Louis de Rochemont in New York in 1941. He came to the United Kingdom , and filmed and photographed at the Norwegian branches of the Norwegian Information Service in London. He then joined RAF Bomber Command , where as a flight lieutenant he became head of the photography department in 101 Squadron RAF. On 27 September 1943 he participated as a photographer and gunner on a sortie to Hanover . The plane, an Avro Lancaster , was shot down, but Bergan managed to parachute out . He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war . [5]
He made his debut in 1948 as a B-film photographer for Kampen om tungtvannet and the same year Trollfossen. In 1949 he had a photo on Gategutter, and since then he has been one of the most used feature film photographers in Norwegian cinema. He photographed a number of Arne films, including Circus Fandango (1954) and It's Burning Tonight! (1955). He was also a photographer on such diverse films as Vi gifter oss (1951), the Tarjei Vesaasfilm adaptation of Dei svarte hestane (1951) and several of Ivo Caprino's films, including Ugler i mosen (1959) and Caprino's fully animated films, including Sjuende far i huset (1966), Askeladden og de gode hjelpern (1961) and Tim og Tøffe (1949).
He also worked for NRK.
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External sources:
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