MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I can relate to Stigs story of the Nazis invasion of Denmark....then onto my Grandfathers home in Norway when the Nazis invaded there.
My Grandmothers town Andalsnes near the west coast of Norway was flattened by German bombers, but the Germans had a tougher time in the Hegra region where my Grandfather's farm was situated near the Hegra Fortress.
In 1940 a small army of 250 Norwegian soldiers and 1 woman nurse held off the Nazis for 25 days. Very fierce battle and when the Norwegians surrendered and became POWs, Hitler was so impressed with them that they were set free.
My Grandfather was farming in Canada at the time but his brothers and many relatives were a part of that army fortress group. Upon my visit to that area there is still a motar shell lodged in a wall on a building of my Grandfathers farm which was originally built in 1845.
Our descendents have farmed there since early Viking times on the shore of the Stjordalselva River.....highway to the North Sea and the North Atlantic.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hegra_Fortress
Here's post 12 - what is weird about it?