Today Oslo was thrown back 68 years to the April days of 1940. A Norwegian moviecompany is making a movie about a legendary, and highly decorated saboteur from WWII.

One of the largest scenes in the movie is from the 10th of April when the Germans first marched down the parade street of Oslo;



(Royal Palace in the background)

It looks like they chose to go on the safe side and not show to many unit badges or decorations, although you can see an Iron Cross in the background.



Also have to say chills went down my spine when I saw the swastika over the parliament building which for 2 hours was in the hands of the Germans again;



Really makes we want to do a diaroma a bit closer to home, nothing wrong with the bocage, but not exactly my backyard. But seeing this live and in color really makes we want to do something with it. They actually had some tanks and motorbikes, with sidecars, stashed away in a corner, but no news media has taken any photographs of them, oh the stupidity!

More pics if anyone wants to take a look (at the bottom); http://www.side2.no/film/article1760150.ece

Strange days indeed.

I'm sure that emotions are still running high after all these years so I hope everything goes well during the filming schedule and everyone gets thorough it knowing that it's just a movie. It must still be very hard for some and I hope not too much unpleasantness is dredged up for people and I hope they don't have to suffer through reliving the horrors of history.

Would this famous WWII saboteur be one of the the so called 'Telemark Heroes'?



Bob

well some people was a bit shocked but most took in a good spirit since its a movie about one of the good guys ;.-) The people that was most shocked was 3 German tourists that was on a tour of the Nordic countries...hehe....

The person that is the main focus of the movie is called Max Manus and was a member of the "Oslo Gang" during the war. He just stayed there. I think British intelligence after the war stated it to be the most efficient resistance crew during the war, so I should think they saw plenty of action

Excellent pics! Thanks for posting.
Hopefully the movie will be available in the US at some point.

I had a similar experience once-on the way to Kindergarden I witnesssed Pearl Harbor being attacked. Tora! Tora! Tora! was being filmed. About eight years ago I saw those same planes, modified Texans, at an air show.

Lars

Thanks for the link about Max Manus. I really had no idea who he was until now so I very much appreciate the information. He sounds like a true patriot and hero and I'd be glad to see the film about him if it's ever shown here in Canada.

thanks again

Bob

No prob mate

There are some gems of information hidden out there. Wikipedia is dangerous in that way, whenever I start browsing for information there I start following the different links, especially when it comes to WWII, and end up far from what ever I started looking for.

Lets see what will happen with the movie, I am really looking forward to it. If it goes abroad it will have to be with subtitles though

It is funny, but having grown up with black and white footage of WW2, it somehow doesn't feel "right" when you see it in color. But it brings some of the reality back to something you can become disconnected with. Like the difference between seeing an automobile accident on the television and seeing one happen right in front of you. I don't know if I am expressing what I mean clearly enough. Sometimes we become so wrapped up in the details of modeling that we forget what history our models represent.

those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. never forget!

Aaaaah - you're another WILF.

That's a common phenomenon known as WILFing, i.e. when you get so busy following interesting new links that you forget what it was you were originally looking for - in other words " What did I Log on For"???

Apparently, men are far bigger WILFers than women.

- Steve