The Norwegian Press Directorate (Norwegian : Pressedirektoratet) was a Norwegian government agency within the Ministry of Culture and Enlightenment between 1940[ citation needed ] and 1945. Anders Beggerud was the director during the entire Second World War. [1]
The Norwegian campaign involved the attempt by Allied forces to defend northern Norway coupled with the resistance of the Norwegian military to the country's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.
Ivar Lykke was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party, who served as the 17th prime minister of Norway from 1926 to 1928. He was also president of the Storting from 1919 to 1927.
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy is located at Laksevåg in Bergen. It was formally established 27 October 1817 in Frederiksvern. The institution educates officers for the Royal Norwegian Navy.
Hartvikvatnet (Norwegian) or Árajávri (Northern Sami) is a lake in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 2.3-square-kilometre (0.89 sq mi) lake is located about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the village of Bjerkvik and just less than 20 kilometres (12 mi) with the border with Sweden. The Elvegårdsmoen military camp lies just west of the lake.
Emil Kvanlid was a Norwegian nordic combined skier who won the Nordic combined event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in both 1938 and 1940. Kvanlid belatedly earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1993.
Lars Bergendahl was a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed during the 1930s.
Sjur Lindebrække was a Norwegian banker and Conservative Party of Norway politician.
Lomnessjøen is a lake in Rendalen Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The villages Åkre and Otnes are located on the shores of the lake. The lake is part of the Renaelva river system. The Renaelva river flows into the lake from the north. The south end of the river drains into the larger lake Storsjøen which is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the south of this lake.
The A-class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
The Ministry of Culture and Enlightenment was a government ministry during the German occupation of Norway, established on 25 September 1940, and closed down at the end of World War II.
Fronten was a biweekly Norwegian newspaper.
Norsk-Tysk Tidsskrift was a Norwegian periodical, in existence during the German occupation of Norway.
The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, commonly known as the Norwegian Sports Confederation is the umbrella organization for sport in Norway. It is the largest volunteering organization in Norway, with more than 2 million members and 12,000 sports clubs in 19 region confederations and 54 national federations. The current president is Zaineb Al-Samarai.
Berit Nøkleby was a Norwegian historian.
The Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Sports was a government ministry during the German occupation of Norway.
The Administrative Council was a council established by the Supreme Court to govern Norway. The council of seven people was established on 15 April 1940, replacing Quisling's First Cabinet, and was led by Ingolf Elster Christensen. It was replaced on 25 September by another council by Josef Terboven, referred to in Norwegian as Josef Terboven's kommissariske statsråder.
Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945 is a Norwegian encyclopaedia covering the Second World War.
Sportsklubben Sprint-Jeløy is a Norwegian football club from Jeløya in Moss. The club was founded in 1926 when both Jeløy IF and SK Sprint was formed. The two clubs merged into Sportsklubben Sprint-Jeløy on 11 October 1940.
Agneta Pleijel is a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and literary critic. Among her plays are Ordning härskar i Berlin from 1979. Among her novels are Vindspejare from 1987 and Drottningens chirurg from 2006. She has been a professor at Dramatiska Institutet since 1992. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1991 and the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize in 2018.
Events from the year 1940 in Sweden