There are certain stories and narratives that you only come across once you live in the country in which they once happened in. Then when you slowly understand the peculiarities and then when you can actually speak and read the language of its people. Then you find frightening but also absolutely charming articles and ask yourself more often why you have never heard of this or that topic before and why there is so little to be found in English about it.

Little seems to be known of what happened in Norway during the Second World War. How did Germans treat the Norwegian people. What happened here between 1939 -1945. How much suffering did we Germans bring onto this wonderful country? Can we therefore try to understand how this nation treated its women who had fallen in love or had children with German soldiers? 

As part of my Demmin Novel project, I have already read about the stories around the Tyskerjentene, but during that time I also came across other topics that I would like to shed more light on, because I think that many people feel the same way as I did, and have, just like I never heard of these stories in the news or in their history classes.

I thought I could use this site to translate Norwegian articles with content that might also be of interest to English speaking readers. The selection of topics and articles is random and entirely my own. I deliberately chose this style of presentation to minimize changes to the mood and content of the topics and to present them "as Norwegian as possible."

So what you will read here are mostly translations of original articles from the Norwegian media, Norwegian researchers and recognized journalists. All of whom have given me permission to translate their work.