Portal:Norway/Selected picture/15

Norwegian Royal family returning from exile

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

Credit: Zimmerman, E A (Lt) - Royal Navy official photographer

Starting with the invasion of April 9, 1940, Norway was under military occupation of German forces and civil rule of a German commissioner in collaboration with a pro-German puppet government. The occupation ended May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe.