Germans bury their fallen after a skirmish during the Norwegian campaign, end of April or May 1940.

Goodbye friends

Possible booby traps presence inside the ruins: warning for the Allied troops, during the operations in the Rapido Valley, South-Central Italy, Spring 1944. Victor Sierra

Booby traps

Victorious Germans relax in the Norwegian town Hamar in June or July 1940. Notice the bird.

The innovative and dynamic German occupation forces immediately started many major building projects all over the primitive country, and actually kicked Norway out of the almost Middle Ages and into the modern era.