Germans on exercise outside Oslo in January 1941. Wehrmacht did not allow their personnel to become soft during the years of occupation in Norway.

Exercise in Norway

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.

Summer sunshine

Germans party with Norwegian women in the small town of Drøbak. 

The handsome German occupation soldiers were despite all odds very popular amongst Norwegian women, and 12 000 "tyskerbarn" with German father and Norwegian mother was born during the war. The women were treated badly by their compatriots after the war, and the children themselves were treated as unwanted imbeciles by the Socialist government.

The singer Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad from the Swedish band ABBA was a tyskerbarn, and her mother had to flee Norway after the war.