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

Goodbye friends

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