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Originally Posted by Racoon
Norway lost 5,000 service men. They endured some Nazi occupation when they left Finland.
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Sorry - this isn't correct. Norway was occupied on April 9, 1940 unrelated to Finland. We were under Nazi rule until May 8, 1945. Although our army capitulated after only a few months of battle, we had a very strong resistance.
The famous Telemark Batallion wrote history when they blew up the heavy water plant at Rjukan, Telemark - perhaps the single most important event which prevented the Germans from creating the nuclear bomb.
http://odin.dep.no/odin/engelsk/norw...032005-990466/
The 5,000 deaths were mostly seamen. I think the correct figure for enlisted soldiers was less than 1,000.
