Help, after blank pages from the Norge Government !!!!!

Hello,

This caught my interest and as I’m a Norwegian student, I can try give you some advice.

First of all, have you tried to contact “Forsvaret”, in other words, the military in Norway? They have something called the decorating-council, and their responsibilities are to decide who to decorate etc. You can try to send an e-mail to: veterantjenesten@mil.no which is where every question about veterans should be sent.

Also, if you have done that, you could try is to send an e-mail to a history-professor which specialize in occupation-history, and explain your situation to them. Maybe they can give you some advice on who to contact in the Norwegian government, or in the military.

One person you could try is Ole Kristian Grimnes (google him and you get his email) as he has written books about the occupation.

What you should do when writing them is having a very clear (and juicy) subject-text. As historians would be very interested in this, you should be short and precise.

I hope this was somewhat helpful.

Hi Fenre

First of all, i would like to apologise to you for not replying to your Email sooner, i would also like to thank you for taking the time to help/advise me. I will be following your advice in contacting the Norwegian Military department you mentioned, if that fails in getting an answer i will then contact the Historian mentioned above.

In referance to giving the Historian/Professor a juicy/story, i will try my best but my father rarely talked about his Army service during the war and when he did, he only gave the briefest of details and never mentioned being involved in anything of a major importance.

Hopefully the Hist/Prof will be able to clarify/confirm my fathers war service and certain events that my father may have been involved in during his time stationed at the "Achershuss fortress" in the days just after the German surrender in Norway.

Del