There is still a flood of books, TV series and movies about World War II. Why do we never finish “the latest news about the war” – 80 years later?
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Knut Olav ÅmåsWriter and director of the Fritt Ord Foundation
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There is a place in Oslo that I call “the quietest place in Norway” “It is Akershuskaia down by the fjord, where the slave ship Danube transported 529 Norwegian Jews to the concentration and extermination camps on November 26, 1942. On the quay stood the 21-year-old author Gunvor “I saw my friend, the only one, I saw her go to die,” Hofmo wrote.
“What did you do during the war, Grandpa?” is a question children still ask. The stories they receive are sometimes truthful, sometimes they magnify the facts, other times they hide choices that were dramatically wrong. For many Norwegian citizens also actively participated in the abuses against, for example, the small Jewish minority.
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