What happened after the end of the fighting in the war, and the occupation of Germany by the Allies.

Link:
Graham Chandler, "The Happiest Prisoners," Legion magazine, 15 March 2012 https://legionmagazine.com/the-happiest-prisoners

Sources
Anonymous (Marta Hillers), A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City, A Diary. Berlin: Die Andere Bibliothek, 2011.

Harald Jahner, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945—1955. New York, USA: Borzoi Books published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Paul Roland, Life After the Third Reich: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited, 2018.

From 1940 to 1945, steady traffic across the North Sea from the Shetland Islands to the west coast of Norway evacuated civilians and brought in agents, weapons, arms and intelligence.

Author J.L. Oakley joins the podcast again to describe this under-appreciated part of World War 2.

Map: The Shetland Bus route

Links

Books

• Hearts Across the Sea video about the Shetland Bus
• Operation Rype
• The Jossing Affair
• The Quisling Factor
• The Brisling Code

The Scalloway Museum

Historical photos: See the web page for this episode.

The Scalloway Museum, Shetland Is.

Shetland Bus exhibit in the Scalloway Museum

Typical Norwegian fishing boat in the Shetland Bus system.

Bill Moore of the Scalloway Museum (left) with model of boat and modeler Tron Hvilding.

Lunna House, Shetland

Bomlo Is. and Shetland Is.

Bliya monument

Submarine chaser Vigra, 1943

Wreck of the Hitra

Hitra restored

Lief "Shetlands" Larsen

Below: Norwegian liberation day

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The nazis thought they would find a brethren Nordic race in Norway. The people's resistance to their occupation brought about an even more brutal occupation.

Part 2 of the conversation with author J.L. Oakley

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A conversation with J.L. Oakley, author of three historical novels set in Norway during the German occupation of 1940 to 1945

Like the Eastern Front, Norway’s experience during the Second World War is not well known in the English-speaking world. Author Janet Oakley is helping correct that.

• The Jossing Affair
• The Quisling Factor
• The Brisling Code

Hitler's Northern Utopia by Dispina Stratigakos
Gold Run by Robert Pearson
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Historian and author of Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito and the Descent into Total War

James Scott’s latest book, Empire of Ashes, describes in detail the flights that brought nuclear bombs to Japan in August 1945. It also draws intimate portraits of the two leading antagonists on those days, U.S. President Harry Truman and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, from their earliest days through the personal transformations that ushered in a new era of warfare.

In July and August, the leaders and delegations from the “Big Three” victors of the Second World War reshape the borders of Europe and set up a new world order.

The USA, UK and USSR have defeated nazi Germany. The Allies control Europe. In July 1945, the leaders Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin meet outside Berlin to decide what to do with it.

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