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forces stationed at the camp, the Norwegians were able to carry out their mission undetected. The reclaimed supplies were taken partly to the fortress and partly to a number of nearby farms. When a force of 250 soldiers had been assembled, Holtermann had to turn away further volunteers due to the fact he could not arm or equip any more soldiers than those he already had under his command at that point. From 12 April work was carried out to reactivate the fortress's artillery, which was found to have plentiful ammunition, but no direction systems or charts for indirect fire. Only a few 1:100,000-scale maps were available at the fortress. The actual artillery charts for the fortress were stored in Trondheim and fell into the hands of the Germans on 9 April and were used by the Wehrmacht during the siege to deploy artillery in places that the fortress could not hit. The same day troops of Holtermann's unit were positioned around

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had been brought to Hegra village and the doctors feared that there had been numerous casualties on the Norwegian side as well. Permission for the mission was granted, and the shelling of Hegra Fortress was temporarily suspended while local volunteers made their way up to the fortress, pulling ski sleds for the wounded. While Aarrestad led the expedition, Berdal was held hostage by the Germans to ensure that the Norwegians returned from the fortress after finishing their mission. When Aarrestad returned from Hegra Fortress a few hours later, he brought along nine wounded Norwegian soldiers and

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of food, ammunition and fuel. Several Norwegian soldiers were captured as a result of the patrol actions. To counter German guns placed in the positional guns' blind zones, the Norwegian artillerymen positioned their two 8.4 cm field guns to cover areas the fixed guns could not reach. During the siege, the Norwegian guns targeted machine gun nests, gun positions, command posts and ammunition depots in the surrounding area. On 23 April, one of the 7.5 cm positional guns was knocked out, one of the fortress's command towers was destroyed and the

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command arrived at the small mountain fortification of Ingstadkleiva Fort. At this point, Holtermann was given orders to proceed with the mobilization and otherwise do what he himself thought best. Holtermann thus began to gather and equip a fighting force of local volunteers. After arriving at the fort Holtermann first took residence in the buildings outside the mountain fortifications, not intending to defend the facility, only use it as a temporary base.

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fortress's guns only had a maximum range of some 9 km (5.6 mi), this was impossible. For accurate firing, the effective range was a mere 6.9 km (4.3 mi), as that was the range of the artillery's height angle meter. Efforts were made at the fortress to increase the elevation of the guns from 19° to 26° by removing part of the gun shields, and part of the gun mounting, but these failed as no

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patrol spotted massive German air activity at the air base. Plans were made to manhandle one of the fortress's 8.4 cm field guns to a nearby hill called Blankhammeren, and from there bombard German targets out of range from the fortress itself, including the strategically important airfield. The

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At 05:30 on 15 April, the Germans attacked the Norwegian positions defending the Hegra railway station, Hegra road bridge and Mælen bridge, supported by artillery fire. Having been partly caught by surprise, the Norwegian forces at the Hegra road bridge and the railway station made a fighting retreat

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and was on its way to Hegra. Not long after a train approached Hegra Station and ignored signals to stop. In response to what was interpreted as a German troop train trying to force its way through, the soldiers guarding the station opened fire on the approaching train. However, the train was in fact

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near Berkåk across the woods to Brattset. The road was intended to help the German logistic system that had been severely hampered by the numerous bridges that had been blown by the Norwegian Army during the preceding month. Due in part to the poor physical condition of the prisoners after the harsh

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For the remainder of the battle, the Germans did not try to storm the fortress again. Fighting consisted of aerial bombing of the fortress, duels between the fortress's guns and German field artillery and skirmishes between German and Norwegian ski units doing reconnaissance and bringing in supplies

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As the German attack developed, the artillery pieces at Hegra Fortress opened up to support the Norwegian troops under attack in the valley below, and later covered their retreat. The Norwegian artillery fire was directed at German artillery positions, machine gun nests and convoys of trucks pushing

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equipment could be acquired to carry out the modifications. Even though no modifications could be carried out, one of the 10.5 cm guns at Hegra opened fire in the direction of Værnes on 22 April. With the gun firing at maximum elevation, the rounds still fell hundreds of metres short of their

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In the evening of 18 April, two Norwegian doctors—Sigurd Aarrestad and Peter Berdal—approached the German commander of the Hegra-Son area and requested permission to pass through the German lines to evacuate wounded soldiers from the fortress. During the previous days' fighting many German wounded

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As the Norwegian infantry force pulled out of Hegra and up the road towards the fortress, the Germans pursued them until they reached a number of field fortifications blocking the road. At this position, the Norwegians held their ground and inflicted fatalities on the attacking force. Amongst the

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approached the fortress together with two Norwegian officers who had given up the same day. Despite the best efforts by both the German officer and the two surrendered Norwegians, Holtermann refused to capitulate. The next day, 13 April, Major Holtermann achieved contact with his superiors at the

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By 10 April, Holtermann already had fifty volunteers under his command and a steady stream of mostly local men kept being drawn to the fort. On 11 April, men of Holtermann's unit returned to Værnes to remove more of the materiel and provisions stored there. Due to poor security amongst the German

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the very next day, and by 10:30 approached the camp. As his forces were not combat ready, Holtermann had to evacuate and move to what was at that point known as Ingstadkleiva Fort to complete his mobilization. Thus, at 15:00 on 10 April 1940, most of the personnel and equipment under Holtermann's

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At the end of the first day of serious fighting, the Germans pushed on along the Meråkerbanen railway line and broke through the blocking position at Flornes. The troops holding Flornes withdrew first to Meråker, then further north to join other Norwegian forces. As night fell, German troops had

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Giebel—arrived to accept the surrender of the garrison. Later that day, 190 men and one woman marched out of the fortress and into captivity. At the surrender, the garrison at Hegra Fortress consisted of 14 officers, one technical officer, seven sergeants, one officer cadet, six corporals, 161

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labourers to work full-time at expanding and improving the air strip. Bombarding Værnes would both have disrupted this work and impaired the bombing raids being flown against Norwegian forces fighting further to the north. However, since Værnes is 11.5 km (7.1 mi) from Hegra, and the

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In the early hours of 5 May, the situation was such that there was very little food left and water for only a few days, all other Norwegian and Allied forces in all of southern Norway had been withdrawn or had surrendered and Hegra Fortress was the last remaining pocket of resistance south of

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dropped a 1,800 kg (4,000 lb) bomb, destroying the houses outside the walls, with shrapnel ending up in Hegra village several kilometres away. From 29 April, the artillery bombardment steadily increased in strength, with German guns reinforced by captured Norwegian

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started organising troops to resist the German invasion forces which had been landed at Trondheim. Holtermann first travelled to the army camp at Værnes to mobilize his Artillery Regiment no. 3. This mobilization began at 14:00 on 9 April 1940, but the Germans landed at

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position at Avelsgaard. At 09:00, a large force of German infantry attacked from the north-east, supported by machine gun positions situated a mere 150 m (160 yd) north of the fortress. The progress of the attack was only halted when it reached the

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under fire. At Mælen bridge, the guards withdrew to the south. Four Norwegian soldiers fell in and around Hegra, while one was killed at Mælen bridge. In addition to those killed, eight Norwegian soldiers were taken prisoner during the initial German attack.

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and were brought to Hegra to continue the mobilization after the Germans had reached their camp. The fortress at Hegra was originally only intended as a temporary refuge for the artillery regiment, but ended up as the centre of the volunteers' war in 1940.

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had personally ordered the release of Norwegian prisoners of war as an act of recognition of the defence they had put up under difficult conditions. The release of the prisoners from Hegra happened in groups and by mid-June the last PoWs had been let go.

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One way that Holtermann wanted to directly support the main war effort in Norway was to bombard Værnes Air Base, the northernmost airfield in German hands and vital for the support of German forces north of Trondheim. This was particularly so for the

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and advised all Norwegian forces in Trøndelag to lay down their arms as the situation had become hopeless after the British retreat from the southern parts of Norway. The decision to surrender Trøndelag had been influenced by

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for the last time during the Norwegian Campaign. Through a telephone conversation, the commander of the force at Hegra was told to act as he saw best and, if possible, to hinder the Germans in gaining control of the

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After the surrender, the Norwegians were marched down to Hegra railway station from where they were transported by train. In Trondheim, the officers and Anne Margrethe Bang were taken off the train and interned at

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The old mothballed fort at Ingstadkleiva that was to become known as Hegra Fortress was not intended by any of the parties as a battlefield. It only became of importance when the Norwegian artillery major

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The day after their first unsuccessful attack, the German forces made another attempt at storming the mountain fortress. In preparation, the fortifications were subjected to heavy machine gun and

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to the fortress over a two- to three-hour period. Early on in the fighting, the Norwegians demolished the Hegra road bridge, forcing the German infantry to cross the precarious ice of the frozen

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in order to support the Norwegian forces fighting there. As the immediate crisis had passed for the German force in Trondheim, they preferred to push south to link up with forces coming up from

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aircraft repeatedly attacked with bombs and machine gun fire. German infantry probed the approaches to the fortifications but were driven off by artillery and heavy machine gun fire. A German

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aircraft had repeatedly overflown Hegra Fortress. The Norwegian troops had fired on the aircraft with both rifles and machine guns, damaging one aircraft, which crashed while attempting an

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Six Norwegian soldiers were killed in action during the battle, with 14 wounded. All the Norwegian fatalities occurred during the first two days of the fighting. In the first years after

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was broken. The second 7.5 cm gun was destroyed on 24 April. The fortress was under constant artillery fire and held out chiefly in order to be in a position to support the

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siege they had just experienced, the road was never completed despite threats of punishment made by the German camp commander. At the end of May the German High Command in

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valley. At Lundamo, the prisoners were interned in a barn for the night. The next day, 6 May, the prisoners from Hegra were force-marched for 50 km (31 mi) to

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in Trondheim, and the next day one of the three 10.5 cm guns at the fortress was knocked out. During the siege, a total of over 2,300 shells struck Hegra Fortress.

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From around 25 April, the Germans gave up on storming Hegra Fortress. The pressing need to remove the Norwegian force ended in large part when the important town of

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plan, however, could not be carried out before the German attack of 15 April brought large German infantry forces into the area and rendered the plans infeasible.

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brought up to Avelsgaard bombarded the fortress, destroying most of the houses outside the walls. One Norwegian soldier was killed by a shell hitting the fortress

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for the artillery at the fortress. Artillery fire from the fortress knocked out three German artillery pieces and inflicted casualties on the attacking force.

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Bayerle, who had been released by his captors and sent along with the wounded Norwegians. As part of the agreement, the Norwegian wounded did not become

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Hugo Bayerle. Bayerle had been hit in both thighs, sustaining a broken femur, and was bleeding profusely. The Norwegian troops brought him on a ski

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Hans-Joachim Herrmann. After the fighting, as the Norwegians were going through the area to seize German arms and equipment, they found the German

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By the end of the battle the German forces employed against Hegra Fortress consisted chiefly of one infantry battalion at Hegra and one company of

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The first shots fired by the fortress's defenders occurred on 14 April, the same day as the friendly-fire train incident, when a Norwegian

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fired at and damaged a German aircraft, driving it away. More equipment and ammunition from Værnes arrived at the fortress the same day.

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During the siege, the struggle of Hegra Fortress captured the attention of the international media, with articles such as those in

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On 14 April, reports came in to the troops stationed at Hegra village stating that a train loaded with German soldiers had left

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News came in over the radio on 2 May of the Allied retreat from the Åndalsnes area, that the Germans had seized control of the

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and held off further German attacks before surrendering on 5 May as one of the last Norwegian units active in southern Norway.

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fire during the early daylight hours. A battalion of infantry was brought forward towards the fortress, but was hit by a

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The earliest attempt by the Hegra garrison to attack the airfield at Værnes had occurred on 14 April, when a Norwegian

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and Mælen bridge, and the first German attempt at making the fortress surrender was carried out. A German

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was established. At Berkåk, the prisoners were set at work at building an improvised road from the river

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occupied the areas around the villages of Hegra, Avelsgaard, Flornes, Ingstad and Sona. During the day,

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was raised over the fortress, and at 06:30 a force of 60 German soldiers and three officers—led by one

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Some of the Norwegian defenders gathered in one of the fortress's subterranean halls during the siege

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became to bombard Hegra Fortress with artillery and air power to try to pummel it into submission.

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capitulated 5 May after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.

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railway line to Sweden. In response to these orders, 20 soldiers were sent to the village of

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Many of these men had been mobilized to Artillery Regiment no. 3 at Øyanmoen army camp at

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Memorial at Hegra Fortress, commemorating the six Norwegian soldiers killed in the battle

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on 9 April. Later, from 20 April to 27 April, the Germans substituted the 138.

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which saw a small force of Norwegian volunteers fighting numerically superior

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On 25 April, the Germans employed a new weapon against the fortress when a

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A volunteer company of soldiers having served in Artillery Regiment no. 3

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The day after the German capture of the area surrounding the fortress,

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Giebel entering the fortress gates to accept the Norwegian surrender

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17 April began with a bombardment at 07:00 from the air and by the

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The surrendered garrison assembled in the ruined fortress camp.

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Part of the Norwegian campaign of World War II (April–May 1940)

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from a fortified position. After initial fighting around the

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on 16 April. The fortress was also mentioned in articles in

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of the Allied counter-attack had never swung north from

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fell to the Germans on 21 April and the Allied advance

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Archived from 1535: 1529: 1526: 1520: 1517: 1511: 1508: 1499: 1496: 1490: 1487: 1478: 1475: 1466: 1465: 1463: 1461: 1443: 1430: 1427: 1418: 1417: 1415: 1413: 1398:"Hegra Festning" 1394: 1385: 1382: 1373: 1370: 1355: 1352: 1346: 1345: 1343: 1341: 1332:. Archived from 1320:(in Norwegian). 1314:"Hegra Festning" 1309: 1071:collaborationist 985:prisoners of war 777:military doctors 707:Stjørdal Station 469:Høljarast Bridge 370: 368: 358: 351: 344: 335: 334: 280: 262:national service 259: 249: 244:Field artillery: 239: 220:(27 April–5 May) 219: 214: 213: 204: 201: 200: 191: 190: 174: 173: 161: 160: 148: 139: 138: 123: 119: 117: 116: 105: 103: 102: 49: 48: 41: 21: 20: 2383: 2382: 2378: 2377: 2376: 2374: 2373: 2372: 2353:May 1940 events 2298: 2297: 2288: 2286: 2282: 2279: 2274: 2271: 2269: 2267: 2266: 2256: 2254: 2239: 2236: 2217: 2216: 2179: 2156: 2131: 2126: 2121: 2117: 2113:Soldat 1985: 41 2112: 2105: 2101:Soldat 1985: 40 2100: 2093: 2088: 2084: 2080:Soldat 1985: 38 2079: 2072: 2068:Soldat 1985: 37 2067: 2063: 2059:Soldat 1985: 36 2058: 2054: 2035: 2034: 2030: 2011: 2010: 2006: 1996: 1994: 1985: 1984: 1980: 1970: 1968: 1959: 1958: 1954: 1944: 1942: 1933: 1932: 1928: 1923: 1919: 1914: 1910: 1900: 1898: 1889: 1888: 1881: 1876: 1869: 1850: 1849: 1845: 1841:Soldat 1985: 34 1840: 1836: 1832:Soldat 1985: 30 1831: 1827: 1822: 1818: 1814:Soldat 1985: 27 1813: 1809: 1804: 1800: 1795: 1791: 1787:Soldat 1985: 23 1786: 1779: 1774: 1770: 1765: 1761: 1756: 1749: 1745:Soldat 1985: 21 1744: 1737: 1733:Soldat 1985: 20 1732: 1721: 1716: 1712: 1707: 1703: 1699:Soldat 1985: 14 1698: 1694: 1689: 1685: 1680: 1676: 1672:Soldat 1985: 13 1671: 1664: 1659: 1655: 1650: 1646: 1642:Soldat 1985: 11 1641: 1634: 1630:Grimnes 1994: 6 1629: 1625: 1621:Grimnes 1994: 3 1620: 1616: 1611: 1607: 1602: 1598: 1594:Østby 1963: 165 1593: 1586: 1576: 1574: 1573:on 24 July 2011 1563: 1559: 1549: 1547: 1546:on 16 July 2011 1536: 1532: 1527: 1523: 1519:Soldat 1985: 45 1518: 1514: 1509: 1502: 1497: 1493: 1488: 1481: 1476: 1469: 1459: 1457: 1444: 1433: 1428: 1421: 1411: 1409: 1396: 1395: 1388: 1383: 1376: 1371: 1358: 1353: 1349: 1339: 1337: 1310: 1306: 1302: 1285: 1273: 1254:announced that 1210: 1178: 1124: 1119: 1093: 1062: 1029: 993: 976: 963: 943: 918: 898: 879: 854: 829: 815: 802: 797: 785: 764:railway station 757: 716: 689: 641:Gebirgsdivision 625: 549: 547:Norwegian force 536: 534:Opposing forces 504: 503: 502: 497: 371: 366: 364: 362: 327: 325: 316: 314: 312: 307: 305: 281:(with numerous 279: 273: 271: 266: 258: 256: 252: 248: 246: 242: 238: 236: 234: 218: 208: 207: 203: 195: 185: 168: 167: 163: 155: 154: 133: 114: 112: 100: 98: 80: 71: 42: 17: 12: 11: 5: 2381: 2371: 2370: 2365: 2360: 2355: 2350: 2345: 2340: 2335: 2330: 2325: 2320: 2315: 2313:1940 in Norway 2310: 2264: 2263: 2235: 2234:External links 2232: 2231: 2230: 2207: 2195: 2183: 2177: 2160: 2154: 2141: 2130: 2127: 2125: 2124: 2115: 2103: 2091: 2089:Brox 1988: 190 2082: 2070: 2061: 2052: 2028: 2004: 1993:(in Norwegian) 1978: 1967:(in Norwegian) 1952: 1941:(in Norwegian) 1926: 1917: 1908: 1897:(in Norwegian) 1879: 1867: 1864:on 4 May 2007. 1843: 1834: 1825: 1816: 1807: 1798: 1789: 1777: 1768: 1759: 1747: 1735: 1719: 1710: 1701: 1692: 1683: 1674: 1662: 1653: 1644: 1632: 1623: 1614: 1612:Soldat 1985: 8 1605: 1596: 1584: 1557: 1530: 1521: 1512: 1500: 1491: 1479: 1477:Brox 1988: 125 1467: 1456:(in Norwegian) 1431: 1429:Brox 1988: 191 1419: 1386: 1374: 1372:Brox 1988: 102 1356: 1347: 1303: 1301: 1298: 1297: 1296: 1291: 1284: 1281: 1272: 1269: 1209: 1206: 1189:. 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