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said this about the extermination of Norwegian Jews: "Who else would be more responsible than the NSB? For me, the NSB's use of POWs and the deportation of Jews must be viewed as one: namely, that the NSB thereby became an agency that participated in Hitler's violence against these two groups, who
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By the 1880s, the pace of railway construction ground to a halt due to economic and political problems. In 1883, the Norwegian State Railways was established and railway construction started up again. The Norwegian State Railways also bought up many private railways to integrate them into the
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Of the 100,000 Soviet POWs that came to Norway, 13,000 were put to work on the Nordland Line. Over 1,000 died as a result of cold, starvation and exhaustion (out of a total of 13,700 dead "foreign POWs,
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for cooperation with the Germans," writes Westlie, even though "many of the darkest chapters are from the period before Vik" became chief, according to Halvor Hegtun.
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Guri Kulås (2015-02-27). "Fleire bøker viser korleis offentlege etatar og private selskap tente på den tyske okkupasjonen av Noreg: Slavane som bygde Noreg".
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were the Nazis' main enemies. The fact that the pertinent NSB leaders received awards after the war confirms the NSB's and others' desire to conceal this".
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There was no investigation of the agencies after the war. However, the former chief Vik was not to be prosecuted if he "did not work for NSB again".
1398: 1388: 1358: 152: 1378: 799: 739: 671: 1383: 1373: 493: 1161: 1363: 476: 316: 230:, was opened in 1854. It was built and run as a private company, although with some government ownership. This was followed by two wholly 212:. The name was taken by the train operator, although the infrastructure operator remained a government agency and is the legal successor. 1393: 841: 702:"Fleire bøker viser korleis offentlege etatar og private selskap tente på den tyske okkupasjonen av Noreg: Slavane som bygde Noreg". 249:. Several more were built over the next two decades. In 1871 the national railway was connected to the Swedish rail infrastructure. 1266: 1199: 1368: 1038: 201: 94: 605: 834: 410: 289:("The Prisoners Who Disappeared"), shows that NSB was fully informed about the prisoners' situation", according to a 2015 1324: 1271: 857: 221: 1118: 414: 1215: 1148: 1031: 438: 1156: 1095: 1062: 209: 102: 1261: 1194: 816: 756: 688: 556: 261:
was first formally acquired in 1926, despite having formed a central part of the network for half a century.
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NSB sa ja til slavedrift - Disse russerfangene ble tvunget til å bygge Nordlandsbanen. Så skulle de glemmes
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NSB sa ja til slavedrift - Disse russerfangene ble tvunget til å bygge Nordlandsbanen. Så skulle de glemmes
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NSB sa ja til slavedrift - Disse russerfangene ble tvunget til å bygge Nordlandsbanen. Så skulle de glemmes
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The title was changed from director-general to chief executive officer in the late 1980s.
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Norwegian State railways class 21 2-6-0 No. 377 'King Haakon VII' is preserved at
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was electrified. In 2002 the freight operations were split to the subsidiary
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For the company operating as Norwegian State Railways from 1996 to 2019, see
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In 1952 a plan of electrifying operations was adopted. In 1970 the
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transported Jews to the outward shipping from the Oslo harbor
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in 1862, with the latter branching from the Trunk Line at
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In January 1942, NSB gave the "green light for putting
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Government agency
Rail transport
Demerger
Norwegian National Rail Administration
Norwegian State Railways
Norwegian Railway Inspectorate
Oslo
Norway
Parent
Ministry of Transport and Communications
Norwegian
railway company
railway network in Norway
government agency
railways
Norway
demerged
Norwegian National Rail Administration
Norwegian State Railways
Norwegian Railway Inspectorate
History of rail transport in Norway
Trunk Line
state-owned railways
Hamar–Grundset Line
standard-gauge
Kongsvinger Line
Lillestrøm
Bratsberg Line

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