Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940

Battle for Norway - Campaign 1940 is a 1940 in order given by the High Command of the Wehrmacht, produced by the UFA and created by Martin Rikli German propaganda film. The rolls of film were produced on nitrate-based. The special effects studio by Hans Neuberger and UFA studio trick ensured.

Content

The film shows in graphics and documentary footage of the attack of the Wehrmacht to Norway. In the film, the use of all arms is represented in the occupation of Norway. It ends heroically with the drawing of the capitulation of the Norwegians and the hoisting of the Reich War Flag by representatives of the associations used in the context of a picturesque fjord.

Film history

The film was long considered lost. He was only found in 2000 by the Norwegian film historian Jostein Saakvitne randomly offer a militaria online auction house. These were five rolls of film with a total weight of 20 kilograms. The film moved anonymous for less than 1000 euros the owner.

On 20 September 2006, the film was first premiered after the war by the Film Institute Oslo. In Germany the film did not come to the performance.

By Ragnar Løvberg by the Norwegian Film Institute, the film was digitized. The original rolls store now in Mo i Rana Mount Magazine of the Norwegian National Library.