Norway apologises for deporting Jews during Holocaust

[dipsydoodle]

The Norwegian prime minister has apologised for the role his country played in deporting its own Jews as Europe marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"Norwegians carried out the arrests, Norwegians drove the trucks and it happened in Norway," Jens Stoltenberg said in a speech.

It is believed to be the first time a Norwegian leader has been so explicit about collusion under Nazi occupation.

More than a third of Norway's 2,100 Jews were deported to death camps.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16761558

[mactime]

1. Step in the right direction

but Norway still has a lot of work to do http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=217194

[riverwalker]

2. mactime

that's an inflammatory and ridiculous article against an ally, Norway. To insult a whole country, the country of the Nobel, just because some Universities didn't want Al Dershowitz to give a speech (probably about torture, his favorite subject)? My mother grew up in occupied Norway and her family suffered , the family home was burned to the ground and her family scattered. They lived under oppressive Nazi occupation for 5 freaking years.
Al Dershowitz can advocate his torture fantasies elsewhere, if the JPost gets it's undies in a bundle, so be it.

[Odin2005]

3. I have relatives over there who were part of the anti-Nazi resistance in Norway.

So I find it insulting, too.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. A visit to the Norwegian Resistance Museum should be an essential part

of any visit to Oslo.

You'll learn about the teachers who refused to teach Nazi propaganda in school and were sent to concentration camps in the Arctic.

You'll learn about the clergy who refused to preach Nazi propaganda and had their churches boarded up.

You'll learn about people who built their own radios after the Nazis confiscated all privately owned radios, monitored foreign broadcasts, and printed up underground newspapers.

You'll learn about the fishermen who smuggled Jews and dissidents to the Shetland Islands (which are part of Scotland but closer to Norway than to Edinburgh or Glasgow).

And you'll even learn about the original quisling, Vidkun Quisling, the puppet prime minister under the occupation, and other collaborators.

[EFerrari]

4. But it was featured at Pajamas Media.

lol

[slackmaster]

5. Are they really, really, REALLY sorry?