Persecution, Collaboration, Resistance. Music in the 'Reichskommissariat Norwegen' (1940-1945)

Rupprecht Ina

Abstract

When Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, the long lasting bilateral relations changed fundamentally. The diversity of Norway during the occupation is presented in this book, confronting research on collaboration, persecution, and resistance for the first time as an international endeavour. The different essays illustrate not only exemples of exile and persecution and ask for the consequences of Nazi politics on prominent and forgotten fates, but depict how Norwegian artists positioned themselves towards collaboration or resistance during and after the war, as well as contrasting it with the impressions of German musicians, both military and civilian, playing in Norway during the occupation.