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...next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...last week getting her finishing touches at Bremen, Germany. Launched to the strains of Ja Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Country), Norway's biggest ship is a 20,000-tonner, 588 ft. long, is equipped with Diesel engines to carry 800 passengers from Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavenger and Bergen to New York in seven days-twelve hours faster than any other Norwegian vessel. Grateful for Germany's slick construction job, the line gave a 10,000-mark tip to the shipyard's relief fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Ships | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Kristiansand this week exiled Leon Trotsky not only accused Joseph Stalin once more of fraud, fakery and framing innocents but challenged the Soviet Government to invite to Russia an international working class investigating commission, predicted, "All the charges would then break down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tactical Diversion | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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