Narvik - In Photos
This book documents the Battles of Narvik, German Campaign in Norway.
Table of contents:
Pioniere; Nordfront; Landschaft im Polarkreis; Friede in Norwegen;
Unser General; Ein Leutnant und 20 Mann; Parole: Heimat!
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Hardcover
- 151 pages
- 127 rare b&w photos
- 1 page map of Narvik and surroundings
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In good exterior and very good interior condition.
Faint foxing to boards and spine, mild foxing to edges, endpapers and fly leaf, name on front free endpaper, else ok.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements: 7-3/4" x 10-1/2" ~1.5 lbs.
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by Gerd B.
Published by Oldenbrug
Captions of photos: The entire ore railway is electrified; The smoke of the burning merchant ships;
The ‘Hardie’ has reached its fate like so many other English destroyers; Beisfjord; The ore railway at the entrance to Rombaken Fjord;
Lonely grave on the ore railway (soldiers‘ grave, soldiers’ graves); German posts on the Swedish border; The first field post after long weeks of
weeks of being cut off; parachutists; paratroopers; air combat; air raid alert; mountain troops advance; transport of food and
ammunition transport; ‘mountain marines’ ascending to an M.G. nest close to the Swedish border; guard for Germany on the northernmost front; military hospital
northernmost front; military hospital; medics; wounded; the radio is an indispensable aid; guns; French tank at Skjomenfjord (destroyed)
Skjomenfjord (destroyed tank); The destroyed Narvik; Norwegians, Poles, French, these were our prisoners; A German sailor
reports to his General Dietl; The congratulatory card for our General, drawn by a fellow fighter; General Dietl lets his sailors
Dietl being rowed across the fjord in a rubber dinghy by his sailors; Facsimile from: Nordwacht - Frontzeitung im Narvikfjord (No. 6, Tuesday 23 April 1940) (OKW-Berlin).
April 1940) (OKW report); General Feuerstein; ferry service with cutters; guard at the Westfjord; field post (letterbox); stone monument of the
Ofoten railway; Corvette Captain Erdmenger distributes awards.
Background info:
Narvik (Northern Sami: Narviika) is a town and municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Narvik is located on the shores of the Narvik Fjord (Norwegian: Ofotfjord). The municipality is part of the Ofoten traditional region of North Norway, inside the arctic circle. Narvik borders the municipality of Ballangen to the southwest, Evenes to the northwest, Bardu and Gratangen in Troms county to the north, and Norrbotten County (Lapland) in Sweden to the south and east.
The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April until 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of World War II.
The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on 10 April and 13 April were fought between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German and Austrian mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German Fallschirmjäger from 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment, 7th Flieger Division. Narvik provided an ice-free harbour in the North Atlantic for iron ore transported by the railway from Kiruna in Sweden. Both sides in the war had an interest in securing this iron supply for themselves and denying it to the enemy, setting the stage for one of the first large-scale battles during World War II, since the invasion of Poland.
Prior to the German invasion, British forces had considered Narvik as a possible landing point for an expedition to help Finland in the Winter War or to take control over the Swedish mines. French politicians were also eager to start a second front as far away from France as possible.
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