H7 Escapes the Nazis (Part II of II)

For five years, King Håkon, or H7 as loyal Norwegians would come to call him in their hastily scrawled grafitti, led the resistance from Britain. In radio messages and through the press, he urged Norwegians to remain above all, Norwegian in mind and spirit, and too keep fighting for their country. He returned home on June 7, the exact anniversary of his departure, a hero of the Norwegian resistance and of the restoration.

Resources

Greve, Tim. (1983). King Håkon VII of Norway. Translated by T.K. Derby. NY: Hippocrene Books.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. (1997). The nation as a human being - a metaphor in a mid-life crisis? Notes on the imminent collapse of Norwegian national identity. In Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig, eds., Siting Culture-, Routledge 1997 http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Collapse.html

Stokker, K. (1995). Folklore Fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway (1940-1945). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

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