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Post by Robb » 15 Sep 2008, 11:58

Hi all,

Next question: Name of the resistance movement in Norway during the war?
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Post by Zebedee » 26 Sep 2008, 22:45

Wasn't Milorg the military resistance and civillian resistance was directed and planned by KK (co-ordinating committee) and Kretsen (=circle?)? (edit: IIRC there was also a military intelligence branch called XU, although old age is creeping up with me so I could be getting confused :D)


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Post by Robb » 28 Sep 2008, 06:14

Hi Zebedee,

Correct answer so over to you! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorg
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Post by Zebedee » 28 Sep 2008, 06:41

Thanks Robb. There's a very good museum (at least there was!) to the Norwegian resistance movements in Oslo which is worth a visit if anybody gets chance to have a few days in Norway.

My question:

How were banknotes and resistance linked in the Channel Islands during ww2?

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Post by idgreenwood » 18 Feb 2009, 01:32

Well, Zebedee, while I join everyone else in looking for the link between banknotes and CI resistance (over four months now and looking) let me point you to the Jersey postage stamps of April 1941, one of which contained, microscopically, the letters AAAA, which are taken to mean (at least by the more classically educated natives) AD AVERNUM, ADOLPH ATROX ("to hell, dreadful Adolf").

Further, in the rather different June 1943 issue, the 3d value contains among its decorative curlicues a supposed GR, a reference to its designer's loyalty to the British king. I say supposed because, since the curlicues are mirror images of one another, you could say it was stretching a point.

Now, surely your banknote question refers to something similar?

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Post by Zebedee » 07 Mar 2009, 03:23

Hi idgreenwood, it is indeed. 1941 was the year of the 'V' campaign, initiated originally by Victor de Laveleye on 14 January 1941 in a broadcast to Belgium by the BBC. The Jersey artist Edmund Blampied was commissioned to design a set of stamps and banknotes for Jersey, and in both there are hidden signs of resistance using the idea of the V for victory and other more traditional British symbols to display loyalty to crown and country. The 6d note is one of the more obvious as it is designed so that when folded in half there is a distinctive V upon it. This site has pictures of the note, although there was a site with the full set which identified the less obvious ones, but sadly www.germannotes.com no longer seems to exist even in cached form :( : http://www.jeron.je/thatwasjersey/people.html

Over to you, and apologies for taking a couple of weeks to pass the baton.

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Post by Robb » 14 Jun 2009, 13:33

Hi idgreenwood,

Would you like to post a question for us?
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Post by Robb » 23 Jul 2009, 11:12

I'll start us off again...."He was decorated for his work as a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. Known also as Kjakan (The Chin) and No. 24, he participated in the resistance effort from 1940."c What is his name?
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Post by Marcus » 30 Oct 2009, 20:19

Gunnar Sønsteby?

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Post by Robb » 31 Oct 2009, 18:25

Hi Marcus,

Correct answer. A very interesting person and apparently still alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_S%C3%B8nsteby
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Post by Marcus » 31 Oct 2009, 18:51

A Swedish woman was killed by members of the Danish resistance on a boat between Denmark and Sweden, who was she?

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Post by Marcus » 03 Nov 2009, 09:45

Here is a photo of her.

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Post by Marcus » 03 Nov 2009, 19:43

Hint: A Swedish-Danish TV-series was produced in 1985 about her, attempts were made to stop it being shown on Danish TV. In the series the role of Admiral Canaris was played by Anton Diffring.

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Post by Marcus » 28 Nov 2009, 22:35

Her real name was Ebba Charlotte Horney but she is remembered under a different name.

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Post by Robb » 30 Nov 2009, 11:39

Hi Marcus,

Jane Horney? I eventually managed to find Anton Diffring - never knew he was in Where Eagles Dare, one of my favourite war movies. Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood are much better know here.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144717/
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