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German entrepreneuring in Norway

The Germans occupied a neglected (almost primitive) and backward Socialist country in 1940, and despite Allied bombing the Germans left a top modern Norway with European infrastructure in 1945.

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Norway was hardly ‘primitive’, being considered a relatively wealthy country as early as the late 1800s. Norway didn’t need and didn’t ask the Nazis to ‘help’ their poor country by ways of a hostile invasion. The infrastructures the Nazis left were mostly built by the 140 000 slave labourers they ‘owned’, most of which were Russian POWs. Much of the post-war development was due in no small part to the Marshal Plan.

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