Published 4/26/13 7:31
German soldier with new information about the invasion of Norway.
date unknown diaries reveals Nazi large-scale hunting of Crown Prince Olav in the dramatic days of April in 1940. It writes Dagbladet Friday.
German soldiers were ready to be shipped by air to Lillehammer. They would abduct Crown Prince Olav, who they believed was appointed Norwegian Chief of Defence.
diary of the German infantryman Horst Thormann, tells the young soldier how his department come by boat to Oslo on 14 April 1940 and will be accommodated in Oslo Handel.
Two days later 3 Battalion of Infantry Regiment 349 brought to Fornebu, where Junkers 52 transport aircraft are on standby:
“To fly us to the hinterland, where the mission is to take Crown Prince Olav prisoner. In the very last moment, when we were ranged at the airport to go on board, was called off the effort, “notes Horst Thormann.
– This that they would abduct Crown Prince Olav’s interesting, says historian Tor Bomann-Larsen told Dagbladet.
Government had appointed Otto Ruge new commanding general, but it was soon proposed that Crown Prince Olav was going to get thesis. Incubators would then be his chief of staff. This solution was actually in the air.
– Ruge headquarters was located on the 16th April Islands, just a mil north of the place where transport planes with the relevant German soldiers would land. As such, it is not entirely absent, this with the thought that the crown prince was situated there, Bomann-Larsen says to Dagbladet.
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