Gladiators of World War II — Season 1, Episode 8: Part 8: Norwegian Resistance Fighters
Documentary, War & Politics • 45 min • 1 season, 13 episodes
Episode synopsis
Norway was strategically important to Hitler and endured five years of Nazi occupation, but it developed one of the most effective resistance movements in the whole of Occupied Europe. Its activities helped the British to contain and then destroy Germany's mightiest warships, as well as to ensure that the Allies won the race to develop the atomic bomb.
About Gladiators of World War II
In this BBC documentary series newly declassified documents are used to examine the strategic roles played in the war by thirteen of the world's regular and resistance land, sea and air forces.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Part 1: Waffen-SS
- E2Part 2: Special Operations Executive
- E3Part 3: SAS
- E4Part 4: Desert Rats
- E5Part 5: Free Polish Forces
- E6Part 6: RAF Fighter Command
- E7Part 7: The Paras and Commandos
- E9Part 9: Kamikaze
- E10Part 10: The Royal Navy
- E11Part 11: The Chindits
- E12Part 12: Free French Forces
- E13Part 13: The Anzacs