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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Tore Jørgensen, "Stutthof Diaries Collection: For Truth & Honor" (FriesenPress, 2022)
Description: In the early days of World War II, as Nazi Germany brutally invaded and occupied neighboring countries around Europe, hundreds of Norwegian police officers were commanded to carry out the orders of the Nazi occupiers of their homeland - Norway. They refused. Even under threat of death, they refused. Their refusal led to their imprisonment and their removal from Norway, ultimately to KZ-Stutthof in eastern Poland, where an elaborate network of concentration and death camps had been created mainly for Jews and Poles. Author Tore Jørgensen's father was one of those police officers.Stutthof Diaries Collection: F...