Jill Stephenson - Hitler’s Scandinavian Legacy

Hitlers Scandinavian Legacy

Hitlers Scandinavian Legacy

The Consequences of the German Invasion for the Scandinavian Countries, Then and Now

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John Gilmour and Jill Stephenson

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Juhana Aunesluoma is an Adjunct Professor of Political History and has worked as the director of The Network for European Studies at the University of Helsinki since January 2010. He defended his doctorate at Oxford University in 1998 and started working as a senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki in 2001. His areas of specialization include Cold War history, international trade and integration policy and Finnish, Nordic and European twentieth century history. His major publications are Britain, Sweden and the Cold War, 194554 (2003), Understanding Neutrality, The Cold War and the Politics of History (2008) and Finlandisation in Reverse. The CSCE and the Rise and Fall of Economic Dtente, 196875 (2008).

Claus Bundgrd Christensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at the University of Roskilde. His research interests include the Second World War, the First World War, military history, the Holocaust, the Waffen-SS , anti-parliamentarianism, Nazism, fascism, history of the Danish police, anti-Communism, crime history, the occupation, the first post-war years and the Cold War. His published work includes Dansk arbejde-tyske befstningsanlg (1997), Under hagekors og Dannebrog (1998), Dagbog fra stfronten (2005) and he jointly authored Danmark besat Krig og hverdag 194045 . (2009) His book, Danskere p vestfronten 191418 , won the Danish History book of the Year Award 2009.

John Gilmour is Honorary Fellow in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Scandinavia and the Second World War, the prose literature of Harry Martinson and Bjrn Larsson, and cultural influences and self-image in present-day Scandinavia. His book on Swedens experience during the Second World War, Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin , was published by the Edinburgh University Press in January 2010.

Ole Kristian Grimnes is currently Professor Emeritus in Modern History at the University of Oslo. In particular, he has worked on the period 194045 in Norwegian history. His many publications include The Rise of a Refugee Community. Norwegians in Sweden 194045 ( Et flyktningesamfunn vokser fram. Nordmenn i Sverige 194045 ) (1969), The Norwegian Resistance Leadership ( Hjemmefrontens Ledelse ) (1979), Norway during the Occupation ( Norge under okkupasjonen ) (1983), The German Invasion of Norway ( Overfall ). Volume 1 of Magne Skodvin (ed.): Norway at War . (1984) and The Road to War. The Nygaardsvold Governments War Decisions in 1940 ( Veien inn i krigen. Regjeringen Nygaardsvolds krigsvedtak i 1940 ) (1987). He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Tom Kristiansen is Professor of History at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He has written extensively on Scandinavian diplomatic, naval and military history in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries with a particular focus on the relations between Scandinavia and the great powers, and Anglo-Norwegian relations. His latest books include Tysk trussel mot Norge? Forsvarsledelse, trusselvurderinger og militre tiltak fr 1940 (2008) and The history of the Norwegian navy 190560, Selvstendig og alliert i krig og fred (2010). Kristiansen is currently working on the history of Norwegian Ministry of Defence 18141940.

Allan Little is both a Graduate and an Honorary Graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He is a Special Correspondent at the BBC and the winner of many awards for his reports from abroad, especially from war zones. His postings have included Moscow, Paris, Baghdad, Kuwait and Johannesburg. He spent four years in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, reporting on the Bosnian War, and is co-author of The Death of Yugoslavia (1996). More recently, he has reported from Afghanistan. In 2012, he received the British Journalism Reviews Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.

Niels Wium Olesen is Associate Professor in Danish and European twentieth Century History in the Department of Culture and Society, University of Aarhus. He has written widely about the interwar years, the era of the Second World War and the early Cold War. He has participated in several European research projects, the latest being a project about social movements in Europe and the transition from war to peace in 194447. He jointly authored Danmark besat Krig og hverdag 194045 (2009) and is currently working on a book on Danish politics in the interwar years. Dr Olesen has made many media contributions in Denmark on both historical issues and current affairs.