Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror
Getting hammered: Nazi soldiers having the time of their lives in occupied Norway... as they launched their reign of terror Chilling photos of German soldiers having a roaring time in Nazi-occupied Norway months before they murdered hundreds of local Jews have been discovered. The pictures show members of Hitler’s Wehrmacht enjoying picnics in a sunny meadow and sipping tea and eating biscuits at a tranquil garden party. Other black and white images depict four uniformed troops indulging in drinking games in a bar, with one wielding a wooden mallet as if to strike his comrade with it as a joke. AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WATCH NOW World War II Total War More pictures from the album, that has come to light from a British collector, show soldiers posing with bemused Laplanders in northern Norway. While the pictures appear to depict the Germans as an agreeable occupying force and a ‘nice bunch of chaps’, they were taken four months before the Holocaust in Norway. From November 1942 the Na...