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Episode 15: The Norway-Russia Border

On Geopolitics

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The Scharnhorst and the Norwegian Resistance in the High North

Admiral Sabruz Fraser says we're going to use convoy JW 55V as bait. The Scharnhorst was used to hide in Altefjord, which is a long deep field just by Alte and Finnmark. Norwegian resistance had a critical role in this because they've been given the job of notifying the British when it was leaving the AlteFjord. So there are four characters here, but there's radio telegraphist Torsten Robby and he was camouflaged as a county roads office employee under his pain master Karl Rasmussen. And then there was an agent at Kofjord called Harry Peterson and he had a contact called J

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