Modern Oslo · event 3 of 12

1945

Liberation, and a trial at Akershus. Germany surrenders in Norway on 8 May and Haakon VII returns on 7 June, five years to the day since he left. Vidkun Quisling is executed by firing squad in the fortress courtyard in October.

The Modern Oslo era

  1. 1925
  2. 1940
  3. 1945
  4. 1950
  5. 1952
  6. 1969
  7. 1972
  8. 1990
  9. 2008
  10. 2011
  11. 2021
  12. 2022

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