Berit Nøkleby (25 September 1939 – 26 July 2018) was a Norwegian historian.
She was born in
Drammen
Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such as Konner ...
, and is a
cand.philol. by education. She has contributed to several books on the
German occupation of Norway
The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...
.
She wrote book II and IV of the series ''Norge i krig I–VIII. Fremmedåk og frihetskamp 1940–1945'' (II: ''Nyordning'', 1985, and IV: ''Holdningskamp'', 1986). She wrote the book ''
Josef Terboven
Josef Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Essen and the ''Reichskommissar'' for Norway during the German occupation.
Early life
Terboven was born in Esse ...
. Hitlers mann i Norge'' (1992), and she was co-editor of the encyclopaedia ''
Norsk Krigsleksikon 1940–1945'' (1995).
She died at the age of 78.
[Death announcement, ''Aftenposten'' 2 August 2018 p. 33]
Selected works
*''Nyordning'' (1985)
*''Holdningskamp'' (1986)
*''Pass godt på Tirpitz! : norske radioagenter i Secret Intelligence Service 1940-1945'' (1988)
*''Da krigen kom'' (1989)
*''Josef Terboven: Hitlers mann i Norge'' (1992)
*''Skutt blir den-- : tysk bruk av dødsstraff i Norge 1940-1945'' (1996)
*''Barn under krigen'' (2000)
*''Gestapo: tysk politi i Norge 1940–45'' (2003)
*''Krigsforbrytelser: brudd på krigens lov i Norge 1940–45'' (2004)
*''Politigeneral og hirdsjef Karl A. Marthinsen'' (2010)
References
1939 births
2018 deaths
Norwegian women historians
Historians of World War II
Norwegian biographers
People from Drammen
20th-century Norwegian historians
21st-century Norwegian historians
{{Norway-historian-stub