National Archives in Oslo, Norway

[Andreas Brekken]

Hello, all!

After a lengthy telephone call to the person in charge of the Armed Forces archive, a department of the National Archive in Oslo, Norway, I hope the following information will be of interest to the group:

A handbook describing the holdings at the archive is available.

Most of the ex-German documents at Riksarkivet (Natinal Archive) are not ordered or catalogued.

The holdings consist of (at least):

1.000 shelf meters of documents from Org. Todt, which of course hold information on the construction of airfields etc. in Norway during WWII.

~50 shelf meters of unordered documents labeled "Heer".

~70 shelf meters of unordered documents labeled "Kriegsmarine".

~96 shelf meters of unordered documents labeled "Luftwaffe".

~67 shelf meters of unordered documents with no specific label

In addition, the National Archive has prepared a catalogue called "Norvegica in Freiburg", which is a catalogue of documents related to the German occupation of Norway now at BA/MA.

The sad story is that the uncatalogued materail is unaccessible. That is, a person visiting the archives would be allowed to visit the storage room, with a companion, but would not be allowed to work on the documents.

These documents are not to be catalogued for at least 5 years, and thus are unaccessible to the public.

I will try to get something going on this issue, and will post any updates here.

The homepage of the National Archive is located at:
http://www.riksarkivet.no/

With a list of contacts, addresses etc in English at:
http://www.riksarkivet.no/adresses.html

Regards to all,

Andreas

[This message has been edited by Andreas Brekken (edited 11 August 2024).]