The German occupation and its consequences for the composition and changes of Norwegian business elites

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ID16477520
AuthorsHarald Espeli (0000-0001-8253-4097, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume51
Issue2
Pages107-130
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0075-2800 • E-ISSN: 2196-6842
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1524/jbwg.2010.51.2.107
OpenAlexW1520612406
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The German occupation had dramatic consequences on the pre-war political and military elites in Norway, due to the ways in which they behaved during German rule. These elites were almost completely replaced by a younger generation of men. The occupation had no comparable effect on prewar business elites. In light of the pre-war economic elites’ extensive economic collaboration with the Germans starting immediately after the occupation, a different outcome might have been expected. One of the reasons for the lack of purges of the pre-war business elites was that very few of them were members of the Norwegian Nazi Party. Another important explanation is that a number of the leading men advocating and practising economic collaboration in the first phases of the occupation later became leading figures in the resistance movement. A third factor was that a purge of business leaders for economic collaboration could have undermined the economic recovery and growth of the nation state after the liberation

Composition (language · Economic history · Economics · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Norwegian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · World War II · European history and politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

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