Collaboration

The stamp with the letter “J” comes from the police station in Strinda, today a district of Trondheim. By 1 March 1942, all Norwegian Jews had to have their identity cards stamped with a red “J” by their local police station. This made it easy to identify Jews during inspections. As part of this stamping campaign, the Norwegian police compiled a central register of the country's Jewish inhabitants. Of the more than 700 Norwegian Jews deported to Auschwitz, only 26 survived.

The perfidious nature of the German reign of terror lay, among other things, in the fact that it involved the occupying societies in its crimes to varying degrees and in different ways – often through coercion, pressure or ideological and material incentives for active participation. In doing so, the occupiers were able to draw on existing anti-Semitism, among other things.