They spent more than five years sailing around the globe on what were, to all intents and purposes, floating bombs, unable to return to their homeland due to it beingoccupied by German forces. In that time, approximately 33,000 Norwegian sailors transported 145 million tonnes of cargo for the Allies on board merchant ships belonging to their country, without which the UK would almost certainly have starved and the war effort collapsed. As Sir Philip Noel-Baker, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in the coalition government, once admitted, “Without the Norwegian merchant fleet, Britain and the Allies would have...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
