 The German occupation and its consequences for the composition and changes of Norwegian business elitesEspeli Harald Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2010, vol. 51, issue 2, 107-130 Abstract: 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. Keywords: Business History; Business Elites; World War II; Norway (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:jbwige:v:51:y:2010:i:2:p:107-130:n:12 DOI: 10.1524/jbwg.2010.51.2.107 Access Statistics for this article Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook is currently edited by Dieter Ziegler More articles in Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook from De Gruyter |
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