But university and I did not see eye to eye, so off I went to work offshore. Like many all-male environments, working offshore was the intellectual equivalent of Animal House, only without the clever bits. Swearing, smoking, eating, more swearing, pornography, swearing, drinking endless plastic cups of tea... and did I mention the swearing? But it was more money than I'd seen in my life! There's something about being handed a wadge of cash as you clamber off the minibus from the heliport, having spent the last two weeks offshore and the last two hours in an orange, rubber romper suit / body bag, then blowing most of it in the pubs and clubs of Aberdeen. And being young enough to get away without a hangover.

Yeager, Selene (2018-10-02). "This Cycling Documentary Just Won an Emmy". Bicycling . Retrieved 2020-04-13. SS-soldater måtte stanse brutale norske fangevoktere"[SS soldiers had to stop brutal Norwegian prison guards]. NRK. 4 November 2013. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016 . Retrieved 1 January 2017. The daughter, Rebeca, is a tough mountain biker, who went to Viet Nam and Laos along the Trail to pay a tribute to her father. We saw through her own eyes, her heart and her soul to know why she needed to do this and she had proved that journey indeed was necessary for one of her later chapter of life.

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In the summer of 1942, about 2,500 Yugoslav prisoners of war arrived at these five camps, and by the next summer only about 750 were still alive. The differences between the camps are apparent from the fact that in the camp at Bakken further up in Saltdal no prisoners died over the span of three years. [4] :7 There were as many as 18 camps in Saltdal during the Second World War. [4] :18 [14] The prisoners worked on both road and railway construction, and, as mentioned, the conditions in the other camps in Saltdal were generally significantly better. The new road over Korgfjellet ( no) (a mountain) in the municipality of Korgen was intended to replace another ferry connection along Highway 50 between Elsfjord and Hemnesberget. On June 23, 1942, Yugoslav prisoners of war were brought to two camps: to Fagerlimoen (in Korgen) and to Osen (in Knutlia). The camps were active until the summer of 1943. A temporary bridge was set up over Beis Fjord in Ofoten in July 1943 and a ferry connection was set up between Fagernes and Ankenes. This was replaced by the Beisfjord Bridge in 1959. The Beisfjord camp was located in Beisfjord, 13 kilometers (8.1mi) south of Narvik, and was active from June 1942 until the end of the war.

Downey, Michael. "A champion mountain biker faces her toughest challenge: clearing bombs from Laos". NBC News . Retrieved 2020-04-15. While the paedophile storyline is stomach churning, the content rings true and is a reminder that evil people do live in the world. [4] The archives at the Falstad Center contain details of what later happened with those responsible from Botn camp and other camps in Norway. This information was collected and translated by the former Yugoslav prisoner Petar Krasulja from Belgrade, and the letter containing this information is dated June 13, 2000. The following were sentenced to death by firing squad: Franz Kiefer, the aforementioned August Riemer, Kurt Bretschneider, and Richard Hager, all of them SS members. [16] Trials in Norway [ edit ] Sentencing [ edit ]With The Blood Road, Stuart MacBride does what he does best. We have a gripping storyline with many elements, each time we start to put the pieces together, more is introduced. Even when you work out details, you remain curious about the little things, desperate to see how every small detail will play out in the end. Today there are several memorials in Saltdal connected with the Blood Road and other events during the Second World War. There is also a Blood Road Museum in Saltdal documenting the events. Now that made Marky’s gums itch. There were killers in here, people who’d strangled their wives, or battered a drug rival to death with a sledgehammer, or drowned their own brother, or slit a stranger’s throat because they supported the wrong football team. The Blood Road was a road section northeast of Rognan in the municipality of Saltdal. The road was a new section of Norwegian National Road 50 between Rognan and Langset on the east side of Saltdal Fjord, where there was a ferry connection before the war. [9] :46 The Blood Road itself now corresponds to a section of today's European route E6 between Saltnes and Saksenvik. [4] :24 The prisoners that built the road belonged to the Botn camp. Steel threw a whiteboard marker at him. ‘Well it’s no’ like she could’ve sent it afterwards, is it?’