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BERLIN (Dagbladet): June 30, 2007. Thorvald Stoltenberg confronted the emigrant of Dagbladet, while we were walking in the only street of the Polish city of Ostrzeszow.
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Front up in 1945, the place was German and called Skildberg. Emil Stoltenberg (1900-1998) – with 1150 other Norwegian officers – spent two years of war. Now Thorvald had brought Jens and the two sons of Emil and Axel to the place that had special meaning for his own life.
Prime Minister Davens Jens Stoltenberg had an official visit to Warsaw on the previous day to President Lech Kaczynski and had with his war heroes Bjørn Egge (88) and Gunnar Sønsteby (89). Therefore, it was a big event of the family visit to Ostrzeszow that day – as well as the mayor and regional representatives moved to patch the Norwegian guests on their shoulders.
Prisoners of War
"On August 16, 1943, German soldiers came to the door of their house and went to fetch my father. I was 11 years old and the last thing he said was that now I had to look after the family while I was away, "recalled Thorvald
" Across the Cross -Red, we sometimes had a sign of life in the form of postcards. , where it was only his living life. But those little greetings were incredibly important to us sitting at home and did not know what it really meant. I was thinking of Father's postcards several years later, when they called and asked if I would become General Secretary of the Norwegian Red Cross.
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The Father's Era
Stoltenberg stomped a little further before winding up his wrist arm and showing off his wristwatch – a strange and not very elegant watch. "It was a beautiful Swiss watch that I received from my father the day he came back from Germany.I have used it every day since," says Thorvald while taking his left arm in front of the camera lens.
The Prime Minister and his entourage were arrested by a larger crowd standing in front of the meeting room and waiting. When there was a small void due to language difficulties, Thorvald was immediately on the spot and put his hand on his shoulders to a pinned mother-in-law while he was friendly in Norwegian. The woman was charmed in the sink without a word.
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Burner of the House
At the War Museum, founder Eyvind Grundt received what, over the last 25 years, had collected enough objects and paintings to make the sites available to the public. City Hall
Thorvald was the one who laughed the most, when Grundt spoke about the burning of the house of Norwegian prisoners of war. "I actually think it was Emil Stoltenberg who was the director of the production of alcohol," Grundt revealed.
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At a dinner in a Wroclaw restaurant, Thorvald told a story of reality. It was the big march – winter 44-45 – that the Norwegian officers had to perform. The Russians approached, and Schildberg had to be evacuated.
The flock was to move south and the prisoners had to walk on foot, which meant several days of difficult walking before reaching Luckenwalde south of Berlin
Emil's suitcase
They had not added much The Kilometers behind, before most people give up their belongings.
"Dad made a small use and told the farmer that he could no longer carry his suitcase.If he could leave it behind these people, and if they could to send him to Norway, when the war would end one day, it lasted ten years, but one day his suitcase was carried out by the post office.I would like to catch up with the senders and say "thank you", said Thorvald Stoltenberg.
The father's baggage story was also told on Polish television, but no one knew it yet.
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