| Sumario: | This article focuses on the Norwegian films under German occupation. In August 1941, while Norway was occupied by German troops, the first Norwegian national newsreel ever was released. Equipped by the Germans, the newsreel itself was produced by members of the Norwegian National Socialist Party Nasjonal Samling (NS). This article deals with the production of newsreels in Norway under German occupation and shows how rhetorical strategies changed throughout the war from optimistic presentations of everyday life under the `New Order' to frightening visions of a future under Bolshevik rule. For some Norwegians these newsreel reports may have had a certain appeal, but in general the newsreel proved incapable of winning the local population for the National Socialist cause. The Norwegian King and government left the capital, going into exile in Britain two months later after the Norwegian campaign ended. In the evening of the day of the invasion NS leader Vidkun Quisling announced the formation of a new `government of national unity. By the end of September 1940, Josef Terboven declared the NS to be the only legal political party.
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