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From Villa Grande to the Holocaust Center: a house, a nation, and the problem of reckoning
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From Villa Grande to the Holocaust Center: a house, a nation, and the problem of reckoning

by Paal LeveraasJanuary 8, 2026January 8, 2026

The history of Villa Grande is not a footnote to Norwegian history. It is a condensed version of it. In his lecture, historian Carl Emil Vogt traces how one building moved through radically different political,…

When fascism met its limits: street politics and antifascism in pre-war Oslo
Politics

When fascism met its limits: street politics and antifascism in pre-war Oslo

by Paal LeveraasJanuary 8, 2026February 10, 2026

In the interwar years, Oslo was not merely a capital city. It was a political landscape, shaped and contested street by street. Fascism and antifascism in Norway did not unfold only in parliament or in…

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