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Andreas Eliassen Grini

I am a PhD student at the Department of Modern History and Society at NTNU, Trondheim. My background lies in history and German studies, where I have worked with post-war recollections of the war in Norway, as well as portrayals of Jewish protagonists in post-war German literature. My PhD project is examining the war time history of the indigenous Sámi of Northern Scandinavia, where I am looking at both the National Socialist view of the Sámi within the framework of National Socialist race ideology, as well the different forms of contact between the Sámi and the Germans throughout the occupation of Norway and Northern Finland.

NTNU Trondheim

Department of Modern History and Society
Dragvoll Campus
N-7049 Trondheim
Norway

andreas.e.grini[at]ntnu.no

Personal site at NTNU Trondheim

From Ideology to Politics – German Occupation of Sámi Everyday Life 1940–45

During the occupation of Norway by the Nazis, Norway was granted a special position in the Nazi regime’s imagined post-war world order, based on a fabricated “Germanic shared destiny”. But how were the Sámi people viewed by Norwegian and German National Socialists within the framework of National Socialist racial ideology? What kind of contact was there between Sámi communities and the German occupying forces during the war, and how were the meetings influenced by this racial ideology?
MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT
  • “Es war ein Edelweiß. Die Nordfront in den Memoire der Gebirgsjäger der Wehrmacht,” Zeitgeschichte 52:4 (2025): 405-430. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737018500.405
  • “Kampen om Narvik – nasjonal heltemyte eller oppgjør med fortiden? [The Battle of Narvik – a National Myth or a Reckoning with the Past?],” Historikeren 1 (2023): 18-21.
  • “Basert på hvilke virkelige hendelser? Gråsoner og filmatiske fremstillinger av andre verdenskrig [Based on what real events? Grey areas and cinematic representations of World War II],” Historikeren 4 (2022): 17-21.
  • “Wehrmacht, Finns and Sámi in Lappland,” presentation at The Centre of Excellence in History of Experience, Tampere University, September 24, 2024.
  • “The Naked Life, Man and Nature in Northern Norway,” presentation at the Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, Lisbon, June 25, 2024.
  • “German Occupation of Sámi Everyday Life 1940–1945,” presentation at Falstad Centre, April 11, 2024.
  • “The Occupation of Sápmi during World War II,” presentation at the Summer School of Scandinavian and Central European History, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, June 29, 2023.
  • “Memories of Norway, Wehrmachts Mountain Divisions and the Natural North,” presentation at the Summer School of Scandinavian and Central European History, Univerzita Karlova, Prague, June 28, 2023.

University studies and degrees

  • Since 2023
  • Ph.D. student at the Department of Modern History and Society, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
  • 2023
  • Fritt Ord-prize of the Norwegian Historical Association (HIFO) for my M.A. in History.
  • 2023
  • M.A. in German studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Title: “Zwischen philosemitischem Klischee und kultureller Appropriation: Eine vergleichende Studie zur Darstellung jüdischer Figuren bei Alfred Andersch und W. G. Sebald [Between philo-Semitic cliché and cultural appropriation: A comparative study of the representation of Jewish figures in the works of Alfred Andersch and W. G. Sebald]”.
  • 2022
  • M.A. in History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Title: “Es war ein Edelweiß: Selvforståelse og -konstruksjon i krigsmemoarer fra Wehrmachts 2., 3. og 6. bergjegerdivisjon [Es war ein Edelweiß: Self-understanding and self-construction in war memoirs from the Wehrmacht’s 2nd, 3rd and 6th Mountain Divisions]”.
  • 2020
  • B.A. in History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
  • 2019
  • B.A. in German Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Professional background

  • Autumn 2024
  • Research stay at the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University, Finland.
  • 2022-2023
  • Research assistant in the project “Grey zones: research on and dissemination of grey zones and blind spots in Norwegian occupation history 1940-45” led by Hans Otto Frøland and Lars Busterud.
  • 2022
  • Research grant from The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters for participation in the project “Das Reichskriegsgericht – Justiz im Einsatz zur Kriegssicherung und zur Bekämpfung des europäischen Widerstandes 1939 – 1945 [The Reichskriegsgericht – The judiciary in use for wartime security and for combating the European resistance 1939 – 1945]”.
  • Spring 2022
  • Internship at Gedenkstätte Roter Ochse, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Teaching

  • Spring 2024
  • HIST1500 Modern History after ca. 1750, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
  • Autumn 2023
  • HIST1505 Introduction to Historical Theory and Methods, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Academic memberships

Editorial board member for Historikeren, journal of the Norwegian Historical Association
Network for Nordic Fascism Studies (NORFAS)