On November 2, 2012, Ambassador Wegger Chr. Strømmen was interviewed by Dr. Walter Reich regarding the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in Norway.
"This is the darkest chapter of our modern history. The murders were clearly carried out by the Nazis, but the driving of the trucks, the arrests and the rounding up of the Jews and the deportation [were] caried out by Norwegian citizens," the Ambassador said in the interview.
You can watch the entire interview here:
Amb. Strommen was an important contributor when the Norwegian government decided to pay reparations to the Jewish community for the injustices they underwent in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II.
Dr. Reich is the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and a former Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The interview was filmed in the Norwegian Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. on November 2, 2012.