Invasion
When news reached the government in the early hours of 9 April 1940 that the patrol boat Pol III had been attacked and that enemy ships were approaching Oslo, orders went out to evacuate the deposit to the vault in Lillehammer. Civilian transport was requisitioned and some heavies from nearby businesses were called in to help load the gold onto 26 lorries. The lorries left one after the other as they were fully loaded, some far over their maximum weight. Just as the last lorries left Oslo, the Wehrmacht marched into the city.
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