The Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany (Norwegian: Tysklandsbrigaden) was a Norwegian expeditionary force stationed first in the Hanover area and from 1948 to 1953 in the Schleswig Holstein area of Germany as part of the British occupying force after World War II.
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