German word for intimate relations8/25/2023 They met in the fall of 1943 in Bergen, where Schreiber was part of the organization Todt (see Gustav Schreiber's archive folder, NStO). The difficult "love nest" circumstances for Norwegian and German men in long term relationships are demonstrated by the case of Gustav Schreiber (1904-1945) and Charles Petterson (1916-1980). These men had a well-developed knack for practicing their love life in obscurity, there was very little openness and tolerance towards homosexuality in 1940s Norway" (Walderhaug og Skeid 1990: 35). From Ringdal's descriptions the journalists in Fritt Fram concluded, perhaps hastily, that "on all locations where activities could take place unobserved, there could be love nests for gay men of both nationalities. Among them there were probably several homosexual men. Ringdal mentioned raids against public toilets in Oslo on at least two occasions in 1944, and that a group of men were once brought in to the German security police (Møllergata 19), from a "half-private establishment". Ringdal wrote about a man who repeatedly harassed German soldiers in the street Stortingsgaten in Oslo during the occupation, and he mentions another homosexual Norwegian man who frequented the German run night club "Löwenbräu" at Universitetsgata 26. But he had not mentioned any names either. They had little concrete evidence to support their provocative statements however, except what historian Nils Johan Ringdal (1952-2008) had presented from the mid-1980s onwards (see Ringdal 19). They also claimed there to be sexual relations between Norwegian men and German soldiers all over the country. The authors said that between 19 especially Oslo was an "Eldorado" were German and Norwegian men met in parks and streets. In 1990, an article in the magazine Fritt Fram stated rather bluntly that Germans were "the best lovers" (Walderhaug and Skeid 1990). Little is known about mutual romantic relationships between Norwegian and German men during the German occupation of Norway 1940-1945 (see Jordåen and Wolfert 2015).
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