Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940

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Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940
Directed by	Martin Rikli
Release date(s)	1940
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Nazi Germany
Language	German

Kampf um Norwegen - Feldzug 1940 (English: Battle for Norway - 1940 campaign) is a 80 minute-long Nazi propaganda film directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre by orders from the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. Released in 1940, the movie follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring 1940.

The film was never even shown in Germany, and nobody knows the reason why. The movie was for a long time considered lost in its entirety. The Bundesarchiv in Berlin held only a few clips from the film. But then a complete nitrate copy of the film surfaced on an Internet auction in 2005. The Norwegian College Professor and Media Expert Jostein Saakvitne discovered this, and purchased the copy.

He contacted the Norwegian Film Institute, and a consignment was entered into. The Film Institute had the film transferred to a video master, and sent the nitrate copy to the National Library nitrate film depository in Mo i Rana. As it became clear that the rights belonged to the Bundesarchiv, the film copy was bought back to Germany.

Due to the film's special background and topic, the movie can today be bought on DVD from Germany and Norway.