ONLY SIXTEEN

Only sixteen and too young to fight for the German military and political expansion on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Only sixteen years of age. His name was Ivar Olsen. He changed his name to Skarlo in 1956 because he was mixed up with a person with the same name.Ivar was an adventurer who was fascinated by the German technology and military strength like many of his friends. The military story of Ivar Skarlo has been written and published. The title of the book is:" 16 år og Hitlers soldat. Historien om Ivar Skarlo, en norsk soldat på Østfronten ". The story is written by Odd Helge Brugrand who has done a good work.Ivar Skarlo fought for Germany. He also fought for Norway because he believed in a victory for Hitler and his armies fighting the Russians.He was only sixteen and too young to face a life as crippled. Ivar fought for the Baltic countries too. In Latvia, Riga, his left arm was cut off at the hospital in the city.Crippled for life at the age of eighteen. The year is 1944.He had fought hard at the battle of Narva, Estonia.He was not the only Norwegian who was wounded during the battle.Too many of his Norwegian friends were killed and buried in Estonia.Ivar was a strong boy and he survived.
Ivar Skarlo will be rememebred as a hero in Estonia but not in Norway. He fought against a country which was allied to The Norwegian Government in london.The Norwegian population was not supporting the wars of Hitler. Norwegian Front fighters who joined
the SS-Division Wiking and Waffen-SS, were not welcomed by the majority of the Norwegian population due to the fact that Norway was occopied by the Germans. But Ivar was only sixteen and loved all kind of machines and military actions.He died in October, 2010. I recommend you all to take a look at the list of sources:Eesti Filmiarhiiv,Tallinn, Estonia and Narva Museum. Mart Laar: " Eesti Leegion,sonas ja pildis ", " Stalinism was just as bad as Nazism " and " Sinimaed ", Tallinn, Estonia.
The story of Ivar Skarlo is a dramatic story about a young boy who made a decision based on personal interests but who failed all the way.

MUSEO LEON TROTSKY -LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO

Mexico city. The year is still 2011.The date is November 18. The international conference : " Quinto seminario internacional de archivos sonoros y audioviusales " is finished set up by Fonoteca Nacional situated in Mexico City. My friends take me to the museum where Leon Trotsky worked and died.To my surprise Photos from Leon Trotskys stay in Norway from 1935 -1936 were attached on the walls in the museum. One photo on the wall had no content description. I knew I had seen the photo
earlier in Norway. The picture shows a group of people who are having nice time at the southern coast of Norway ( Sørlandet), Stangnesholmen, August 1936.I contacted the library of the Norwegian Labour movement situated in Oslo. Splendid research work was done and a splendid service too. The wanted photo was to be found in the
digitalized photo archive of the library. One copy was forwarded me together with all
the missing names of the people having a nice time in Norway.The photo had been used
in 1974 in connection with a book titled: " Verdensrevolusjonen på Hønefoss. En beretning om Len Trotskijs opphold i Norge ".The book was written by Yngvar Ustvedt
and published in 1974.The new information about the content of the photo has been forwarded to the house and museum of Trotsky in Mexico City.I bought a DVD at the museum about Trotsky. The wanted photo is used in the film but no information about the content of the photo. An important person who is sitting in a chair at the right side of the photo is missing in the film: Olav Scheflo who supported Leon Trotsky in Norway. Supporters of the Norwegian National Socialist Party and pro- nazi groups were active in making his time in Norway as nasty as possible.The result of the fight against him was that he had to leave Norway to be welcomed by the Mexican government and president who had a tolerant attitude to people with different political opinions.Thank you Mexico! Sorry Norway!.If you want to got to Mexico City
I recommend you to pay the museum a visit.

A HISTORICAL WAKE-UP CALL

" A HISTORICAL WAKE-UP CALL " in the field of television journalism and production should have been the title of the last book written by Bjørn Nilsen. The title of his book in Norwegian is : " Journalist og aktivist. Mediestreif ".The Norwegian television journalist and producer, the poet and the writer and the former politician
has done it again: Written a provocative book or a personal report about his life as
a television journalist while working for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The main issue dealt with in the book is the conflict between the daily
work making programmes for the company and being an active political citizen. Bjørn
Nilsen is not a young man. Age: 76. He has not asked for a national admiration or
a personal attention that might be the issue for men passing the age of 70.No.He is still young in mind and spirit. In year 1964 the former high school teacher and poet
began to work for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation(NRK).Fiction,poems, literature were among his main interests. No radical political man at all. To let him work for NRK should not make any problem for the management who was dominated by
the Royal Norwegian Labour Party for years. A change in his personal attitude to the society took place gradually.I met him for the first time in 1977 after having started to work as the Head of the Television Archive. The Union was a strong body at that time and we all joined to fight for better working conditions.Bjørn Nilsen
was also active. He tells about his different programmes made for television in his book. No personal reports about private life. Only facts about the problems in making good products for the television. At the end of his career he wanted to make programmes about the secret service of Norway including activities initiated by
The Labour Party. The former and late Director of NRK, Einar Førde, supported him in
his work to do so. But no programme was made. It was to dangerous to investigate in
the business where even the director himself could have been accused for taking part
in political support for the official enemy- U.S.S.R -The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics - a game not made for emotional journalists or politicians.
I assisted Bjørn Nilsen while he was working to make a controversial programme about the secret services of Norway and the connections between the Labour Party and the secret bodies.Bjørn Nilsen left Oslo in anger (not the first one who left NRK in anger) and settled on an island close to the city of Trondheim.The book should be read by all who want to challenge those who are in charge of ruling the country.
The question is: Do we talk about censorship or selection of information in making
a realistic documentary about issues not on the agenda of the government? Read the book and think for yourself.