Articles with the question of Norwegians being incorporated into the Red Army, the defense of Budapest and the battle in the Ardennes marked the newspaper’s front page that day.
At the time, Lofotposten was the newspaper of the whole of Northern Norway, and it comes across clearly when you flip through the newspaper. Here there are advertisers from the far north to the far south, both private individuals and companies.
As many had been evacuated from Finnmark and Nord-Troms, there were separate classified ads under the name “Evacued”. Here the evacuees searched for friends and relatives, and gave their new residential address.
The Lofoten fishery was important, then as now, and one of the articles had the heading “Preparations for this year’s Lofoten season are going as normal”, and followed up with the fact that supervisor Selseth had proposed that the supervision be set for 29 January.
The primary industries were praised
During the war years, fishing and agriculture were particularly important, and the fishermen were praised by both Lofotposten and Minister Alf L. Whist in an article called “Fiskerne våre foodläderwerder”.
Whist wrote the following;– They have my deepest admiration. The entire country’s population owes them the greatest debt of gratitude.
Lofotposten followed up with; – These are the minister’s words about the fishermen, this class of traders who have often been treated both arbitrarily and unfairly by the authorities. Fisheries and agriculture are the country’s two main industries, whether it is times of peace or years of conflict, it is these industries that provide us with most of what we need to live on.
