ABSTRACT
In an oft-cited episode in the first weeks after liberation, Eva Kløvstad stood on the sidewalk of the main street of Norway’s capital Oslo, watching her male comrades in arms marching proudly past in the victory parade. Eva Kløvstad was the leader of a unit of Milorg, the military branch of the Norwegian resistance. However, the men she had led did not want her by their side when the ‘boys in the forest’ (as members of Milorg were popularly called) were being feted (Jonassen 2010, p. 73). Eva Kløvstad was not the only woman who was made invisible in this very tangible way. Their absence from the victory parade was followed by their absence from both the written history and the popular memory of the war years.
