The Red Cross War Memorial Museum is visited by people from many different nations who, because of their family ties, feel a direct link to the Battles of Narvik. There is a metro station called Narvik in Paris, and in Poland there are universities and high schools that bear the name Narvik. Many Spaniards went straight from the Spanish Civil War into the French Foreign Legion, which also fought in Narvik. Whilst the Soviet Union had not yet entered the war when the Battles of Narvik took place, during the war years about 75% of the 105,000 Russian soldiers in Norway were POWs in Northern Norway and suffered appalling conditions. Both Australian and Indian troops served in the British forces. Up to 350,000 German and Austrian soldiers were in Norway at any one time during the Nazi occupation. The few survivors and their many descendants are greeted by a museum which presents the history of the period in a highly fact-oriented, objective and nuanced way; the horrors of war sink in only gradually. The museum is not large, but it takes time to digest and reflect on the immense and moving story it has to tell.