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No, this is not any issue that Hitler had with the country not being under his rule. Rather, the problem is that Norway has the country code NO which some software will change from the string "NO" to a boolean "false". YES, true, NO, false. Oh, you wanted the string of the country code? Well too bad.
Problems of this sort are fairly rare, but on the other hand bad software such as Microsoft Excel cannot be fixed. Excel corrupts data, make sure you turn that feature off and watch it like a hawk as Microsoft likes to turn bad options back on again. Or, like, rename your genomes after decades of Microsoft corrupting them.
Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates