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Two days before Sønsteby's death, Norwegian Financial Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen unveiled a statue of Sønsteby at Rjukan torg and stated, "Gunnar Sønsteby is a great hero who risked his life so that we could win our freedom and our democracy". [6] Sønsteby died May 10, 2012 at the age of 94 after a long illness. [6]
In 2017, the Gunnar Sønsteby Prize was awarded to all Norwegian veterans of international military operations. This came to over 100,000 persons. [ 3 ] At a ceremony at Fanehallen in Oslo, Sunde, the head of the prize jury, said that the prize was “a tribute to the individual veteran and the effort, personal courage, and sacrifice they have ...
Oslogjengen had about ten members, coordinated by Gunnar Sønsteby. Two of the group members, Gregers Gram and Edvard Tallaksen, were shot by the Germans in November 1944, and Roy Nielsen was also killed by the Germans. Other group members were Birger Rasmussen, Andreas Aubert, William Houlder, Per Mørland and Henrik Hop, and occasionally Max ...
Roy Nielsen (27 March 1916 – 4 April 1945) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II, a member of Milorg and involved in propaganda and sabotage. Among his sabotage operations was the destruction of 25 Messerschmitt fighter aircraft and 150 engines stored in a bus garage in Oslo, on 14 August 1944, together with Max Manus, Gunnar Sønsteby and others.
A spokesperson for the coroner's office previously told PEOPLE that his cause of death was a "traumatic wound to the head" and a gun was found near his body. According to the BBC, the financier ...
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Aubert was the first prisoner tortured to death by the Germans at Grini. Under the cruel torture he revealed nothing and he thus saved the lives of many he had worked with. [citation needed] Aubert soon became one of the key members of the sabotage group Oslogjengen, which was under the command of Gunnar Sønsteby. Due to his leadership skills ...