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Asbjørn Sunde var Norges viktigste sabotasjeleder under andre verdenskrig. Han og flere av hans sabotører hadde krigserfaring fra den spanske borgerkrigen. Sommeren 1941 iverksatte han sine første aksjoner. På uvanlig dristig vis ødela Sundes menn industri og infrastruktur som var viktig for den tyske krigføringen. Snart ble han den tyskerne fryktet mest av alle.
Med Gestapo i hælene og mot ordrene fra regjeringen i London drev han sine folk til det ytterste, med et pågangsmot ingen vanlige motstandsorganisasjoner kunne praktisere. Sunde og hans menn var den norske motstandsgruppe som risikerte mest og mistet flest. Få av dem ble hedret etter krigen, tvert imot ble de forfulgt som kommunister.
Her fortelles den spektakulære historien om sosialistenes motstandskamp i Norge, en innsats som lenge har vært dysset ned. Denne nye utgaven er utstyrt med kart, bilder og oversikt over alle kjente aksjoner, samt et nyskrevet forord av historiker Lars Borgersrud.
Med Gestapo i hælene og mot ordrene fra regjeringen i London drev han sine folk til det ytterste, med et pågangsmot ingen vanlige motstandsorganisasjoner kunne praktisere. Sunde og hans menn var den norske motstandsgruppe som risikerte mest og mistet flest. Få av dem ble hedret etter krigen, tvert imot ble de forfulgt som kommunister.
Her fortelles den spektakulære historien om sosialistenes motstandskamp i Norge, en innsats som lenge har vært dysset ned. Denne nye utgaven er utstyrt med kart, bilder og oversikt over alle kjente aksjoner, samt et nyskrevet forord av historiker Lars Borgersrud.
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239 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1947
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Asbjørn Sunde
1 book1 followerAsbjørn Edvin Sunde was a Norwegian sailor, communist, and a saboteur against the Nazi occupation of Norway during the Second World War.
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September 26, 2026Özcan Buze tells Asbjørn Sunde's story:
https://ozcanbuze947071.substack.com/... :
Asbjørn Sunde led the Osvald Group, one of the most effective resistance and sabotage organizations in Norway during the Second World War. After the war he was, for a time, received at the royal court as a hero whose book became a bestseller. Yet in 1954 the same state declared him a “Soviet spy” and sentenced him to eight years in prison; the historian Lars Borgersrud has shown the trial to have been an unproven “farce.” Official rehabilitation came only in 2013, years after his death. Resistance fighters with ties to British intelligence — Max Manus, Sønsteby — were, by contrast, declared heroes without interruption from the war’s end onward, and remained so.
What changed in between? The regime was the same, the constitution was the same, the king was the same, and the man himself, and the work he had done — sabotage against the enemy in wartime — were the same. What changed was what capital, and its state, needed at that moment: Sunde, a resistance hero in 1947 before Cold War lines had hardened, became a threat in the eyes of the same state once NATO membership and alignment against the Soviet bloc were settled facts in the 1950s. Håkon Lie, general secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party, has been documented by the 1995–96 Lund Commission report as an “informant” for the CIA; he was among the architects of an illegal surveillance network spanning the party, the trade unions, and the secret police.
The liberal-democratic shell never cracked. It never had to. Inside that same shell, the decision as to who counts as enemy and who as hero was quietly rewritten to suit capital’s interest — with no tank in the street, no parliament shut down. What was done in Chile with a tank, in Indonesia with mass slaughter, in Argentina with death flights, was done in Norway with a court verdict and a medal withheld. The instrument changed; the outcome did not. Capital’s freedom was preserved, at times behind a bloody mask, at times behind a quiet administrative decision.
The claim that liberalism is immune to totalitarianism survives neither logical scrutiny nor the historical record.
https://ozcanbuze947071.substack.com/... :
Asbjørn Sunde led the Osvald Group, one of the most effective resistance and sabotage organizations in Norway during the Second World War. After the war he was, for a time, received at the royal court as a hero whose book became a bestseller. Yet in 1954 the same state declared him a “Soviet spy” and sentenced him to eight years in prison; the historian Lars Borgersrud has shown the trial to have been an unproven “farce.” Official rehabilitation came only in 2013, years after his death. Resistance fighters with ties to British intelligence — Max Manus, Sønsteby — were, by contrast, declared heroes without interruption from the war’s end onward, and remained so.
What changed in between? The regime was the same, the constitution was the same, the king was the same, and the man himself, and the work he had done — sabotage against the enemy in wartime — were the same. What changed was what capital, and its state, needed at that moment: Sunde, a resistance hero in 1947 before Cold War lines had hardened, became a threat in the eyes of the same state once NATO membership and alignment against the Soviet bloc were settled facts in the 1950s. Håkon Lie, general secretary of the Norwegian Labour Party, has been documented by the 1995–96 Lund Commission report as an “informant” for the CIA; he was among the architects of an illegal surveillance network spanning the party, the trade unions, and the secret police.
The liberal-democratic shell never cracked. It never had to. Inside that same shell, the decision as to who counts as enemy and who as hero was quietly rewritten to suit capital’s interest — with no tank in the street, no parliament shut down. What was done in Chile with a tank, in Indonesia with mass slaughter, in Argentina with death flights, was done in Norway with a court verdict and a medal withheld. The instrument changed; the outcome did not. Capital’s freedom was preserved, at times behind a bloody mask, at times behind a quiet administrative decision.
The claim that liberalism is immune to totalitarianism survives neither logical scrutiny nor the historical record.
November 16, 2018
Dette var kanskje ikke den lengste boka, men den e skrevet godt og uten så mye flåsete utbroderinger og floskler som gjerne bøker om krigen inneholder. God lesning!!
January 2, 2019
Papirbok. På norsk. Motstandshelten Asbjørn Sunde forteller sin egen historie.
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