Nordahl Grieg

Nordahl Grieg was born on 1 November 1902 in Bergen. A sailor in his youth, he studied at Oxford and stayed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s, where he became a communist; in 1937 he defended the Moscow trials. After the invasion, he joined the government in exile in Britain and spoke on the radio for free Norway. He was killed on 2 December 1943 over Berlin, as an observer aboard an Allied bomber that was shot down.

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• PoetryAll That Is Mine DemandFrihetenNordahl Grieg · 1943LiteraturePublic domain