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XU (X for "unknown" and U for "undercover agent") was a clandestine intelligence organisation working on behalf of Allied powers in occupied Norway during World War II. [1]

33 relations: Allies of World War II, Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Arne Næss, Arvid Storsveen, Astrid Løken, Øistein Strømnæs, Brynjulv Sjetne, Det Norske Samlaget, Dutch India, Eilif Dahl, German occupation of Norway, Gestapo, Håkon Melberg, Knut Løfsnes, Lauritz Sand, Legal purge in Norway after World War II, Milorg, Nic Waal, Norway, Ole Henrik Moe, Oslo, Otto Øgrim, Paul Rosbaud, Secret Intelligence Service, Special Operations Executive, Sven Sømme, Sverre Østhagen, Sverre Bergh, Sweden during World War II, University of Oslo, Variable (mathematics), Vilhelm Aubert, World War II.

Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Anne-Sofie Østvedt

Anne-Sofie Østvedt, (later married Strømnæs), (2 January 1920 – 16 November 2009) was one of the leaders of the Norwegian intelligence organisation XU.

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Arne Næss

Arne Dekke Eide Næss (27 January 1912 – 12 January 2009) was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology" and was an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century.

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Arvid Storsveen

Arvid Kristian Storsveen (9 July 1915 – 27 April 1943) was a Norwegian Military Officer and organizer of the secret agency XU, the main intelligence gathering organisation within occupied Norway during World War II.

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Astrid Løken

Astrid Løken (14 April 1911 – 19 January 2008) was a Norwegian entomologist and member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

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Øistein Strømnæs

Øistein Stømnæs (28 June 1914 – 21 July 1980) was the head of XU, the main Norwegian intelligence organization from 1943 to 1945.

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Brynjulv Sjetne

Brynjulv Sjetne (25 May 1917 – 8 April 1976) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

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Det Norske Samlaget

Det Norske Samlaget is a Norwegian publishing house founded on 24 March 1868 with the aim to promote and publish books in Landsmål, now known as Nynorsk.

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Dutch India

Dutch India consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.

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Eilif Dahl

Eilif Dahl (7 December 191617 March 1993) was a Norwegian botanist and politician for the Labour Party.

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German occupation of Norway

The German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940 after German forces invaded the neutral Scandinavian country of Norway.

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Gestapo

The Gestapo, abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

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Håkon Melberg

Håkon Melberg (January 1, 1911 – November 4, 1990) was one of Norway's foremost linguists.

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Knut Løfsnes

Knut Ingolf Løfsnes (22 December 1918 – 5 January 1996) was a Norwegian resistance member, politician and lawyer.

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Lauritz Sand

Lauritz Sand (1 October 1879 – 17 December 1956) was a Norwegian topographer, military officer in the Dutch army, estate owner in the Dutch East Indies, business man and resistance pioneer of World War II.

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Legal purge in Norway after World War II

The legal purge in Norway after World War II took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country.

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Milorg

Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

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Nic Waal

Nic Waal, born Caroline Schweigaard Nicolaysen in Kristiania, Norway (1 January 1905 – 28 May 1960) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, noted for her work among children and adolescents in Norway where she is known as "the mother of Norwegian pediatric and adolescent psychiatry." She was also active in the Norwegian resistance during World War II, and was named as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Ole Henrik Moe

Ole Henrik Moe (11 January 1920 – 29 July 2013) was a Norwegian pianist, art historian and art critic.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Otto Øgrim

Johan Otto Øgrim (1 October 1913 – 6 December 2006) was a Norwegian physicist.

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Paul Rosbaud

Paul Rosbaud (18 November 1896 – 28 January 1963), was a metallurgist and scientific adviser for Springer Verlag in Germany before and during World War II.

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Secret Intelligence Service

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence service of the government of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence (HUMINT) in support of the UK's national security.

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Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British World War II organisation.

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Sven Sømme

Sven Sømme (1904–1961) was a Norwegian zoologist and ichthyologist.

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Sverre Østhagen

Sverre Østhagen (21 February 1918 – 15 January 1990) was a Norwegian journalist and politician for the Labour Party.

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Sverre Bergh

Sverre Bergh (1 November 1920 – 30 April 2006) was a Norwegian engineer who served as a spy in Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Sweden during World War II

Sweden maintained its policy of neutrality during World War II.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

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Variable (mathematics)

In elementary mathematics, a variable is a symbol, commonly an alphabetic character, that represents a number, called the value of the variable, which is either arbitrary, not fully specified, or unknown.

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Vilhelm Aubert

Johan Vilhelm Aubert (7 June 1922 – 19 July 1988) was an influential Norwegian sociologist.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Redirects here:

X U, X.U., X.u., XU (intelligence organisation).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XU

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