Norway’s Most Feared Nazi Collaborator & Gestapo Informant: Henry Rinnan
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Henry Rinnan became one of the most feared collaborators in occupied Norway during World War II. Working closely with the Gestapo — the Nazi secret police — he led a network of informants known as Sonderabteilung Lola, or the Rinnan Gang, which infiltrated Norwegian resistance groups through deception and betrayal.
Operating mainly from Trondheim, Rinnan and his agents helped the Germans arrest, torture, and eliminate resistance members and civilians suspected of opposing the occupation. Their actions contributed to hundreds of arrests, deportations to German concentration camps, and the deaths of numerous Norwegians.
The story of Henry Rinnan, the Rinnan Gang, the Norwegian resistance, and the Gestapo reveals one of the darkest chapters of Nazi occupation in Norway — and how one of the country’s most notorious wartime collaborators ultimately paid for his crimes after the fall of Nazi Germany.
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