The Trial of Henry Rinnan - Norwegian Gestapo Agent

The Trial of Henry Rinnan - Norwegian Gestapo Agent With Janet Oakley Part of our War Crimes Trials - Investigations, Trials and Legacies playlist    • War Crimes Trials - Investigations, Trials...   Part of our 1945 and the Postwar era series    • 1945 and the immediate Postwar period   Also part of our Norway series    • Norway in WWII   Henry Oliver Rinnan was a notorious Norwegian Gestapo agent in the area around Trondheim in Norway. He led a group called Sonderabteilung Lola. This group, known as Rinnanbanden among Norwegians, had fifty known members. Rinnan had been appointed SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve, and received the Iron Cross 2nd grade in 1944. After Germany's surrender in May 1945, Rinnan and some his group were captured trying to escape to Sweden. In the course of two trials after the war, forty-one members of the Rinnan group were convicted and sentenced. Twelve received sentences of execution by firing squad from the Frostating Court of Appeal on 20 September 1946. Ten of those death sentences were carried out. Eleven other defendants were sentenced to lifelong forced labour (later pardoned), while the rest were given long prison sentences. Janet Oakley is a historian and writer of historical fiction and non-fiction. Her undergraduate work started as an intern in the Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institute followed by a year as a volunteer and stipend student after graduation. Over the years she has designed and taught historical curriculum for museums, schools, and national parks. For eleven years she was the curator of education at a county museum. She lives in the Pacific NW. Her interest in Norway in WWII came from her research and interviews for her two novels set in that time. https://www.jloakleyauthor.com/ http://www.amazon.com/J.L.-Oakley/e/B... Janet's previous appearance on WW2TV Tragedy in Telavåg - A Nazi atrocity in Norway in WW2 https://youtube.com/live/EAf17KH3XXI Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   WW2TV Merchandise https://ww2tv.creator-spring.com/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Andrew Harris, Tonet Rivera, John Lonsberg, Susan Yu, David Keahey, Jim Walsh and Tom Mullen Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame   / ww2tv   🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 https://streamyard.com/pal/d/47793857...