On 19 December was the premier of a new Norwegian film, Max Manus which was the most watched Norwegian film in 2008 and the most expensive one made in Norway. The premier was attended even by King Harald V, too and this film sparked a huge public debate about the role of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
But who was Max Manus ?
Max Manus was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. Max Manus was born to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother in the Norwegian city of Bergen. As a result of his father preferred a life of hunting and fishing rather than a normal family, they were divorced and he took with him Max and daughter Pia to Oslo. Few years later they moved to Cuba and his father changed his surname from Magnussen to Manus. After a time in Cuba as a seaman, he was on a longer trip in the Andes before he went back to Norway.
He came back at about the same time as the Winter War broke out, and he joined as a volunteer. After fighting as a volunteer for Finland in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War he returned to Norway on the day of the German invasion of Norway. In Norway he participated in the war actions in Pietermaritzburg, and he started working with illegal newspapers, (Vi vil oss et land), the resistance movement. He was surprised by the German Gestapo in his apartment in Vidars street in Oslo and he tried to escape, jumping out the window. However Gestapo arrested him and he was brought to Ullevål hospital.
With good friends' help, not least from the hospital's side, he managed to escape to Sweden. From here he went to England via Russia, Africa and Canada, his journey took seven months.He escaped to England for training and went back as a saboteur for the Norwegian Independent Company 1, better known as Linge Kompaniet. In March 1943, he was released in parachute over Norway together with Gregers Gram for conducting "operations Mardonius." He was a member of the later known as the Oslo gang, that the British were regarded as Europe's best sabotage group during the Second World War. Together with, among others, Gunnar Sønsteby and Gregers Gram he also took part in operations "Derby" and "Bundle" whose task was shipping sabotage and the production of illegal propaganda. Manus became a specialist in sabotage, by using limp mines. He sank ships that were important to the German Kriegsmarine like Monte Rosa and Donau.
Max Manus ended the war as a first Lieutenant and became bodyguard for the King and the Crown prince. In autumn 1945, he and Sophus Clausen went to the United States to acquire agency to office machines. Together they started the company Clausen and Manus. In the years after the war Manus employees here also quislings, the most famous was Walter Fyrst. In 1952 the company was split into two different companies; Sophus Clausen AS and Max Manus AS which still exists today.
During the war Max met Manus Ida Nikoline "Click" Lie Lind Brække. Click was the daughter of the Bergen County Governor and the sister of the Conservative Party later chairman, Bank Sjur Lind Brække. During the war she worked at the British consulate in Stockholm and was the organizer of the many Linge-agents who used Stockholm as support station. Max and Tikken married in 1947 and they spent their whole life together. Max Manus died in 1996, at the age of 81.
But who was Max Manus ?
Max Manus was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. Max Manus was born to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother in the Norwegian city of Bergen. As a result of his father preferred a life of hunting and fishing rather than a normal family, they were divorced and he took with him Max and daughter Pia to Oslo. Few years later they moved to Cuba and his father changed his surname from Magnussen to Manus. After a time in Cuba as a seaman, he was on a longer trip in the Andes before he went back to Norway.
He came back at about the same time as the Winter War broke out, and he joined as a volunteer. After fighting as a volunteer for Finland in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War he returned to Norway on the day of the German invasion of Norway. In Norway he participated in the war actions in Pietermaritzburg, and he started working with illegal newspapers, (Vi vil oss et land), the resistance movement. He was surprised by the German Gestapo in his apartment in Vidars street in Oslo and he tried to escape, jumping out the window. However Gestapo arrested him and he was brought to Ullevål hospital.
With good friends' help, not least from the hospital's side, he managed to escape to Sweden. From here he went to England via Russia, Africa and Canada, his journey took seven months.He escaped to England for training and went back as a saboteur for the Norwegian Independent Company 1, better known as Linge Kompaniet. In March 1943, he was released in parachute over Norway together with Gregers Gram for conducting "operations Mardonius." He was a member of the later known as the Oslo gang, that the British were regarded as Europe's best sabotage group during the Second World War. Together with, among others, Gunnar Sønsteby and Gregers Gram he also took part in operations "Derby" and "Bundle" whose task was shipping sabotage and the production of illegal propaganda. Manus became a specialist in sabotage, by using limp mines. He sank ships that were important to the German Kriegsmarine like Monte Rosa and Donau.
Max Manus ended the war as a first Lieutenant and became bodyguard for the King and the Crown prince. In autumn 1945, he and Sophus Clausen went to the United States to acquire agency to office machines. Together they started the company Clausen and Manus. In the years after the war Manus employees here also quislings, the most famous was Walter Fyrst. In 1952 the company was split into two different companies; Sophus Clausen AS and Max Manus AS which still exists today.
During the war Max met Manus Ida Nikoline "Click" Lie Lind Brække. Click was the daughter of the Bergen County Governor and the sister of the Conservative Party later chairman, Bank Sjur Lind Brække. During the war she worked at the British consulate in Stockholm and was the organizer of the many Linge-agents who used Stockholm as support station. Max and Tikken married in 1947 and they spent their whole life together. Max Manus died in 1996, at the age of 81.
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