Svein Blindheim
Svein Lavik Blindheim (29 August 1916 – 17 March 2013) was a Norwegian military officer, known for his resistance work during World War II.
Life
He participated in the Battle of Fossum Bridge of the Norwegian campaign, and was later a member of the Special Operations Executive branch Norwegian Independent Company 1. In 1944 he initiated and was the first leader of the sabotage group Aks 13000, it was a part of Milorg. He was decorated with the War Cross with Sword and the War Medal with one Star for his war contributions.
In 1966 he was released from the Armed Forces after having criticized Norway's nuclear politics. In 1978 he was convicted to 75 days imprisonment for revealing espionage operations in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, even though the revealed information was made public by Finnish agents in a Finnish newspaper years before Blindheim.
NRK broadcast a documentary program about Svein Blindheim on 5 June 2006.[1] Here Blindheim placed the main responsibility for the German invasion on the Nygaardsvold government, both because it did not show the ability or willingness to defend neutrality before the war came to Norway, and because of its handling of the Altmark incident. Furthermore, he believed that the German attack was provoked by Great Britain, both through their illegal action against Altmark, frequent violations of neutrality by overflights, and actions that threatened the German iron ore deliveries via Narvik.
