Alf Grindrud
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Alf Martinius Grindrud was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
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During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement
. He was arrested in January 1944, and spent time at the concentration camps Grini, Natzweiler, Dachau, Ottobrunn, Dautmergen and Vaihingen
. In April 1945 sixteen Norwegians were liberated by the White Buses
from Vaihingen, among them Grindrud and later Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli
.
Grindrud served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Buskerud county
during the term 1945–1949.
Norwegian Labour Party
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
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During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement
Norwegian resistance movement
The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:...
. He was arrested in January 1944, and spent time at the concentration camps Grini, Natzweiler, Dachau, Ottobrunn, Dautmergen and Vaihingen
Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp
Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp, near the city of Vaihingen an der Enz in the Neckar region of Germany, was a slave labor camp for armament manufacturing built by the Todt organization, and then became an extermination camp.The camp was built in late 1943 - early 1944 as part of a secret...
. In April 1945 sixteen Norwegians were liberated by the White Buses
White Buses
"White Buses" refers to a program undertaken by the Swedish Red Cross and the Danish government in the spring of 1945 to rescue concentration camp inmates in areas under Nazi control and transport them to Sweden, a neutral country...
from Vaihingen, among them Grindrud and later Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli
Trygve Bratteli
was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway in 1971–1972 and 1973–1976.-Early life and career:...
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Grindrud served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Buskerud county
Market towns of Buskerud county
The Market towns of Buskerud county was an electoral district for parliamentary elections in Norway. It comprised the market towns of Drammen, Hønefoss and Kongsberg in Buskerud county....
during the term 1945–1949.