Petter Moen was a Norwegian resistance member later known for his diaries.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and ended on May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht...

 he edited the underground newspaper London Nytt. He was arrested in February 1944 when the German occupiers discovered several undercover newspapers, spent time imprisoned at Møllergata 19

Møllergata 19

Møllergata 19 is an address in Oslo, Norway where the city's main police station and jail was located. The address gained notoriety during the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, when the Nazi security police kept its headquarters here...

, and perished during transport to Germany with the ship SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen was a German ship built in 1906 at J.C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde.In the early 1930s the Westfalen was converted into a seaplane tender to serve as both weather reporting and refueling station for Dornier Wal flying boats of Lufthansa carrying mail trans-Atlantic between Europe and...

in September 1944. He is particularly known for his diary written with a pin on toilet paper during imprisonment. The manuscript was found after the war and published in 1949 as Petter Moens dagbok; it has been translated into several languages.