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His entries also reveal
the quiet strength, and
sometimes ugly prejudices,
of his fellow Norwegian
inmates, his constantly
frustrated hopes for an early
end to the war, his longing
for his wife and children,
and his horror at the
especially barbaric treatment
reserved for the Jews. These
latter were consigned to the
" trotting gang " in Grini,
and were forced to perform
all work at double time.
Jews were not allowed in
the hospital or infi rmary,
nor permitted to purchase
tobacco, privileges accorded
even to criminals.
The diary depicts Nansen's
daily struggle, not only to
Nansen never intended to publish the diary,
but wrote it simply as a way to communicate with
his wife Kari, and as a means of sorting out his
thoughts and impressions; it became, he wrote,
his " private manner of forgetting. "
survive, but to preserve
his sanity and maintain
his humanity in a world
engulfed by fear and hate.
And through it all he
wondered whether anyone
would " believe this when we
come to describe it. " In fact
Nansen was unsure he could
adequately describe all that
he saw and heard; it " was so
horrible, so incomprehensible
in ghastliness, that it defi es
all description. "
Nansen initially smuggled
diary pages out of Grini
to Kari under various
subterfuges: slipped into a
visitor's pocket; hidden in
the surrounding woods for
later pickup; Nansen even
bribed a German soldier
to deliver a section directly
to Kari at home. En route
to Kvænangen, Nansen
entrusted diary sections to
complete strangers in hopes
they would make it back
to Kari. Once in Germany,
however, Nansen needed
to devise a more ingenious
method for preserving
his writing in light of the
thorough searches every
incoming and outgoing
prisoner faced. In a moment
of inspiration, he realized
that he could safely hide
his work in the hollowedout
interior of the one item
routinely allowed to all
prisoners-their breadboards.
Upon liberation in April 1945
by the Swedish Red Cross,
Nansen and fi ve friends
spirited out his entire record
for the preceding eighteen
months, right under the noses
1944
June 6 D-Day, the Allied invasion
of Europe begins
July 20 Assassination attempt on
Adolf Hitler
Sachsenhausen Prison
1945
January 17 Thomas Buergenthal
starts Auschwitz Death March
February 16 Nansen meets
Buergenthal
March 20 Nansen transported to
Neuengamme Prison, Germany
April 28 Odd Nansen evacuated
from Neuengamme on White
Buses to Denmark, then Sweden
April 30 Hitler commits suicide
May 8 V-E Day, the Allied military
mission arrives in Norway to
coordinate German capitulation
May 9 Quisling arrested
June 7 King Haakon VII returns
to Norway
June 10 Odd Nansen returns to
Oslo and is reunited with family
October 24 Quisling executed at
Akershus Castle
1946
Nansen delivers supplies to wardevastated
Germans on behalf of
Norwegian Aid to Europe (now
Norwegian Refugee Council)
1950
Odd Nansen visits Germany on
behalf of UNESCO
2 Veidal, Kvænangen, Norway
Roll call at Grini Prison
PRISONER OF
WAR JOURNEY
1 Grini, Bærum, Norway
4
Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Germany
Neuengamme, Germany
3
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