Early Life
Sunde was born in Bergen in 1915. His family moved from Holsnøy to Oslo in 1930. During World War II, Sunde was a leader of a local group of Milorg, the Norwegian armed resistance against the Nazi occupation. Sunde was present at Akershus Fortress in Oslo on May 8, 1945, when Germany capitulated and formally handed the fortress over to Milorg. The Norwegian flag was raised for the first time since 1940, and Norway was a free and sovereign nation again.
Read more about this topic: Olaf Sunde
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)