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brilliant young architect son of the famous
explorer Fridtjof Nansen; we had worked together
there until 1940 and become great friends. When
he was brought before me and I saw him snatch
off his cap and stand to attention as all prisoners
were required to do when in the presence of a
German of rank—the commandant was with me
—I boiled with anger at this example of German
so-called discipline. Odd Nansen was one of those
Norwegians who had risked everything, one of
the many sent to concentration camps. Here they
were, then, all these Scandinavian patriots. We
had been able to obtain a complete list, for in our
previous negotiations with the Germans it had
been agreed that every prisoner collected by the
Swedish detachment should be given a form on
which to enter his name and the state of his health.
At first the Germans had objected, but I
understand that we outmaneuvered them by pointing
out that we should be responsible for getting the
prisoners in our charge to Neuengamme, and that
we could not accept this responsibility without a
list of names. We were thus very quickly in
possession of complete statistics concerning all the
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