Son Shares 8 Lessons His Dad Taught Him After Being Held Captive By The Gestapo For Resisting Nazis
The Norwegian resistance against the Nazi regime in Norway began in 1940, shortly after the beginning of World War II. Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the German capitulation in Europe at the beginning of May 1945. During the occupation, Norwegian resistance took several forms: the initial defense in Southern Norway, which allowed the government to escape capture, then – asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, followed by organized military defense and counter-attacks. Finally, the armed resistance in the form of sabotage, commando raids, assassinations, and civil disobedience and unarmed resistance as well. Of course, those who joined the resistance were punished harshly. One of those people is the dad of Tor Ekeland – a lawyer based in Brooklyn, New York – who shared a captivating story about the lessons his father learned while being in the Norwegian Resistance and spending four days being held by the Gestapo.
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“My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought I’m never going to need this stuff,” Tor wrote on Twitter. He then went on to list eight lessons that his dad taught him: make it hard for your adversary to operate, take small acts, use your privilege and access if you’ve got it, do things right in the open, bide your time, operate in cells, be careful who you trust and finally – use the skills you already have to contribute. Tor’s Twitter post with dad’s advice soon went viral, with more than 70k people liking it and almost 37k retweeting the post.
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Tor ended his viral thread with an ironic comment about the President, saying that “we don’t have a President who openly admires and coddles dictators while trashing our democratic allies.” We sure don’t…
Other people shared Nazi-related stories as well
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A Twitter user Doug Horne also chimed into the discussion, mentioning a quote from a child survivor of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Not that long time ago, Bored Panda wrote about the tragic destiny of the children in that village.
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Share on FacebookGood read, and I so did have his last point in mind for the entire read. Let's hope democracy works....
We can't just hope democracy works. We have to hold our leaders accountable. We have to vote and vote often. We have to protest.
Load More Replies...I'm writing all of this down. You never know what will happen in the furture.
In my mother's family, we know this. Anyone who says it can't happen to them... will either vanish or be the one making it happen. Through apathy or action.
Resistance should make the enemy hurt. Force him to lose manpower, energy, equipment and time. This man has my total respect for fighting against nazis, like all people who did so, but not serving someone fast in the restaurant is not resistance.
By all means, serve them in the restaurant. I understand a few drops of Visine in the coffee can cause an annoying (but not deadly) case of the trots.
Load More Replies...That Tor guy should be careful, he might get attacked by Antifa for being an old white guy.
I'm half fkn Syrian my grandfather lived Hitler because of the slavery and mass murder the Jews did to our family , I DONT GIVE ZERO FKS ABOUT NAZIS POS, OR ANYONE ELSE KILLING,ENSLAVING, RAPING ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY FKN REASON. DONT TALK TO ME ABOUT WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO BE LR HOW I FEEL. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN. FK THE NAZIS, AND ANYONE ELSE LIKE THEM
A lot of that is very similar to the techniques contained within the 1944 OSS Manual of Simple Sabotage. The similarities are probably not coincidental as the OSS were providing advice and assistance to the various European resistance groups. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?r=US&IR=T
The democrats already have their wannabe brown shirts, Antifa. But they can't fight.
They also can't be bothered to work for a living, they just steal from the people they attack.
Load More Replies...President Trump made the world a much more dangerous place by leaving the Kurds to fend for themselves and essentially giving part of their territory as a present to Erdogan. Putin, in the meantime, is of course grinning. Destabilisationplans are going great! The advice Tor Ekeland's father gave him may well come in handy in places we were certain we would not have to deal with acts of war or invaders. "Peace on Earth" should not be something we remember only at X-mas. We need to make a stand for it.
President? I thought there was a King in Norway....EDIT: Sorry, I didn't got the irony...
On the (small) chance you're serious: Tor's dad emigrated to the USA.
Load More Replies...I wish we had REAL democracy and not this effing Republic bullshirt... And draw electoral maps with a grid, and then you can't have gerrymandering either.
Democracy ends i Mob rule. As a republic, we avoid that. I do agree with the gerrymandering though.
Load More Replies...History shows us that ordinary people can do unspeakable things to others if they are dehumanised. Campaigning and speaking against Nazis and the far right the one of the most important things we can do right now, but if we cease to look at them as humans we've already lost.
Load More Replies...Good read, and I so did have his last point in mind for the entire read. Let's hope democracy works....
We can't just hope democracy works. We have to hold our leaders accountable. We have to vote and vote often. We have to protest.
Load More Replies...I'm writing all of this down. You never know what will happen in the furture.
In my mother's family, we know this. Anyone who says it can't happen to them... will either vanish or be the one making it happen. Through apathy or action.
Resistance should make the enemy hurt. Force him to lose manpower, energy, equipment and time. This man has my total respect for fighting against nazis, like all people who did so, but not serving someone fast in the restaurant is not resistance.
By all means, serve them in the restaurant. I understand a few drops of Visine in the coffee can cause an annoying (but not deadly) case of the trots.
Load More Replies...That Tor guy should be careful, he might get attacked by Antifa for being an old white guy.
I'm half fkn Syrian my grandfather lived Hitler because of the slavery and mass murder the Jews did to our family , I DONT GIVE ZERO FKS ABOUT NAZIS POS, OR ANYONE ELSE KILLING,ENSLAVING, RAPING ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY FKN REASON. DONT TALK TO ME ABOUT WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO BE LR HOW I FEEL. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN. FK THE NAZIS, AND ANYONE ELSE LIKE THEM
A lot of that is very similar to the techniques contained within the 1944 OSS Manual of Simple Sabotage. The similarities are probably not coincidental as the OSS were providing advice and assistance to the various European resistance groups. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?r=US&IR=T
The democrats already have their wannabe brown shirts, Antifa. But they can't fight.
They also can't be bothered to work for a living, they just steal from the people they attack.
Load More Replies...President Trump made the world a much more dangerous place by leaving the Kurds to fend for themselves and essentially giving part of their territory as a present to Erdogan. Putin, in the meantime, is of course grinning. Destabilisationplans are going great! The advice Tor Ekeland's father gave him may well come in handy in places we were certain we would not have to deal with acts of war or invaders. "Peace on Earth" should not be something we remember only at X-mas. We need to make a stand for it.
President? I thought there was a King in Norway....EDIT: Sorry, I didn't got the irony...
On the (small) chance you're serious: Tor's dad emigrated to the USA.
Load More Replies...I wish we had REAL democracy and not this effing Republic bullshirt... And draw electoral maps with a grid, and then you can't have gerrymandering either.
Democracy ends i Mob rule. As a republic, we avoid that. I do agree with the gerrymandering though.
Load More Replies...History shows us that ordinary people can do unspeakable things to others if they are dehumanised. Campaigning and speaking against Nazis and the far right the one of the most important things we can do right now, but if we cease to look at them as humans we've already lost.
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