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May 14, 1915 - Henry Rinnan

Operating as an informant and agent for the German occupation forces, Rinnan built a network that penetrated Norwegian resistance cells through infiltration and deception, leading to the capture, torture, and death of scores of his own countrymen. The scale of betrayal he orchestrated from within made him one of the most damaging collaborators of the occupation period.

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Henry Rinnan

Henry Oliver Rinnan (14 May 1915 – 1 February 1947) was a Norwegian Gestapo agent. Rinnan led a group called Sonderabteilung Lola in the area around Trondheim Municipality, Norway, during World War II. This group, known as Rinnanbanden among Norwegians, had fifty known members, including Ivar and Kitty Grande.

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