![]() ![]() This work was part of a commission for the New York Times Magazine, written by Robert Kolker in 2016. For decades, his escape made him into a Norwegian national folk hero, even as the man himself remained frustratingly opaque, almost unknowable. By the end, Baalsrud was less a hero than a package in need of safe delivery, out of Nazi hands. Though he too has been shot,that one survivor, Jan Baalsrud, takes off on a courageous, incredible trek into the wilds of the Lyngen. In 1939 Jan Baalsrud graduated as an instrument-maker but in 1940, he went to Vestfold to fight against the German invasion. He spent the last several weeks tied on a stretcher, near death, as teams of Norwegian villagers dragged him up and down hills and snowy mountains. One of the most astonishing and enthralling true adventure stories ever put to the screen It begins with an ambushed commando raid which leaves all but one of the expatriate resistance fighters dead or captured. Jan Sigurd Baalsrud was born in Oslo on Decemand is best known for one of the wildest and most unfathomable survival stories from WWII, becoming a Norwegian folk hero in the process. Alone for two more weeks in a cave, he used a knife to amputate several of his own frostbitten toes to stop the spread of gangrene. He was entombed alive in snow for another four days and abandoned under open skies for five more. Episodios que se están reproduciendo ahora. He wandered in a snowstorm for three days. Jan Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 30 December 1988) was a commando in the Norwegian resistance trained by the British during World War II. What happened over those nine weeks remains one of the wildest, most unfathomable survival stories of World War II. After swimming to shore and shooting two German soldiers he was the only crew member to evade capture, and remained in hiding in the mountainous winter terrain for two months until escaping into Sweden. He and his wife, Wenche, live in Jessheim, Norway, with their daughter, Carolin.This is the story of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian soldier who in March 1943 took a task force of 11 commandos into the fjords aboard the Brattholm, a fishing vessel full of explosives, with the intention of sabotaging the Nazi occupation in Tromsø. They were quickly discovered in Toftefjord following a tip off, the ship was abandoned and scuttled, and Baalsrud survived both the explosion and the gunfire that followed. Haug obtained his professional pilot’s license in the United States and Norway and flew as an executive pilot for five years. ![]() He has practiced medicine in Germany and Norway, and is fluent in German, Norwegian, and English. He studied and received his medical degree from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. ![]() Haug is an M.D., a specialized general practitioner with a private practice in Norway. Today, he is the person who knows the story better than anyone else in Norway. Haug wanted to accurately tell the entire story of Jan and his incredible escape from the Gestapo, and of the undaunted courage of his many benefactors. He found many people whose efforts on Jan’s behalf had not been acknowledged in previous accounts. In 1995, after much research, he traveled with his family to the Troms District in northern Norway to further investigate Jan’s story. He has been fascinated with Baalsrud's escape story since meeting Jan once as a boy in 1956. Tore Haug is a second cousin of Jan Baalsrud. ![]() Meticulously researched for more than five years, Karlsen Scott and Haug bring forth the truth behind this captivating, edge-of-your-seat, real-life survival story.ĭr. Suffering from snowblindness and frostbite, more than sixty people of the Troms District risk their lives to help Baalsrud to freedom. The only survivor and wounded, Baalsrud begins a perilous journey to freedom, swimming icy fjords, climbing snow-covered peaks, enduring snowstorms, and getting caught in a monstrous avalanche. However, they were betrayed, and a German boat attacked the cutter, creating a battlefield and spiraling Jan Baalsrud into the adventure of his life. In late March 1943, in the midst of WWII, four Norwegian saboteurs arrived in northern Norway on a fishing cutter and set anchor in Toftefjord to establish a base for their operations. Defiant Courage is the true story of what Jan Baalsrud endured as he tried to escape from the Gestapo in Norway’s Troms District. I sincerely believe we did,” writes author Astrid Karlsen Scott. Since I was a Norwegian that was not good enough I had to find the truth. Then when we went to Norway to do a docudrama, people told us again and again that certain parts were pure fiction. "I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it. ![]()
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