Osvald Group
[1][2][3] Numbering more than 200 members, it committed at least 110 acts of sabotage against Nazi occupying forces and the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling.[1][4][note 1] The organisation is perhaps best known for conducting the first act of resistance against the German occupation of Norway, when on 2 February 1942, it detonated a bomb at Oslo East Station in protest against Quisling's inauguration as Minister-President.[5] Following Hjelmen's arrest in 1938[dubious – discuss] by Swedish authorities, Asbjørn Sunde, who used Osvald as a cover name, led the group through the end of the German occupation.The group undertook its first railway sabotage mission on 20 July 1941, the explosion of a Wehrmacht train at Nyland Station in Oslo.Sunde established a sabotage training center in Rukkedalen and recruited a network of saboteurs in the Torpo-Gol and Nesbyen area—and through Hallingdal and towards Oslo and Bergen.In September 1942, Sunde agreed to supply guards at the communist party's central camp in Hemsedal in exchange for practical and financial support.[7] ("Saborg was originally created and developed as the Bergen chapter of the international ship sabotage organization under Ernst Wollweber's leadership.On 30 May 1995 a plaquette was installed on a wall of an atrium that leads to Østbanehallen (from Jernbanetorget in Oslo), listing employees of the State Railways [of which at least two were "Osvald members"] who died during World War II.On the base of the monument are two plaquettes and one inscription: an Asbjørn Sunde quote, "It was worth fighting for the freedom—for all nations, for all races, for all classes, for all people".