Article on Reidar Dittman-Norwegian Buchenwald POW (1 Viewer)

[Shannon Reuss]

I found this to be a really interesting article on Reidar Dittman, a former professor at St. Olaf College who was accused by the Nazis of organizing anti-Nazi demonstrations in Norway when he was a college student. He survived Buchenwald and immigrated to the United States.
Here is the link to the article:
http://www.stolaf.edu/offices/communications/magazine/2005spring/renaissanceman.pdf
I wanted to paste the part about his war experiences onto the forum but it is a PDF file so you will just have to link to the whole article. I thought it was interesting to read the perspective of a Norwegian immigrating to the US after the war. St. Olaf, as you can guess by the name is steeped in Norwegian tradition and my alma mater. (Um ya ya!)

Shannon

 

[Leadmen]

My aunts went to St. Olaf-(Norweigan side). Did Betty White on Mary Tyler Moore show always say she went to St. Olaf? No Swedish Jokes - my wife is Swedish. Through the weeds ran one thousand Swedes chased by one Norweigian. Leadmen

 

[Shannon Reuss]

No, on the show Golden Girls Betty White was always rambling on about her fictional hometown of St. Olaf. We Oles get that a lot, in fact so often that Betty White actually was invited to come to the campus and speak a few years ago. I wasn't there then but I did get to hear former President Jimmy Carter speak there once.