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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Hedvig Delbo (13 September 1908 – 9 March 1944) was a Norwegian agent for the Gestapo during World War II.

Personal life

Hedvig Delbo was a Norwegian dressmaker.Шаблон:Sfn Her fiancé, Max Pelving was also a Gestapo agent.[1]

Gestapo agent

Delbo supplied lodging for underground (resistance) fighters in 1943 after she got them to trust her.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She then informed on them and they were arrested by the Gestapo.[2] For instance, she informed on Svend Otto Nielsen (codename John) and Jens Lillelund (Finsen) of the Holger Danske resistance group for which received 20,000 Danish kroner.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The Gestapo came for Nielsen after he left Delbo's apartment. Nielsen was wounded, arrested, and tortured.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Jens Lillelund, code name of Finn, tried to kill her for being an informer. He failed and fled to Sweden. Delbo escaped to Norway, but later returned to Copenhagen and operated a dressmaking shop under an assumed name,Шаблон:Sfn Mrs. Dam.Шаблон:Sfn

Ella von Cappeln, a former nun who worked for the resistance movement, had won Delbo's trust and gained access to her apartment, and then helped two comrades gain entry.[3]

In March 1944, it was reported in the Dagens Nyheter, that Delbo and Pelving had been arrested and wounded.[4] Delbo was then shot, also in the month of March 1944,[2][5] in her apartment on Sankelmarksgade at Vesterbro, Copenhagen by two men.[4] They were resistance fighters from the Holger Danske resistance group.Шаблон:Sfn Delbo also owned a Saxogade apartment.[4] Max was arrested by 1 June 1945 for his work for the Gestapo.[1]

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Bibliography

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