Gunnar Soensteby, shown here at the 2010 Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival, died today. He was in the Kompani Linge, which fought against the German occupation in World War II. Soensteby was Norway’s most highly decorated person.
His group was considered the best saboteurs in Europe, led by Max Manus (he died in 1996) along with Soensteby.
It was the basis for the film, Max Manus.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins