Roy Nielsen and Max Manus both were a resistance fighter/member of what World War?
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Roy Nielsen Roy Nielsen (27 March 1916 – 4 April 1945) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II, a member of Milorg and involved in propaganda and sabotage. Among his sabotage operations was the destruction of 25 Messerschmitt fighter aircraft and 150 engines stored in a bus garage in Oslo, on 14 August 1944, together with Max Manus, Gunnar Sønsteby and others. Together with Max Manus he succeeded in sinking the German troop ship SS "Donau" in the Oslofjord 16 January 1945, by placing magnetic limpet mines with time delay on the ship's side.
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Max Manus Maximo Guillermo "Max" Manus DSO, MC & Bar (9 December 1914 – 20 September 1996) was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, specializing in sabotage in occupied Norway. After the war he wrote several books about his adventures and started the successful office supply company "Max Manus AS".
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Max Hymans Max Hymans (March 2, 1900 in Paris – March 7, 1961 in Saint-Cloud), was a notable leftist French politician, member of the resistance, and director of Air France.
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Erling Bauck Erling Bauck (8 April 1924 – February 2004) was a Norwegian resistance member and writer. He was in Nazi captivity from 1942 to 1945 under World War II, first in Norway, from 1944 in Auschwitz.
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Heinz Drossel Heinz Drossel (21 September 1916 – 28 April 2008) was a German lieutenant in World War II who was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, shared with his parents, for helping Jews escape persecution. He was the son of Paul and Elfriede Drossel, anti-Nazis and shared their political philosophy, refusing to join the Nazi Party. Drafted in November 1939, Drossel served in the Battle of France before serving on the Eastern Front for the rest of the war.
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Jacques Bingen Jacques Bingen (16 March 1908 - 12 May 1944) was a high-ranking member of the French Resistance during World War II who, when captured by the Gestapo, chose to commit suicide rather than risk divulging what he knew under torture.
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Niels Nielsen Kjær Niels Nielsen Kjær (2 April 1903 – 29 June 1944) was a member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
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Eugen Johannessen Eugen Monrad Johannessen (1892 – 1975) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He served in Oslo city council, but is best known for his work in the party organization. He was also known as a trade unionist, and as a resistance member during the Second World War.
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Franz Jacob (Resistance fighter) Franz Jacob (August 9, 1906 – September 18, 1944) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialists and a Communist politician.
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Fermán Cienfuegos José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, better known by hius nom de guerre Fermán Cienfuegos (born 6 March 1947) was the leader of the Salvadoran organization Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional ("National Resistance Armed Forces" in English, part of Resistencia Nacional or "RN"). He was born in San José, Costa Rica.
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Martin Siem Ole Martin Siem (6 January 1915 – 3 November 1996) was a Norwegian businessperson and World War II resistance member.
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Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (14 May 1914 – 2 August 2006) was a militant communist who took part in the French Resistance during the Second World War, and a French politician. Along with General Leclerc and Henri Rol-Tanguy, he accepted the surrender of Dietrich von Choltitz at the Liberation of Paris.
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Lim Bo Seng Lim Bo Seng (27 April 1909 – 29 June 1944) was a Chinese resistance fighter based in Singapore and Malaya during World War II. He is regarded as a war hero in Singapore.
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Andries Jan Pieters Andries Jan Pieters (1916 – 21 March 1952) was a Dutch war criminal and, together with Artur Albrecht, was one of the last two people to be executed in the Netherlands. Pieters served as a volunteer for Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. When he was wounded he returned to the Netherlands and in the final months of World War II he had led a SS commando in the Netherlands, which tortured and executed resistance members and others.
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Groupe du musée de l'Homme The Groupe du musée de l'Homme (French: Group of the Museum of Man) was a movement in the French resistance to the German occupation during the Second World War.
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Otto Schmirgal Otto Schmirgal (15 December 1900 – 24 October 1944) was a German workman, politician, and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.
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Jane Horney "Jane" Ebba Charlotta Horney (married Granberg), (8 July 1918 – 20 January 1945) was a Swedish woman, believed to have spied in Denmark for the benefit of Nazi Germany, and to have been killed by the Danish resistance movement on a fishing boat at Øresund, but it has never been confirmed for which nation she actually worked. The Gestapo in Denmark believed that she was an agent for the British or Soviet Union, and after World War II it was denied that she had been a Gestapo agent. Abwehr officers likewise denied, when inquired by Säpo (Swedish intelligence), that she had been their agent.
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Arnold Christensen Arnold Christensen (8 April 1922 – 29 March 1944), was a New Zealand Mustang fighter pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War during the Dieppe Raid, he is notable for the part he took in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 and as one of the men recaptured and subsequently executed by the "Gestapo".
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Georges Blind Georges Blind (1904 – October 1944) was a French man who was a member of the French resistance during World War II.
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Manolis Glezos Manolis Glezos (Greek: Μανώλης Γλέζος ; born 9 September 1922) is a Greek left wing politician and writer, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance.
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Egbert Hayessen Egbert Hayessen (28 December 1913 – 15 August 1944) was a German resistance fighter in the struggle against Adolf Hitler, and a major in the army.
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German bombing of Rotterdam The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the "Luftwaffe" on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II. The objective was to support the German troops fighting in the city, break Dutch resistance and force the Dutch to surrender. Even though preceding negotiations resulted in a ceasefire, the bombardment took place nonetheless, in conditions which remain controversial, and destroyed almost the entire historic city centre, killing nearly 900 people and making 85,000 others homeless.