Arne Saatvedt

Arne Braa Saatvedt
Born	(1922-06-18)18 June 1922 Meråker, Norway
Died	20 October 1945(1945-10-20) (aged 23) Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Years of service	1941–1945
Rank	SS and Statspolitiet officer
Unit	5th SS Panzer Division Wiking 23. SS-Panzergrenadierregiment Norge Statspolitiet
Battles/wars	World War II[1]

Arne Braa Saatvedt (18 June 1922 – 20 October 1945) was a Norwegian police official and member of the fascist party Nasjonal Samling who was sentenced to death and executed in 1945. Saatvedt was born in Meråker in Nord-Trøndelag. As a 19 year-old he volunteered the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and 23. SS-Panzergrenadierregiment Norge. He joined the Statspolitiet in 1943, and served as interpreter and investigator at the German Sicherheitspolizei in Lillehammer.^[1]

In the post-war legal purge he was sentenced to death for illegal detention, torture, bodily harm, aggravated assault with dangerous tools and maltreatment of his own countrymen, to death on 14 August 1945 by Eidsivating Court of Appeal. Arne Braa Saatvedt was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress on 20 October 1945.^[2]

References

1. 1 2 Torturerte sine landsmenn Veum: Dette er Gestapos verste norske sadister VG (Norwegian)
2. ↑ Erik Veum: Nådeløse nordmenn: Gestapo. Biography, page 652 (Norwegian) ISBN 978-82-489-1507-2