Petter Moen (14 February 1901 – 8 September 1944) was a Norwegian resistance member later known for his diaries. During the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

he edited the

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'' London-Nytt''. He was arrested in February 1944 when the German occupiers discovered several undercover newspapers. Moen spent time imprisoned at

Møllergata 19 Møllergata 19 is an address in Oslo, Norway where the city's main police station and jail was located. The address gained notoriety during the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, when the Nazi security police kept its headquarters here. This is ...

, and he perished during transport to Germany with the ship SS ''Westfalen'' in September 1944. He is particularly known for his diary written with a pin on toilet paper during imprisonment. The manuscript was found after the war and published in 1949 as ''Petter Moens dagbok''; it has been translated into several languages.

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1901 births 1944 deaths Norwegian resistance members Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian diarists People from Drammen Deaths due to shipwreck at sea 20th-century Norwegian writers Norwegian military personnel killed in World War II 20th-century diarists {{Norway-bio-stub