Narrator: Marchand Steenkamp.
About the story: Siegfried Fehmer was one of the most feared Gestapo officers operating in occupied Norway during World War II. Rising rapidly within the Nazi security apparatus, Fehmer became a central figure in the brutal repression of the Norwegian resistance and a symbol of terror under German occupation. Born in Munich in 1911, Fehmer joined the Nazi Party at an early age and built his career within the Gestapo, where his legal training and ideological loyalty made him a valuable instrument of the regime. After Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, Fehmer was transferred to Oslo and assigned to counterintelligence operations. Norway was of vital strategic importance to Nazi Germany, and suppressing resistance became a top priority. Under Fehmer’s influence, the Gestapo constructed an extensive network of informers, arrests, and interrogations aimed at dismantling the Norwegian underground. Resistance members, civilians, and suspected collaborators were subjected to brutal questioning, psychological terror, and physical torture.
Fehmer gained a reputation for combining outward politeness with sudden violence during interrogations, a method designed to break prisoners mentally as well as physically. He personally participated in interrogations and played a key role in implementing enhanced interrogation methods approved by SS leadership, including Heinrich Himmler. Victims testified to beatings, broken bones, sleep deprivation, and long-term physical and psychological damage. One of his most notorious victims was resistance leader Lauritz Sand, whose torture became emblematic of Gestapo brutality in Norway. As resistance activity intensified through organizations such as Milorg, Nazi repression escalated. Executions increased, prisons filled, and entire resistance networks were destroyed. In 1945, during the final months of occupation, Fehmer became head of Gestapo Department IV in Oslo, overseeing counterintelligence and interrogations as Nazi Germany collapsed. After the war, Fehmer attempted to evade justice by disguising himself as an ordinary soldier, but he was captured by Allied forces. Norwegian courts tried him for torture and war crimes. On 16 March 1948, Siegfried Fehmer was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress in Oslo, ending the career of one of the most ruthless agents of Nazi terror in Norway.
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