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THE OFFICIAL BJØRN EGGE PROJECT

BJØRN EGGE

Soldier. Prisoner. Witness. Warrior for Peace.

Book cover for A Warrior for Peace by Bjørn Egge

THE BOOK

A Warrior for Peace

Captured by the Nazis. Driven to serve peace.

Bjørn Egge survived Hitler's notorious Night and Fog system, Sonnenburg and Sachsenhausen. But survival was only the beginning.

He returned from the camps to become a Norwegian military officer, intelligence officer, UN peacekeeper in the Congo, military attaché in Moscow during the Cold War, Commandant of Akershus Fortress and President of the Norwegian Red Cross.

Told in his own voice, A Warrior for Peace is the extraordinary true story of a man who experienced tyranny at its worst – and spent the rest of his life trying to prevent it from happening again.

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THE DOCUMENTARY

Bjørn Egge — in his own voice

Watch Bjørn Egge tell his own story in A Warrior for Peace — first-hand testimony preserved with historical context for new audiences.

Watch Bjørn tell his own story.

THE INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

A life shaped for the screen

Bjørn Egge's extraordinary life is being developed as an international feature-film project — from war, resistance and captivity to intelligence, diplomacy, humanitarian leadership and a lifelong commitment to peace.

The film project draws on the book, the documentary testimony and the documented family archive.

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About the trailer: The trailer is entirely AI-generated. No actors, locations or cameras were used. It shows the tone and scale of a film that would be made the ordinary way, with a cast and a crew. Every scene is based on Bjørn Egge’s own memoir. Discover the film

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THE ARCHIVE

The evidence behind the story

Authentic photographs, documents, honours and first-hand sources preserve the record behind the book, documentary and film project.

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Participants at the Oslo military language course, 1963–1964
Oslo military language course, 1963–1964. Family Archive.
Historical diploma from the Bjørn Egge archive
Diploma from the Bjørn Egge archive. Family Archive.
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