Memorial Osvald Group

The Osvald Group was a Norwegian organisation that was the most active World War II resistance group in Norway from 1941 to the summer of 1944. Numbering more than 200 members, it committed at least 110 acts of sabotage against Nazi occupying forces and the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling. The organisation is perhaps best known for conducting the first act of resistance against the German occupation of Norway, when on 2 February 1942, it detonated a bomb at Oslo East Station in protest against Quisling's inauguration as Minister-President.

The group had around 200 members.

Sculpted by Bjorn Melbye and unveiled on 1st May 2015 in front of Oslo's Central Railway Station. the monument depicts a silver hammer smashing a silver swastika. The hammer and swastika rest atop a large boulder with the inscription "It was worth fighting for freedom for all nations, for all races, for all classes, for all people" Asbjorn Sunde. (leader Osvald Group)

There are 2 plaques on the bedrock, one to members of the Osvald Group who gave their lives in the war 1940 to 1945 and the other to members of the State Railway who also gave their lives. Two names appear on both plaques.

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