Kai Holst
Kai Holst (1913 -1945), Norwegian resistance fighter with Milorg. He was from Lillehammer, and became a central leader within the resistance movement from the autumn of 1942 when the leadership got caught by the Germanss. Holst was for quite some time the man that knew the organisation, and thus helped rebuild it. He had to escape to Sweden in the autumn of 1943. From there he worked with the Norwegian embassy; one of his tasks was to organise the courier service to and from occupied Norway. Holst returned to Norway in May 1945 and participated in the arrests at the Wehrmacht headquarters at Lillehammer in the end of June. He then suddenly went back to Stockholm, where he he was found dead on 27 June 1945. The official cause for his death was declared to be suicide. There has during the years been discussed whether his death could have been a liquidation connected with his findings in Lillehammer. Many of the central German intelligence personnel had escaped to Sweden, possibly arranged by the Americans in Operation Paperclip or TICOM as part of securing their knowledge against the Soviets.
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