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A fact from Bjarne Keyser Barth appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
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" In 1942, Barth was arrested by the occupying German forces and sent as a prisoner of war to Germany."
Is arrested a common word for someone captured by enemy in a war? (as opposed to arrested by the police, etc.) HaEr48 (talk) 23:38, 16 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
I'll clarify it in the article. He was arrested by the Gestapo, held at Grini, then later sent to Germany. So, yes, he was arrested. Seeing as Norway was occupied by 1942, and Barth wasn't fighting in armed forces at the time, "arrested" is the correct word. He wasn't captured in military operations. Manxruler (talk) 13:59, 17 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
Ah makes sense, I thought he was captured in combat or the surrender of the fort. Is there any information about why he was arrested? HaEr48 (talk) 17:35, 17 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
He was taken prisoner in 1940 too, after the surrender of the fortress. The bit you quoted above refers to events in 1942. In 1942 the Germans started rounding up Norwegian regular officers and first detaining them at Grini, then shipping them to prisoner-of-war camps in Germany/Poland. This took place because the Germans noted that a number of Norwegian officers had involved themselves in the Norwegian resistance movement. In response to this, the Germans carried out mass arrests of officers, some 1,100 in total. Officers over the age of 60, and those who were collaborationists, were not arrested. Barth was one of the officers that the Germans felt that they could not trust, despite him not being involved in the resistance. I'll add something on that to the article soon. Manxruler (talk) 18:58, 17 April 2017 (UTC)Reply
