Assigned to NRK for three decades, she was a pioneer in bringing up controversial issues such as abortion, incest, rape, dementia, imprisonment of juveniles, and trading of weapons.
[3][4] Growing up in this environment was part of forming her childhood, while in her youth she experienced the outbreak of the Second World War, the German occupation, and civil resistance from the population.
[2] In the chaotic period following the German invasion, she and her family abandoned Oslo, heading northwards, eventually crossing the Swedish border east of Mo i Rana in May 1940.
The 17-year-old Dagmar accompanied Nobel Prize laureate Sigrid Undset, famous for her anti-Nazi speeches, during the last part of the flight.
[5] She was also incarcerated at the Grini concentration camp for a short period in February 1945;[1] Norsk fangeleksikon cites Flykningehjelp (refugee assistance) as cause of arrest.