Sverre Bergh

Sverre Bergh (1 November 1920 – 30 April 2006) was a Norwegian engineer who served as a spy in Nazi Germany during World War II.

His role was to investigate information given to him by Paul Rosbaud and report this back to XU and the British Secret Intelligence Service, while living under the cover of being a student.

[2] As a student in Dresden, Bergh could travel relatively freely in Nazi Germany and gather intelligence material.

With help from Norwegian author Svein Sæter, Sverre Bergh told his story in the book Spion i Hitlers Rike, which was published shortly after his death in 2006.

Dresden burned intensely after the bombing and the heat created such a strong draft that people and cars were dragged into the flames.

The stream of fleeing residents Bergh was among was attacked on 14 February by Allied planes with machine guns.

In March 1945, he obtained documents showing that he worked for the Red Cross, which ran evacuations with the White Buses.

Bergh also received other documents which showed that he worked for the Swedish authorities, and that he was allowed to have his own car and buy petrol.

After the last visit to Rosbaud in Berlin on 20 April, he made the journey north as far as possible from Soviet forces advancing from the east.

Together they drove to Flensburg and were there when the last remnants of German central administration headed by Dönitz moved there after Berlin fell on 2 May.