This is one of them most miraculous survival stories that took place during World War II. It is year 1943 and twelve saboteurs on a fishing boat are caught by German soldiers. Eleven of them are being tortured and killed, the twelve - Jan Baalsrud, manages to escape. Although he is shot in the foot, drenched and with a hundred meters of lead, Jan Baalsrud makes an amazing two-month escape into the merciless Northern Norse winter with Gestapo in his heels. Supported by many people, Jan Baalsrud becomes a symbol of the Norwegian resistance movement against the Nazi regime.
This is one of them most miraculous survival stories that took place during World War II. It is year 1943 and twelve saboteurs on a fishing boat are caught by German soldiers. Eleven of them are being tortured and killed, the twelve - Jan Baalsrud, manages to escape. Although he is shot in the foot, drenched and with a hundred meters of lead, Jan Baalsrud makes an amazing two-month escape into the merciless Northern Norse winter with Gestapo in his heels. Supported by many people, Jan Baalsrud becomes a symbol of the Norwegian resistance movement against the Nazi regime.