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They met in 1943 when she became his girlfriend and later his fiancée. Together they surveyed the German defences in and around Oslo – facts that Chapman later detailed to his British handlers upon his return. One of the sites that they reported on was the home of the Norwegian leader and traitor Vidkun Quisling.
Although they had talked about and partly planned to open a bar or club together in Paris after the war and about having children together, when the war actually ended Chapman returned to England and abandoned Lahlum, who never got over their relationship remaining single and childless.
Lahlum was branded as a "German tart" for her relationship with Chapman, as the Norwegians were quite unaware that he was an Englishman.
She pleaded guilty during the treason trials held in 1947 and was fined by the Norwegians, who remained in ignorance of the true situation, never revealing his secret until her death from of Parkinson's disease in 1999.
Her story is partly recounted in the book Agent Zigzag.

Dagmar Lahlum
Eddie Chapman


