Reidar Omang was a Norwegian historian and librarian. He edited several governmental doucments on Norway during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, including treatises on Norway's relation to Sweden, on the Altmark Incident

Altmark Incident

The Altmark Incident was a naval skirmish of World War II between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany, which happened on 16 February 1940. It took place in what were, at that time, neutral Norwegian waters...

, and on the relation between the government-in-exile

Cabinet Nygaardsvold

Nygaardsvold's Cabinet was appointed on 20 March 1935, the second Labour cabinet in Norway. It closed the brought to an end the non-socialist, minority Governments that had been dominating politics since the introduction of the parliamentary system in 1884, and replaced it with stable, Labour...

and the resistance movement. He published the two volume series Norsk utenrikstjeneste from 1955 to 1959. From 1961 he served as Head of the Public Record Office .