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'''Xu''' can be a
pinyin transliteration of one of several
Chinese surnames:
#徐 (pinyin Xú, also spelled
Hsu or Tsui or Eu)
#許 (
Traditional Chinese traditional) or 许 (
Simplified Chinese simplified), (pinyin Xǔ, also spelled Hui or Hii)
In this context it is pronounced somewhat like ''Shoo'' or simply ''Shh''.
=Famous people surnamed 徐:
=
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Xu Beihong, painter
*
Xu Bing, artist
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Xu Huang, character from ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms''
*
Xu Jun, chess player
*
Xu Sheng, 3rd century general
*
Xu Shichang, President of
Republic of China (
Beiyang government)
*
Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
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Xu Wei, Ming dynasty painter
*
Xu Xiake, writer
*
Xu Xiangqian,
Communist Party of China Chinese Communist military leader
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Xu Zhimo, author
*
Xu, Zhenya, Well-known Lingustist, Computer Scientist, and Educator.
*
Tsui Hark, film director
*
Vivian Hsu, actress
*
Philip Jaisohn, first Korean-American citizen
*
Xu Jianke, Scientist
=Famous people surnamed 許/许:
=
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Xu Chu, Wei general
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Xu Dishan, author
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Xu Shen, Han dynasty dictionary compiler
*
Evonne Hsu, singer
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Hsu Hsin-liang, Taiwanese politician
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Samuel Hui, musician
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Michael Hui, filmmaker
=Non-Chinese meanings
=
*Xu is a minor currency of
Vietnam. 100 xu = 1
Dong (currency) dong.
*Xu is the creator god of the
Bushmen of
Africa.
*Xu is a minor character in
Final Fantasy VIII.
*"xu" is the symbol of the
X unit.
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'''XU''' was the largest and most important intelligence organisation in occupied
Norway during
WWII. Most of the work of XU was kept secret until
1988.
XU was established in July
1940 by
Arvid Storsveen, and was originally based on recruiting students from the
University of Oslo. The group connected to professionals around Norway, within railroads, police and so on, and collected maps and photos of German fortifications and forces.
After a period of cooperation with
Milorg, XU worked separately from the rest of the
Norwegian resistance movement from the Autumn of
1941. This step was taken to increase the security.
Having established a network over the entire southern Norway,
Gestapo became aware of XU in the Spring of
1942. Several members of the leadership in
Oslo, including Storsveen, fled to neutral
Sweden in July 1942, and led the organisation from abroad. They still made occasional trips to occupied territory, and Storsveen was killed in a Gestapo operation in Oslo in April of
1943. He did not reveal who he was, and XU continued its work under the leadership of
Øistein Strømnæs and
Anne-Sofie Østvedt.
Strømnæs continued leading XU from occupied Oslo for the rest of the war. Apart from supplying the allied forces with very detailed data about the state of German forces in Norway, XU also had connections within Nazi Germany. Several of their members were couriers for MI5 agent
Paul Rosbaud who had vital information regarding German nuclear research.
By the end of the war XU had some 1,500 agents all over Norway and had developed a sophisticated courier system to UK through neutral Sweden. The amount of information could amount to some 500 A4 pages supplied every day. The amount of accurate intelligence meant that the allied forces had detailed information about most everything the German forces in Norway did and possessed. This information proved vital in bombing raids of strategic importance, and would have been invaluable if an invasion had been necessary.
Category:World War II resistance movements
Category:History of Norway
Category:World War II espionage
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