Arnfinn Moland

Arnfinn Moland (born 25 August 1951) is a Norwegian historian.

He was born in Kvinesdal Municipality. He finished his secondary education in Flekkefjord in 1970, served in His Majesty the King's Guard from 1973 to 1974, and graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.philol. degree in 1977. His master's thesis was Prissubsider eller støtte? Striden om melkeparagrafen 1972. From 1977 to 1978 he took a pedagogical education. He had 14.34 metres in the triple jump, achieved in July 1978 at Stovnerbanen in Oslo.

Moland was hired as a researcher by Norway's Resistance Museum in 1978. From 1993 to 1997 he worked for the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He was the director of Norway's Resistance Museum from 1995, from 1998 with the title of associate professor. This book has been described as a contrast to Egil Ulateig's book Med rett til å drepe.

He also contributed to film. He was a screenwriter and co-director of the film Rapport fra "Nr. 24" about Gunnar Sønsteby.

Moland has not been entirely uncontroversial as a historian. In 2000 he accused Norwegian newspapers of printing untrue stories about the Norwegian resistance movement, because "relatives of Nasjonal Samling sympathizers" sat as editors in these newspapers. The statement was sharply criticized by editors such as Harald Stanghelle, Steinar Hansson and Gudleiv Forr.