Sverre Henschien: Leader of the Førerguard (1944-1945)

Born 29 July 1897 in Levanger, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Sverre Henschien was the Leader of the Førerguard from 1944 to 1945.

Sophus Kahrs: Squad Leader and Company Commander at Leningrad and Leader of the Førerguard (1945)

In 1934, Kahrs joined the Nasjonal Samling. He also joined Hirden, and from 1936 was a member of NS Kamporganisaison. Fought on the Norwegian side when Norway was attacked by Germany from 9 April 1940. During the Second World War he became a lieutenant, and for a while acting battalion commander in the Norwegian ski fighter battalion (1944) which participated on the German side. Before this, he was sent to the Eastern Front as a squad leader and company commander at Leningrad, in the Norwegian Legion. For his efforts in 44 (Karel) he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class. At the end of the war, Kahrs was the leader of the Førerguard, Vidkun Quisling's bodyguard.

In the national fraud settlement, Kahrs was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. On 3 July 1947, he escaped, together with three others, from Espeland prison camp. He took the boat "Solbris" to Argentina, arriving on 23 July 1948, where he lived the rest of his life. Kahrs died in 1986.

Roy Rosland: Oberscharführer

Rosland served his military service in Garden in 1935. In the 1930s, Rosland was a member of the right-wing Norwegian National Socialist Workers' Party (NNSAP), where he met, among other things, the adventurer, National Socialist and later front fighter Per Imerslund. On behalf of the NNSAP, he signed a recommendation to the German authorities for the anti-Semite and writer Alf Maria Amble. Amble got a job at the foreign department of the German Propaganda Ministry. Rosland also served in NS Arbeidsjeneste. He was an early member of Hirden, and was a member of the Nasjonal Samling from 1933 to 1937 when he left the party after the dispute between Quisling and Hjort. He was an active member of the Akershushirden til Hjort and participated, among other things, in the Battle of Torvslaget at Gjøvik on 21 May 1936. Later he became a member of the Spanish Foreign Legion and fought under Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

In the first phase of the winter war, Rosland had to amputate several toes after frostbite in the field. As a front-line fighter on the Eastern Front, he served as oberscharführer in regiment Germania in the 5th SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking".

After th war

Rosland was sentenced to four years in prison in the national betrayal settlement. After completing his sentence, he established himself as a farmer in Vest-Bamble. Here, in the late 1970s, he erected a three-metre-high memorial for Norwegian front-line fighters and sisters who fell on the German side during the Second World War.

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1941

• January 1941: Heinrich Himmler's cultural trip to NS Norway

Einar Syvertsen: Editor of NS Månedshefte (1941-1945)

In his youth, Syversten was involved in scouting and the youth movement. As a 22-year-old, he came to Gjøvik in 1918, where he made a living as an accountant. In 1928 he started selling paper and photographic equipment. In Mjøsbyen, Syvertsen was married to photographer Marie Haug (1887-1980).

Syvertsen was strongly anti-socialist and in the 1920s became a board member of the local Frisinnede Venstre. From 1924 to 1933, he was secretary of the Gjøvik Borgerparti, an electoral coalition for liberal liberals and conservatives. However, Syvertsen himself claimed that he reacted to the fact that the party members' self-interests were more important than the local community and the fatherland, and left the Citizens Party's general meeting in April 1933 in anger.

Nasjonal Samling

Later that year he joined an informally organized NS team in Gjøvik, and topped the party's list at the general election in 1933. When the party entered a list at the municipal election in 1934, he and three others from Nasjonal Samling entered the city council. At this time, Syvertsen became chairman of the party team in Gjøvik and, according to Willy Klevenberg and Bjørn Østring, among others, acted almost as a father figure for the young NS activists in the town. Østring was employed in Syvertsen's shop.

Syvertsen was a member of the National Socialist Council before the war and participated, among other things, in the much-discussed council meeting on 7 April 1940. When the Employment Service was established, in the autumn of 1940 he was encouraged to apply for a position there. The area of activity was the school department, where he received the rank of county manager. Syvertsen and his wife sold their businesses in Gjøvik and moved to Oslo. From 1941 to 1945 Syvertsen was editor of NS Månedshefte, where he also wrote a number of articles. The son Einar Haug Syvertsen was editor of the picture magazine Munin.

On 6 November 1948, Syvertsen was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treason. Later he wrote a number of articles in which he tried to present a different view than the established one on the history of the occupation. He died in 1973.

Hans S. Jacobsen: Founder and Editor of the National Socialist journal Ragnarok

(February 10, 1901 - November 19, 1980)

Background and studies

Jacobsen was trained as a social economist and was a research fellow at the Institut für Weltwissenschaft und Seeverkehr at the University of Kiel in the period 1922–1925. In the period 1925–1927 he was a scholar in the USA.

Back in Germany in 1927, he became acquainted with Norwegian students, such as the jurist Albert Wiesener and the later social scientist Arvid Brodersen. These acquaintances made Jacobsen orientate himself in the direction of pan-Germanism. Brodersen in particular gave Jacobsen the intellectual basis for his racial thinking. During his time in Germany, he experienced the suffering and distress after the Treaty of Versailles close to his life, and tied him emotionally strongly to Germany.

He began his stay in the USA by working in the Ford factory in Detroit, where he got to experience the perspective of the workers from below. These experiences made him a sharp critic of unfettered liberal capitalism.

In the period leading up to the war, he worked as a ship broker and journalist. Among other things, he founded and edited the National Socialist journal Ragnarok.

National Socialist involvement in the pre-war period

In Norway, Jacobsen early became a prominent figure in the left-wing Quisling-critical National Socialist milieu, where emphasis was placed on the last link in National Socialism, with community solutions, planned economy, high tax pressure for high incomes, publicly owned institutions and social systems. This was necessary to get society out of the social distress that private capital's greed and politicians had gotten society into. This environment was not internationally oriented, the solutions had to be found on a national level, but Jacobsen, like so many in this environment, was also strong characterized by pan-Germanic and Völkisch thinking.

Through the journal Ragnarok, Jacobsen measured much of this criticism and released it to many others in the environment, including Stein Barth-Heyerdahl, Per Imerslund, Geirr Tveitt, Tor Strand, Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn, Albert Wiesener and eventually also Walter Fyrst. Jacobsen was strongly skeptical of the leadership principle, as power should go from the bottom up, from the campaigners who were constantly hardened in battle, and to leaders who are also actively participating in the battle and know it. Only in this way would the leaders have legitimacy.

The Ragnarok Circle and the SS

Jacobsen voiced his concern in a conversation with Heinrich Himmler during the annual conference of the Nordische Gesellschaft in 1937. When it gradually dawned on the Norwegians that Hauer and his neo-pagans could no longer function as an efficient ally, their focus gravitated more towards Himmler and his organization, especially after the German occupation of Norway.

In the summer of 1940 Jacobsen traveled to Germany on behalf of the Ragnarok Circle and other prominent pro-German, anti-Quisling Norwegians who had received disturbing reports indicating that Hitler had decided to opt for a government led by Quisling. In Berlin he was received by Heinrich Himmler himself. Himmler was no supporter of Quisling, but was compelled to inform Jacobsen that Hitler's decision was final. However, later that year he wrote to Jacobsen, assuring him the Ragnarok Circle would soon be given the opportunity to fight for their ideas within the framework of the ss, since it had been decided to establish a local equivalent to the Allgemeine-SS in Norway – Norges SS, later renamed Germanske SS Norge (GSSN).

According to Jacobsen's view, the ss was an exponent of 'aristocratic socialism', and drew together the supreme elite of committed idealists within the Germanic countries. It 'struggled for full equality and against any degrading or suppression of the racially kindred Norwegian people', as he puts it. Consequently, the GSSN, and the SS in general, seemed to strive for exactly the same goals as the Ragnarok Circle, and could therefore in the latter's view be of use in their oppositional struggle against Quisling and Terboven. It is thus no wonder that they grabbed at the sacrifice made by Himmler. Jacobsen became editor of Germaneren, the house organ of the gssn, and Per Imerslund became one of its most prominent contributors.

Nasjonal Samling

When Norway was occupied by Germany in 1940, Jacobsen, like a number of others in his circle who had previously been members, rejoined the Nasjonal Samling. He continued to publish the NS-critical Ragnarok and was also linked to the Germanic SS Norway, which also distinguished itself as a National Socialist and pan-Germanic to Nasjonal Samling.

After the war

In 1948 he was sentenced to eight years of forced labour. After the war, he resumed his writing and publishing activities. In 1966 he had the Quisling biography Quisling — Prophet without Honor translated by Ralph Hewins, which resulted in a much-publicized libel lawsuit.

Storting representative Sverre Løberg called Jacobsen a falsifier of history and Jacobsen responded with a libel lawsuit. The case went before the Oslo City Court in 1969 and had the appearance of being a rematch of the court settlement after the war. Løberg won the case, eventually also in the Supreme Court. In 1970, he complained about the case to the Council of Europe. He died in Oslo in 1980.

Per Imerslund: Oberscharführer, Revolutionary National Socialist and Front Soldier during WWII

NS's left side

Imerslund belonged to the left wing of the Norwegian National Socialists, linked to the Ragnarok group and strongly influenced by the so-called Völkisch movement in Germany. in this thinking, clan thinking and ethnic purity were central concepts. The movement perceived history as an eternal battle between ethnic groups and this battle had to be won if the Nordic people were not to perish. They saw Jews, Freemasons, Catholics and Communists as forces that destroyed the Germans and therefore proclaimed battle against them. Their rejection of Christianity led in Norway to them turning to the Norse gods. Per Imerslund was therefore characterized as a revolutionary National Socialist, among other things in the biography The Aryan Idol. Before and during the war, Imerslund was a strong Quisling opponent.

Germany

His father Thorleif was originally from Elverum and his mother Maria from Kristiania. The father was by this time a successful businessman. He ran the business Imerslund & Co, which still exists as a music business. Thorleif's father had contributed financially to the establishment. He eventually wanted to establish himself in Germany, which he saw as the land of opportunity, and even before the First World War he was on business trips to the Empire. establishments. But in March 1920, while they still had money, the family - Per had had his sister Eva in 1914 - moved to Germany, and his son Per experienced the hardship and misery in the wake of the lost war. This stood in contrast to the material security he himself experienced.

In 1923, his father went bankrupt. The marriage continued mainly as a pro forma marriage where both spouses took on casual male lovers without making any effort to hide this. Per ended up at the Königliche Paul-Gerhardt-Schule in Lübben in the Spreewald southeast of Berlin, a private school with Prussian discipline. The family borrowed an estate from a former colleague of the father, where they lived until 1926. Per moved after a year to a boarding school in Lübben.

The young Imerslund had problems conforming to the school's discipline requirements. But here he got his first introductions to Völkisch thinking and he eventually distinguished himself with his sporting skills and outdoor life. But his shyness and insecurity made close friendships difficult. The summer holidays were spent in Norway, and he especially thrived in his grandfather's house in Elverum. When he and Eva returned from a trip to Norway in the autumn of 1926, they were told that they were to move to Mexico.

The stay in Mexico 1927-1928

Through a male lover, the father had gained access to half of his plantation not far from Colima on the southwest coast of Mexico. But it was an unhealthy and demanding, humid climate and great political unrest in the area.

The young Imerslund here began a sexual relationship with the thirteen-year-old tutor, the German Hans-Dietrich Disselhoff, and it was an additional burden for him when he knew that Disselhoff also had a sexual relationship with his mother. He rightly assumed that Disselhoff also had a relationship with his father.

Disselhoff had international experience and National Socialist roots. He had fought in the Freikorps Löwenfeld, one of the Freikorps of former soldiers of the German Imperial Navy.

Street battles with the SA in Berlin 1932–1933

Imerslund now returned to Berlin, where he was encouraged to tell about these through a newspaper article, and this forms the basis for the novel Hestene staad salet.

But he oriented himself more towards political activism and identified with the National Socialists. He allowed himself to be recruited into the actionist SA departments and lived for periods at homes for SA troops and hung out in so-called Sturm premises for SA men.

The SA wing represented the revolutionary, worker-oriented, anti-capitalist thinking within German National Socialism. There was widespread skepticism towards Hitler and other central National Socialists because of their contacts in big capital, among the industrial lords and the old power structures. His environment and thinking were characterized by anarchist disdain for politicians. revolutionary, worker-oriented, anti-capitalist thinking Thus the National Socialist takeover of power in 1933 did not become the fundamental social change the SA milieu wanted. (The showdown between the wings of the NSDAP came to a final climax when the SA wing was eliminated during the so-called "Night of the Long Knives" on 30 June 1934, when, among other things, the SA leader Ernst Röhm was murdered.

Norway 1934–1937

He returned to Oslo in the spring of 1934 and joined Eugen Nielsen's Norwegian National Socialist Workers' Party (NNSAP) with, among others, his old friend Stein Barth-Heyerdahl. The party had absorbed parts of the left-wing Völkisch thinking he knew from Germany, where Judea (i.e. Jews, Communists and Freemasons; Rome (Catholics, Jesuits and Christians in general) and Tibet (theosophists, anthroposophists and other Eastern-inspired thoughts) were the forces that had to be fought if Germanic man was not to perish.

Party days in Nuremberg 1935

Imerslund went to Germany and visited the massive party days of the NSDAP in Nuremberg 10-16. September 1935. The theme for this National Party Day was National Party Day for Freedom and the new German racial laws were introduced here. During these party days, Imerslund met many international like-minded people, including representatives of the British Union of Fascists, the Italian fascist movement and the Finnish Fatherland movement. But in particular the founder of the Romanian Iron Guard, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, made a strong impression.

Here he also met Hans S. Jacobsen, a Norwegian social economist and shipbroker who became an important ideological factor for him. Jacobsen published the magazine Ragnarok, and both the magazine and Jacobsen as a person became a mouthpiece and rallying point for this group.

National Socialist Left Opposition

The circle with Per Imerslund consisted, among others, of Stein Barth-Heyerdahl, Hans S. Jacobsen, Geirr Tveitt, Tor Strand and Otto Sverdrup Engelschiøn and Albert Wiesener. This was in strong opposition to Quisling and Nasjonal Samling, which they saw as a spineless, watered-down version of a national plan that was far too influenced by Christian thought. Just that they used, for example, the priest and freemason Kjeld Stub as one of their most used speakers was disqualifying in itself. In this sense, the mini-party Nasjonal Samling was more or less like the other parties and did not represent any real alternative.

Imerslund and his friends put so much emphasis on the last part of their National Socialism. Here, community solutions, planned economy, often high tax pressure, publicly owned institutions and social systems were important to get society out of the social distress that the greed of private capital and spineless politicians had gotten the country into. This thinking was strongly skeptical of the whole driving principle, when power should go from the bottom up, from the campaigners who were constantly hardened in battle and to leaders who are also actively participating in the battle and knew it. Only in this way could the leaders gain legitimacy. And the fight was against the aforementioned destructive forces and this socialism was thus national and neo-pagan and not part of an international ideology.

The distance to Quisling and his distant, quasi-Christian, abstract thinking was therefore very great and was considered by this group to be completely without perspective. The contempt for Quisling and NS became even more evident during the occupation when this circle also saw Quisling as an errand boy for the German occupiers who, in the group's opinion, had nothing to do here. The execution of Gunnar Eilifsen was perceived as the obvious revelation of the regime.

Labor service 1936

Imerslund was a distinctly action-oriented activist, and did not thrive with talking polemicists. Politics was to act, and Norway as a country was to be built. He therefore became one of the driving forces behind the Labor Service, organized primarily by Imerslund, Tor Strand and advertising and film man Walter Fyrst. The purpose was not primarily to remedy unemployment, but idealistically: to promote a spirit of service for the nation among young people. This Employment Service was inspired by the German National Employment Service and formed a prelude to the compulsory NS Arbeidstjeneste (AT) which the National Socialists later introduced during the German occupation. The employment service had to literally clear new ground for new small farms. They broke up stumps, drained, removed stone and built a road, heavy physical work in and with the Norwegian nature. With morning revelje at 06.00, political reading aloud before breakfast, hard work and strict discipline, the hopefuls were to be hardened. Political opponents tried to ridicule the measure, pointing out that the cultivation of toil and masculine power had clear homoerotic undertones.

The first work camp under the auspices of the Employment Service was in Stor-Elvdal in the summer of 1936. Imerslund had very successfully led and organized the recruitment from central Norway and threw himself into the practical tasks with great energy. But he was often knocked out by bouts of malaria, with accompanying high fever and poor general condition. Equally, he was a central figure in the work service, admired as a prophet by the others based on his colorful background and his entire physical appearance.

But Imerslund and the Quisling-critical wing had only limited success in distancing this measure from the Nasjonal Samling. They stood behind Johan B. Hjort's oppositional line within NS, and greatly appreciated Hjort's visit to the camp in Stor-Elvdal. This was the first time Imerlund met Hjort. The labor service was not politically neutral with its idealization of the farmer and contempt for politicians, distant theorists and townspeople who were parasites, including many within NS. The colors of the labor service were red and black: blood and earth; race and nature merged.

At this time, Imerslund had published Das Land Noruega in Germany, and worked on the Norwegian translation Horses stand saddle to Gyldendal. At the same time as he had drama series on NRK, it was clear that it was in the Labor Service practical action that he felt at home, more than as an author and writer.

The Spanish Civil War 1937

For the action-oriented Imerslund, the Spanish Civil War was an arena for political action. In addition, he was to write articles for the newspaper Tidens Tegn and delivered a number of articles. But his war effort in the spring of 1937 was never easy or glamorous. Already on his way to Spain, passing through Portugal, he was arrested as a suspicious foreigner and had to spend a day in a very overcrowded, miserable cell. He got help from the Norwegian consulate and got on.

When he finally arrived in Spain it was difficult to find a suitable fighting unit. After all, he had no formal military background and the Spanish Foreign Legion were pure suicide squads. After much back and forth, he ended up in the Falangist militia. When he finally got to the front, they were lying on some scorched heights on the Cordoba front, exchanging fire with the socialists a few hundred meters away. They had little water and food, it was very hot and Imerslund was sick with malaria. In addition, he had to confess in a letter to his friend Disselhoff that he experienced instead the meaninglessness of the war. This also came out in his sometimes very good articles from this time. Disappointed, Imerslund also had to note that the clock was turning back in Spain after Francisco Franco's victory and that it was not a new, radical, revolutionary Spain that won.

But Imerslund also felt matured and strengthened by the fact that he had been in combat and in mortal danger at the front. Weakened by malaria, he was withdrawn from combat and returned to Oslo that summer.

Norway, marriage, Mexico 1937–1940

In the years leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War, he was busy with many of the previous activities, summer service, writing and the usual, perhaps a little restless, travel for the rest of the year. He visited both Germany, Sweden and Mexico. In Germany, in 1937 he participated in the annual seminar for Nordic writers in Travemünde, among others together with Mikkjel Fønhus whom Imerslund had suggested as a participant. It was not uncontroversial in Norway to participate in such events in Germany.

After the split of Nasjonal Samling in 1936, the circle around Ragnarok also received an influx of new, disappointing former NS members, led by Johan B. Hjort. When Walter Fürst arranged a meeting room in the center of Oslo for right-wing radical Nasjonal Samling opponents, Imerslund also got a more permanent place of residence in the city. Much of the political energy was spent conspiring against the Nasjonal Samling and trying to establish an alternative.

Imerslund always attracted great attention among women, who quickly flocked to him. His apparently cool distance and interest, and the lack of gossipy stories surrounding this great man seem to have led to an even greater interest. Mysterious, beautiful, and full of exotic experiences, but also neat and tidy. He himself probably perceived his lack of interest as a problem, especially when his friends constantly pointed out his great potential. But when his friend Hans-Dietrich Disselhoff, with whom he had always been in correspondence, married in 1936 and a little later had a daughter, he realized that he should follow his friend's example. Per accepted the general condemnation of homosexuality in his environment and wanted to fight it. He himself believed that his homosexuality had been inflicted on him through Disselhoff's seduction.

Imerslund therefore married Liv Asserson, the sister of a Norwegian opera singer in Germany, with whom he first began a relationship, on 26 March 1938 in a neo-pagan ceremony. But he allegedly fell head over heels for his 21-year-old sister Liv when he met her. Imerslund himself was 26 years old. Presumably the older sister had seen through him and he sought comfort in the nearest place he could find. The practical and down-to-earth Life probably suited Per better than the artistic opera singer. The Byllups trip was a round trip to, among other places, Denmark, Spain and Mexico. There is reason to believe that Liv here became aware that she was part of the man's heterosexualization project, but she chose to stay with him as long as he lived. They later had two children together. The youngest was born after his father's death.

But when war breaks out, and especially the winter war between the Soviet Union and Finland, Imerslund is ready for new efforts.

The Second World War

The environment around Imerslund reacted very negatively to Hitler and Stalin's friendship pact and the blitzkrieg against Poland seven days later. Such an attack on another nation was for them a violation of National Socialism's basic idea of individual people's self-determination. A National Socialist country is by definition not imperialist, according to their thinking. Such expansionism was carried out by the fascists, which in this group's opinion was the last convulsion of the bourgeoisie. Both of these events were perceived as cynical great power politics. The friendship pact also meant a farewell to the racial solidarity attitudes. It got worse when it dawned on everyone that the friendship pact was also a green light for the Soviet Union to attack Finland.

The winter war between Finland and the Soviet Union became a calling for the actionist Imerslund. This was David's fight against Goliath, and of course he was on David's side. The Finns' initial successes reinforced this perception. His environment experienced in this matter that here they were in line with the majority of both Norwegian and international society. Over the winter, the environment noted somewhat indignantly that it had clearly been easier to mobilize for war efforts for the Bolsheviks in Spain than against them in Finland. When he signed up for military service, he was immediately followed by others from the environment. They would be no worse than Imerslund, who had now become an idol and a myth in the community.

On 23 February 1940 he traveled to Finland. On his departure, Walter Fürst gives him a lark of soil from the Norwegian Labor Service's new quarry field. As the Romanian Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he should have the soil of his fatherland close to his heart.

In order to relieve the Finnish forces that were heavily pressed on the Karelian peninsula, the regular Finnish forces at Salla in northern Finland were to be pulled south and replaced by the volunteer, international forces. After freezing training in the northern Finnish city of Kemi, with temperatures down to minus 40, they were sent to the front in March. But by the time they arrived, the war was over. Disappointed and bitter about Finland's humiliating armistice agreement and without having made any effort himself, he and the others had to go home. On 1 April, Imerslund was dismissed and returned home on 4 April, five days before the German invasion.

With the Waffen-SS at war

The unemployed Imerslund allowed himself to be persuaded to join a management course in the Labor Service in the winter of 1940–41, but did not find himself comfortable in what he perceived as an underuse of the Nasjonal Samling. Vidkun Quisling's appeal in January 1941 to register for war service made no impression, rather Imerslund and his circle were very skeptical of German imperialism.

But with Operation Barbarossa, the cards were dealt again. Germany's friendship with the Soviet Union was over and Norway was also called to fight against the Bolsheviks in the east. Imerslund reported for service immediately under the promise to fight under the Norwegian flag and command against communism and in solidarity with Finland during the Finnish Continuation War. After being bombed by Soviet aircraft, Finnish forces crossed the border on 25 June in Karelia to retake the areas Finland had lost after the Winter War.

Together with an estimated 1,000 other Norwegians, he was sent to Operation Barbarossa and served in the Waffen-SS, 5th SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking" as part of Army Group South in Ukraine, all the way to Dnepropetrovsk. Imerslund served as a regular private, although with his background he could have received a more qualified service.

The difficult conditions on the Eastern Front led to his being hospitalized in Wrocław with dysentery after four months of service in October 1941. Imerslund later published very little about his experiences during this time.

At this time he also learned that Liv was pregnant. The son Ole was born in December 1941, while he himself was in hospital. He was on sick leave for three months after the campaign in Ukraine. Everything suggests that Imerslund was psychologically damaged after the horrors at the front in Ukraine. After being released from the hospital in Breslau, his skepticism and contempt for the German warfare was even greater. He was happy when influential acquaintances got him transferred to serve in Finland, where he had always wanted to go. Imerslund was primarily at the front in Salla in North Karelia as a Kriegsberichter with the rank of oberscharführer, which meant that as a soldier he also had to write articles for the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps. Here, Imerslund covered the Finnish sabotage activities behind the Russian lines.

On one such mission he was hit in the shoulder by a Russian dumdum shot, i.e. bullets that expand and tear open when they hit the body. His shoulder and upper arm were badly injured and he was admitted to the field hospital in Kemi in the middle of the Gulf of Bothnia, where he had been two years earlier. The doctor wanted to amputate his left arm, but he refused them to do this. Imerslund was awarded the Iron Cross, second class, for bravery in the field, and was told that he could expect promotion. Severely injured, he traveled home to Norway and was admitted to Aker Hospital. He arrived here in May 1942, greatly weakened by his injuries and a high fever. But the Austrian surgeon was able to patch him up, although he had to endure great pain and walk with a brace that kept his upper arm in a horizontal position from the shoulder for 15 months.

War traumatized and fight against Quisling

In addition to all the friends who came to visit Imerslund sick, Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs visited him and apologized for his role as prosecutor in the Trotsky case. Riisnæs was known as one of the front fighters' best friends, and despite his position, he shared Imerslund's and his circle's skepticism towards Vidkun Quisling and Nasjonal Samling. Riisnæs's work to establish the pan-Germanic Germanske-SS Norge can be seen as a measure to acquire a position based on environments to which Imerslund belonged. This was also an organization that Imerslund and several of his friends joined, until it too was taken over by Nasjonal Samling and partly militarized by Jonas Lie beyond 1942 and affected by the Eilifsen case.

While he was in hospital, Imerslund resumed his life as a writer. He wrote about parts of his frontline experiences and what it was like to come home. But it proved difficult to get this published, as the press was controlled by what Per and his entourage called "Homesitters". But in the Germanic SS Norway's organ Germaneren, Imerslund let go.

Germaneren, together with Ragnarok, became the most important mouthpieces for the Quisling- and NS-critical wing of Norwegian National Socialism. Here, Imerslund published, among other things, in the article "Saboteurs i egne rekker" a very strong attack on what he calls "the artificial Jews", i.e. the Freemasons in the Nasjonal Samling. decent National Socialists”.

At this time, Imerslund was strongly influenced by war experiences and what he experienced as a betrayal from many sides. He stuck to his old friends and other former front-line fighters. After being discharged from Aker hospital, he was transferred to the Ragnar Berg Convalescent Home at Voksenkollen for convalescence. Beyond the autumn of 1942, he continued his writing activities from here with constant new attacks against the establishment and an idyllization of the Norwegian farmer.

The same autumn, he and Liv bought a farm near Haglebu in Eggedal with money borrowed from Liv's mother. However, Imerslund was mostly there on short and hectic visits. He got a room in Grav gård in Bærum, which was owned by one of his friends. Here, at the request of Hans S. Jacobsen, he edited a collection of articles. A number of other articles he wrote at this time are strongly marked by the fact that he was traumatized by war and possibly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. But in his own environment he was increasingly perceived as a visionary seer, and became the object of a certain cult of personality.

Plan to kidnap Quisling

Imerslund and his environment were shocked by the Eilifsen case, where police deputy Gunnar Eilifsen was executed on 16 August 1943 after standing behind five of his subordinates who had refused to arrest three young girls who did not report to the Labor Service. The environment perceived Quisling as an errand boy for Josef Terboven. Imerslund invited his friends to the storehouse on the farm in Eggedal and at the turn of September/October there was a conspiracy about an action against Vidkun Quisling. The plan was to kidnap him from the "leader's residence" Gimle on Bygdøy. The group had been made aware that there was a rather inadequate guard. This was to come after a period of sabotage and guerrilla activity by resistance cells with former front-line fighters and other trusted National Socialists against an increasingly demoralized occupying power as the war went from bad to worse. The removal of Quisling was to be the signal to all groups of the open armed final showdown. The aim was to create a state ruled from the bottom up by people hardened by the struggle, in accordance with SA thinking.

With Imerslund as the instigator, the circle planned to join the resistance movement. As a National Socialist county commissioner in Østfold, Hans S. Jacobsen had first-hand experience of how the regime worked, including what he perceived as corrupt, self-enriching elements. The main targets were Vidkun Quisling himself, the high degree Freemason and Minister of Finance Frederik Prytz and Minister of Culture and Secretary General Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang. They were all seen as having enriched themselves the most by being in power, while the front fighters were let down both morally and materially.

Imerslund also had contacts within the resistance movement. In particular, these were those who before the war had been involved in the earliest phases of the labor service, the Nasjonal Samling and the Trotsky action, and who had become resistance fighters after the events of the autumn of 1940. Furthermore, several sources have claimed that since the autumn of 1940, Imerslund played a double game by notifying resistance fighters in danger, including Otto Engelschiøn, as well as supplying Norwegian intelligence with information about the German presence in Norway. Imerslund despised what he perceived as German arrogance even more after the war experiences and German abuses also against Norway. He gave his Iron Cross to his dog.

Death

At the end of October, Imerslund went to the city, but it was unclear on what errands. It is also not known what he actually did, but it is claimed that he met former frontline fighters in Oslo, Hamar, Lillehammer, Gjøvik, Moss, Porsgrunn, Grimstad and other places. On 4 December, he slipped on ice on the stairs of the then Eastern Railway Station in Oslo and fell on his injured left shoulder. He was again admitted to Aker hospital and treated by the same doctor as last time. The fracture in the upper arm was opened, the wound became infected and Imerslund's malaria-infected body had too poor an immune system to cope with this. Once again, he allegedly refused amputation. Liv was notified, but was pregnant again and could no longer bear "to witness his suffering".

With the malaria parasites in his body, the infection turned into blood poisoning, and the 31-year-old Per Imerslund died in Aker hospital on 7 December 1943.

Despite the fact that the central circles in Nasjonal Samling wanted to pass over Imerslund's death in silence, Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs attended the funeral in Vestre gravlund new crematorium.

Ragnarok came in space Christmas with a special issue dedicated to Imerslund, where all the friends had their tribute items. Furthermore, his death was given great attention in the Germaneren and Das Schwarze Korps. In addition, a number of soldiers had given references to the SS field post.

Reliable sources claim that Per Imerslund continued to connect frustrated front-line fighters with the resistance movement, even on his deathbed.