lördag 16 mars 2024

Aslaug Bjørnson: Circuit Leader of the NS Women's Organization in Sør-Gudbrandsdal (1940-1941) and Editorial Secretary in NSK's Heim og ætt

Aslaug Bjørnson joined NS on 26 September 1940. Membership lasted until the end of the occupation in 1945. Aslaug Bjørnson was the circuit leader of the National Women's Organization (NSK) in Sør-Gudbrandsdal from 1940 until she traveled to Oslo in the summer of 1941. 

From January 1 until the liberation, she was editorial secretary in NSK's organ "Heim og ætt" and also edited the women's pages in the journal "Norsk Arbeidsliv". In the newspaper Fritt Folk in October 30, 1940, Aslaug Bjørnson wrote, among other things, the propaganda article "Wake up" which glorified the Germans' attack on Norway on 9 April 1940. She concluded with a call to register in NS. In the summer of 1941, Aslaug Bjørnson traveled to Germany where she studied the German women's organization Reichsfrauenführung.

Aslaug Bjørnson was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment on November 8, 1947.

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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.