Ørnulf Myklestad grew up in Kristiania/Oslo and, according to himself, developed a strong interest in political and cultural issues from the age of 10, allegedly as a result of a visit to the Norwegian Folk Museum. Reading Erich Ludendorff's revelation of Freemasonry must also have made a strong impression on him, leading him to join the Fäderneslandslaget at a very young age.
Nasjonal Samling
Ørnulf Myklestad became active in NS (Nasjonal Samling) from the autumn of 1933 when he was a student at Fagerborg gymnasium on Oslo's west side. Between 1934 and 1936 he was chairman of the NS Gymnasiastlag in Oslo and in 1936 he attended the Arbeidstjenesten's summer camp in Stor-Elvdal, where, among other things, he made acquaintances with Per Imerslund and other radical National Socialists.
By all accounts, he was considered an ideological resource in NS, because in 1936 the party sent him for half a year to the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin for ideological training. The German National Socialist authorities also took an interest in the young guy. During his stay in Berlin, he was enlisted as an agent for the anti-communist propaganda organization Anticomintern. He was then sent on assignments to Moscow, Leningrad and Minsk "to learn both the Jewish question and Marxism in practice". In 1937 he joined Hirden and was accepted into NS's Kamporganisaison. Until the summer of 1938, he worked as secretary of NSUF, the party's youth department.
On 17 May 1938, Myklestad founded the organization Norsk Front, whose aim was to fight freemasonry. Outwardly, the organization appeared to be independent, but in fact it had been established on the initiative of Quisling and was made up of loyal NS people who reported directly to the party leader. According to the historian Ivo de Figueiredo, it was probably the Norwegian Front that seriously put the question of Freemasonry on NS's agenda. As a representative of this small organization, where he was both chairman and organizing secretary, Myklestad gave eight lectures, seven in Oslo and one in Bergen, about the world conspiracy of the Jewish Freemasons. The lectures gathered a full house. The organization also spread and printed anti-masonic propaganda and in the autumn of 1938 it created newspaper headlines by reporting it to the police The Norwegian Freemasonry keeps human skeletons in the Stamhuset in Oslo.
Anti-Freemasonry and Zionism
Myklestad's anti-Masonic activism continued into the occupation period. When NS held an open exhibition in the Norwegian Masonic Lodge's Headquarters in Oslo on 1 December 1940, Myklestad gave a speech that clarifies his understanding of reality: "Freemasonry in its symbolic structure is thoroughly Jewish, and its true purpose is solely to be an obedient instrument of international Jewry, to realize its demonic plan: the Zionist world domination." In 1941 he also gave a lecture which, according to the NS organ Fritt Folk, was "a strong showdown with Jewish capitalism and Marxist rule in our country". The speaker claimed that the Jews hid behind everything, but that in Norway it was primarily about the Freemasons, "the artificial Jews". However, Myklestad pointed out the importance of distinguishing between the individual Freemason, who could be unsuspecting, and Freemasonry itself, which was a "hotbed for Jewish politics".
During the occupation, Myklestad was assigned a number of important tasks and positions. In the autumn of 1940, he was promoted to circuit leader for NS in Asker and Bærum and then to County Propaganda Leader for Greater Oslo, a post he retained until September 1942. During his time as propaganda leader, he is said to have taken responsibility for the confiscation of radio sets for everyone outside NS and took the initiative to a number of measures that had the character of "black propaganda", such as the creation of fake radio stations, the spread of fake resistance newspapers. The latter presumably in agreement with or at the behest of the German Sipo/SD. In 1941 he also urged the German occupation authorities to take action against the Christian religious community Jehovah's Witnesses in Norway.
In the early summer of 1940, Myklestad published two books through the Norwegian Front. These were the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a publication of Martin Luther's writing The Chosen People. About the Jews and their lies.
From 1942 to 1944, Myklestad was appointed as commissar leader of Asker and Bærum Budstikke, interrupted by front-line service at the Narva front from the spring of 1943 to in the summer of 1944. The book received a lot of advertising space in Fritt Folk and was sold through NS's head office in Oslo. Myklestad was probably also involved when NS's press and propaganda department in 1942 published the booklet Frimureriets secretet at Herolden's publishing house. In this booklet, which was allegedly based on seized masonic archives from the country lodge in Oslo, the Protocols are quoted.
After Myklestad had returned home from his front-line service in the Waffen-SS, he established the Brage book publishing house in the autumn of 1944, and published the book Bak frimureriets kullisser. According to himself, the publishing house was financed through salaries from the Waffen-SS and Asker and Bærum Budstikke. In 1944, he republished the Protocols under the title Den Nye Verdenskeiser at his newly established Brage boklag in the autumn of 1944. With the exception of Myklestad signing the foreword under his full name, this is essentially identical to the Norwegian Front's edition from 1940. By focusing on the "artificial Jews" in the Masonic lodge, Myklestad was able to maintain his anti-Semitic and conspiracy-theoretic world view even so long after the deportation of the Norwegian Jews. Thus it was also relevant for him to publish an edition of the Protocols as late as 1944.
Ørnulf Myklestad died in 2004.
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