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.