Egil Holst Torkildsen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Egil Holst Torkildsen

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1916

Date of Death: 17-Jul-1979

Profession: editor

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Egil Holst Torkildsen

  • Egil Holst Torkildsen (21 July 1916 – 17 July 1979) was a Norwegian national socialist editor and activist.A strong proponent of pan-German national socialism, he was a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (NNSAP) during the 1930s, until reluctantly joining Nasjonal Samling (NS) in 1940, some months after the NNSAP was dissolved.
  • He was editor of Norsk Folkeblad in 1939–40, and a staff member of Hirden until he was hired as editor of Germaneren, the paper of Germanske SS Norge (GSSN) in 1942.
  • Along with the leader of GSSN, Leif Schøren, Torkildsen was set aside by NS in January 1945 and sent to Germany after attempts of a pro-German coup against Vidkun Quisling and NS.
  • He was enrolled in the Waffen-SS during the final stage of the war.
  • Arriving in Berlin on 2 April, he fled on 16 April, and reached Denmark fourteen days later.Torkildsen was sentenced to five years imprisonment for treason after the war.
  • As a wanted traitor, Torkildsen fled from Norway in 1947 along with four other Norwegian Nazis on the sailboat Mi Casa, and arrived in A Coruña, Spain.
  • From Spain he travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he became chairman of a local association of Norwegian Nazis.
  • In 1956 Torkildsen contacted Norwegian authorities asking to return to Norway.
  • He died in 1979 and is buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo.

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