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About Alf Amble
- Alf Maria Amble (1909–1950) was a Norwegian anti-Semitic activist and writer. He was born in Trondhjem, but grew up in a foster home in Stjørdal.
- He took a short technical education in Oslo in 1925–1926, but committed several petty crimes in his young days.
- He was given a new chance to migrate to Canada, but was sentenced for crimes there too, and was extradited.
- After spending some time at sea he returned to Norway in 1928–1929.
- He worked briefly within the Communist Party of Norway, but later shifted to the far right and joined Fatherland League.
- Before the Second World War he was also affiliated with the Nazi party National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway, and was a member of the Deutscher Fichte-Bund from 1937.
- He was briefly involved in the Oxford Movement, but made a break with this organization.He committed more crimes around 1930, was convicted of breaking and entering and three years in prison.
- He was released from Opstad tvangsarbeidshus in 1933, and despite taking the examen artium in 1934 he spent most of his future career as an activist.
- Historian Terje Emberland has analyzed his views as loosely based on Norse mythology, with millennialistic and messianistic aspects.
- Amble was also a fervent anti-Semite; Emberland has used Saul Friedländer's term "redemptive anti-Semitism" to describe Amble's views.He became known for gluing activistic posters in the streets of Oslo, particularly in December 1938, when his actions was probably inspired by the Kristallnacht.
- Amble was arrested and tried for these anti-Semitic posters.
- He fled Norway for Germany after being released from detention, then returned in the autumn of 1939, and was acquitted.
- As a part of the trial Amble was assessed by forensic psychiatrist Gabriel Langfeldt, who among other things diagnosed Amble with "enduringly weakened mental faculties".
- Langfeldt (and Ørnulv Ødegård) would later, famously, apply the same diagnosis to the worldwide known author Knut Hamsun.
- Amble's defender was Albert Wiesener.In addition to producing posters, Amble held public speeches, ran the small publishing house Nor-press, published a periodical called VÃ¥r kamp ("Our Struggle", cf.
- "My Struggle") and led his own association named Norrøna.
- In 1940 he released the book Mak benak.
- Boken om menneskeofringer, where he tried to corroborate his ideas of blood libel.
- He also released the crime novel Ti kjennes for rett in 1942, where the protagonist was a Germanic supremacist.
- In a review, Aftenposten called it a "product of little interest".
- He managed to write with a fair amount of suspense, but the book lacked in fantasy and logic.
- Amble is also known for translating Hávamál. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, which lasted from 1940 to 1945, Amble was recruited as an agent for Abwehr.
- His day job was as a German language teacher.
- He joined the party Nasjonal Samling in 1941, but left in 1942.
- He instead founded the "peace association" Runa, which was forbidden in 1943.
- After the occupation's end, he was arrested in late May 1945, then released while awaiting trial.
- In 1947 he re-published Fredsboka, this time on his own publishing house Ama Forlag.
- In 1947 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to four years of forced labour.
- He was released in 1950, but died in the same year.
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