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On the same Norway trip, I managed to pick up this place card from an NS Christmas party held in Oslo 1944 for Frontfighters. One of the invitees, a war invalid, who lost part of his leg on the Eastern Front, attended this party and took the table card and went around gathering a few signatures of high ranking NS members.

At the party were several notables. I recognize the signatures of Quisling and Jonas Lie. Can anyone tell me who some of the others were?

John

John,
I "re-enacted" the event.

The war invalid guy went to Fylkesf�rer Holm for a conversation and than he asked Mr. Holm to give him an autograph.
Mr Holm picked up HIS table card and signed it for the ex-front fighter.
His signature (R Holm) is clearly readable right beside his name
I think "Fylkesf�rer" is a title, and Mr Holm's given name started with "R".
F�rer is very similar to f�hrer...
Our Norwegian members can easily solve this question.

And after that the guy went around the room for more autographs.

This is my theory.

Anyway it is a very interesting piece! Congratulation!

Janos

John,
I identified another signature:
At the top of the reverse side:
Arnvid Vasbotten

http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/v/v1.html
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/the-governm....html?id=438672

Oh, my God! And I do not speak Norwegian!!

Janos

Arnvid Vasbotten

He was an NS Minister (8 November 1944-8 May 1945) in Ministry of the Interior.

Janos

Reverse side, bottom:

Hans Skarphagen - NS Minister (1 February 1944-8 May 1945).

Ministry of Public Labour
(re-named Ministry of Traffic 1 February 1944)

Janos

Reverse side, 3rd from the top:

Johan Andreas Lippestad
Ministry of Social Affairs
NS Minister 25 September 1941-1 February 1942 and from 1 February 1942 Leave of absence 8 October 1944.

Janos

Reverse side, 2nd from top:

Alf Larsen Whist (Signed the card "Alfwhist")
NS Minister 12 June 1944-8 May 1945.
Ministry of Trade, Industry, Crafts and Fisheries,
(re-named Ministry of Industry 1 April 1943)

Also chief of the Ministry of Shipping until 12 June 1944.

Minister without ministry, responsible for the coordination of provisions and industrial war efforts 4 November 1943. Chief of the Ministry of Industry 12 June 1944. (NS)

More info in english:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Whist

Only one more left!

Janos

OK John,
the name of mistery Mr Holm was Rolf Holm.

Info:
The Hird was the "SturmAbteilung", ie party militia, of the norweigan nazi party Nasjonal Samling (NS), led by Vidkun Quisling.

Nasjonal Samling inlucuded several sub-organisations appart from the Hird, such as:

NS Ungdomsfylking (NSUF), led by Minister Axel Stang, was the Norweigan equivalent of the Hitler Jugend.

NS Kvinneorganisasjon (NSK), led by Landsleder Olga Bjoner, was the organization for women.

NS Bondegrupper (NSBG), led by Minister Fretheim, was the organization for farmers.

NS Faggruppeorganisasjon (NSFO), led by Odd Fossum, was the organization for workers.

NS Studentfylking (NSSF), led by Fylkesf�rer Rolf Holm, was the organization for students.

NS Hjelpeorganisasjon (NSH), led by Landsleder Erling Traaholt, was the welfare organization.

NS Kamporganisasjon (KO), led by Franklin Knudsen (1940-1945), was an organization of the most dedicated members of the Nasjonal Samling. It was founded in 1936 and the membership were 428 later that year and grew to 7.000 in the end.


Janos

Janos, you are amazing.

Thank you for this.

John