The killing of Quisling policeman Arne Øystein Hvam
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- When the Soviet Union invaded Finland at the end of 1939, Karsten Løvestad, a 23 year old Norwegian born 13 June 1916 , volunteered to assist the Finns, He went to Finland. The war against the Soviet Union was lost and shortly afterwards, Stalin’s ally Hitler invaded Norway.
Together with his three brothers, he later also became involved in the resistance struggle in Norway, where they helped refugees based on the family farm in Trøgstad in Østfold . Trøgstad is around 15km from the Swedish border but the terrain is tough those that are not physically fit.
Karsten Løvestad was first arrested in February 1942, but managed to escape to Sweden. After a short time there, he became a courier between Gothenburg and Oslo , and he also took assignments as a border guide .
On 22 October 1942, Løvestad was accompanying a group of ten people, nine of whom were Jewish and the tenth was another guide and resistance fighter Harry Pedersen. At the Østbanestasjonen in Oslo, they got on the train to Halden which is on the Swedish border. This is a journey of 137km.
When the train was between Skjeberg and Døle , the group became aware of two police officers who were checking documents. One of them was 31 year old Arne Øystein Hvam who was also a member of the Norwegian version of the Nazi party, the Nasjonal Samling or NS, the party of the puppet ruler Vidkun Quisling and the only political party allowed in occupied Norway.
Løvestad had a false passport in the name "Harald Jensen", while the Jews traveled with their real passports (stamped with a red "J"). The further course of events is somewhat unclear, but Hvam is said to have asked the group to leave the compartment. Løvestad then shot and killed Hvam, and jumped off the train with Willy Schermann and Herman Feldmann. near Besseberg.
The other refugees on board the train got off at the next station.
Herman Feldmann broke an arm in the fall, and Willy Schermann sustained some gashes. The hunt for the three was one of the largest police dragnets in occupied Norway.
The two Jews were quickly arrested, while Karsten Løvestad managed to stay free until he was arrested on 27 October 1942.
The murder of Hvam was widely reported in the newspaper of the Norwegian equivalent of the SA, the Hirden. Both Vidkun Quisling and Nazi Reichskommisar Josef Terboven were present when Hvam was buried. A few days later, the Gestapo ordered the arrest of all the Jews in Norway. The Hvam murder was used as a pretext when the order for mass arrests was given to Norwegian state police officers, even though the action had been planned well before the events on the railway line, something the Norwegian state police would have known.
The NS regime portrayed the murder of Hvam as a Jewish attack on the state, and on the new order in Norway.
On 27 October, the NS newspaper Fritt Folk defended the law on confiscation of the possession of Jewish people on the basis of the murder on the Halden train, illogically adding that the measures are in no way to be regarded as any kind of revenge for the murder committed. "
The German occupation forces initially wanted Løvestad to be tried by the Norwegians themselves, and it was considered to put him before a People's Court . The People's Court in Norway was set up along Nazi German lines and used in trials of a political nature, in this case it could mean acts of resistance or just harassment of members of the (NS). They were not very busy, their role, like in Germany was to create fear. However, the People's Courts had not yet sentenced anyone to death, so Minister of Justice Sverre Riisnæs ‘svarry reesness] therefore asked Josef Terboven that Løvestad should be brought before a German court-martial. Sverre Riisnæs svarry reesness] was a lawyer and I would have thought that a German court martial was not competent to judge the case. Of course legal niceties did not bother the Nazi overlords. That wish was granted, Løvestad was put on trial without the benefit of a defence lawyer and on 13 July 1943, he was sentenced to death by the Germans.
The death sentence was carried out on 3 September 1943 and the body was dumped in a mass grave at Trandumskogen [tra nums kogen]. Trandumskogen was the location of where the Nazi authorities dumped those that they killed. After the end of the war, on 27 July 1945, Løvestad was given a funeral with a full parade from the Oslo Fire Brigade , for whom he had worked. His body is today in grave two at Trandumskogen.
Meanwhile Willy Schermann and Herman Feldmann were deported from Norway on the ship Gotenland. They were sent to Auschwitz where they were murdered on 20 August 1943.
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You are a wealth of history and a treasure to the world. I wish I had such a noble endeavor in life.
I never view these videos as entertainment. They are a solemn reminder that history repeats itself and there are no limits to the cruelty of man.
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I love this kind if history because as,an Egyptian born and raised we study heavy thick history, really, we take 11 years to study a simple fraction of it, but European history is not part of it, just very little inaccurate propaganda studies, so I'm really into this kind stuff, in love with it and appreciate all his work as well as similar channels
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Thanks Tom!
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@@HistoryonTH-cam thanks a lot
today for the first time in my whole life it snows in my city, my mother said she never seen it before too.
Not sure to be happy as it was a wonderful one in a kind sight or deeply worry as it is clear something is wrong with our planet, I hope climate change will not harm lots of people.
Peace to all, stay safe and happy
Ironically, the world studies egyptian history. . . there are pyramids in america. . . yet, egypt comes to mind in pyramid or sphinx first...
Heartbreaking story. Thank you so much for your wonderful work.
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Been watching your videos lately. I'm impressed... Keep up the good work
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Humanity . And the lack of humanity. Makes you wonder .
My father was the orderly officer in charge the night Quisling was shot, he was Norwegan, i am Scottish
Presumably he was the orderly officer where Quisling was held, Akershus Fortress, Derrick?
An interesting chain of events in an unsafe world.
Great vlog! I never heard of the murder of the old jewish man and wife. Dear lord! Why did they not hang? The movie I have not heard of too. 12 000 NOK was a gigantic sum of money. 3000 NOK was the money you needed to put down as a down payment for a flat of 75m2, a two bedroom 10 mins tram ride from the city center. In the fall of 1946 the price of an airline ticket from Oslo-NYC round trip was 3500 NOK. That amount is the same to day. Lol! The flat will cost you aprx 5 mil NOK.
"Over Grensen" is an excellent movie! Don't miss it! It IS out on DVD.
th-cam.com/video/sInUiP66omA/w-d-xo.html
Greetings from Norway. Great work.
Thank you - I hope the pronunciation was OK!
@@HistoryonTH-cam Your Norwegian stinks like my English writing😎
Greed will make some people do evil act's, what a shame. God bless.
Interesting video again 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
My Father was the orderly Offcer in charge the night of his execution , I am half Sottish and Norwegian , he said he was not aware of the event until about an hour before
Found the movie her on YT also ,no cc but its there .
Yes it is on YT but I have difficulty following it, not knowing Norwegian.
…….!!!! That’s a tragic story
How was he Quisling cop?
He looks like Ribbentrop
He does a bit.
Scandinavia is not discussed much.
It is in the video.
I thought Norway is part of Scandinavia?
Here is the story of Rakel and Jacob Feldmann: th-cam.com/video/hlolYAwrBos/w-d-xo.html&t=
Interesting video, but your audio is awful. It sounds like you are speaking in an empty room.
I am speaking in an empty room.
"Stalin’s ally Hitler"? 🤣
"legal niceties didn't bother the Nazi Overlords". lol. Legal niceties never seem to bother our Overlords, Nazi or otherwise. Just look at the recent trial of Julian Assange. What a joke!
It must have been a joke. He has not been tried yet.
@@HistoryonTH-cam Wow. Now that is clever. Call it what you will, a hearing perhaps, but a British court has determined that Assange can be extradited to the US to face criminal charges there even though he isn't an American citizen and neither has he committed a crime; unless you consider 'publishing' a crime; and in all probability, I suspect you probably do. Given your interest in 'online communication' (such that it is) I find that odd. Let's just hope that 'position' doesn't come back to bite you in the ass some day.
0:18 "the war against the Soviet Union was lost" No, the finns did not lose the Winter War. 70,000 total finnish casualties vs. 321,000-381,000 soviet total casualties.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War#Aftermath_and_casualties
Wars are not decided by casualty counts. If Finland did not lose, why did it sue for peace?
@@HistoryonTH-cam The Finnish victory was a moral one. They were forced to give up a lot of land.
@@craiga2002 They sued for peace and were forced to give up a lot of land but it is still a victory?
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Germany invaded Norway, Because Britain was planning to invade Norway, and use it as a base to attack Germany. Germany beat the British to it.
What has that got to do with this video?
Rubbish There was no such plan !
That was propaganda that the Nazi Norwegians put out to make the Nazi invasion palatable.
Imagine falling for 80 year old propoganda 💀
let his blood be on our hands.
9:14 Here you are th-cam.com/video/sInUiP66omA/w-d-xo.html
Well done! Unfortunately it is in Norwegian, so I can't understand it.
@@HistoryonTH-cam Sadly, I could not find English subtitles for the movie. However it is possible to try to automatically generate them via TH-cam. But it will take re-uploading the whole movie.
@@ФилиппЛыков-д8е I found that when I was writing the three videos I have done on Norway that I had to use Norwegian documents but I know several languages and with a dictionary could work things out. But listening - that is something else! Yuo write English very well by the way!
@@HistoryonTH-cam Thank you! I watch and read in English quite a lot.
Boring voice ,should use a stand in like Mark Felton ....
Mark uses his real voice.