Johan Bernhard Hjort was a Norwegian supreme court lawyer. He is known for co-founding Nasjonal Samling in 1933, his later resistance work against Nazi Germany, including his work to help Scandinavian prisoners, as well as for his role as one of the country's leading defense attorneys after the war.
Johan Bernhard Hjort (circa 1930)
Johan Bernhard Hjort and his wife Anna Cathrine, Bestum (1967)
Hjort (right), with Vidkun Quisling (left), ca. 1936
Nasjonal Samling was a Norwegian far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who led the party's paramilitary wing (Hirden) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after various internal conflicts. The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May 1933. Nasjonal Samling was made illegal and disbanded at the end of World War II, on 8 May 1945.
Vidkun Quisling on the podium during a party meeting in the 1930s.
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Image: NS ÅRBOK 1944 Nasjonal Samling Rikspropagandaledelsen 1943 Nasjonalbiblioteket no nb digitidsskrift 2019082781057 001 Public domain 128 Kvinnehirden Kvinneorganisasjonen NSK (Norwegian Nazi Party uniforms) 400ppi Retouched clean crop