NORWEGIAN WOMAN COLLABORATED
SENTENCED TO GAOL Recd 11 p.m. Oslo, Aug. 26. Marie Hamsun, wife of the author and Nobel Prize winner, Knut Hamsun, was sentenced to three years’ hard labour and fined 75000 kroner for collaboration with the Germans. The Court also deprived her of civic rights and ordered confiscation of 150,000 kroner.
It was alleged that Mrs. Hamsun admitted travelling 1o Germany during the war propagandising for “Nor-wego-Germanism.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 August 1946, Page 5
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