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1948: Ragnar Skancke, the last executed in Norway
ExecutedToday.com ^ | August 28, 2014 | Headsman

Posted on 08/27/2020 6:57:41 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1948 at stately Akershus Fortress, a firing squad carried out the last execution in Norwegian history — that of Ragnar Skancke. Skancke (English Wikipedia entry | Norwegian) was an electrical engineer in academia, and the very first posts he held in his political life were the ministries that Vidkun Quisling named him to in the wartime Third Reich client government. That doesn’t exactly mean the man was apolitical; he had joined Quisling’s Nasjonal Samling fascist movement in 1933.

As Minister for Church and Educational Affairs for most of the war years, Skancke got to do things like purge books in service of a fascist-friendly curriculum, and maneuver Norway’s reluctant Lutheran clergy into better compliance with the new order....

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: norway

1 posted on 08/27/2020 6:57:41 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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2 posted on 08/27/2020 7:03:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Trump is coming up. And your point is?


3 posted on 08/27/2020 7:09:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Norway’s leadership for the past several generations has busied itself with the task of importing Muslims in vast numbers with the result that Oslo today is trending fast toward third world sh-thole. Treason like this guy? Yes, but voter-approved, so it’s all good.


4 posted on 08/27/2020 7:10:18 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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Jesus, if the Norwegians execute somebody they must REALLY be bad! By the way we have a ton of skanks that need to be executed.


5 posted on 08/27/2020 7:12:18 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I agree. That’s my point when it comes to some of these posts.

Others- well, there are some heroes who were executed by the enemy and deserve to be remembered.

The remainder are just interesting for one reason or another.


6 posted on 08/27/2020 7:20:14 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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Now I know where the deragatory term Skank comes from. What’s ya know.


7 posted on 08/27/2020 7:29:37 PM PDT by semaj (Death to Traitors!)
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