Lieutenant Colonel Ole Arnt Fosby was the commander of Odderøy Fortress on the 9th of April 1940. He wrote in his report a few days later, “I experienced the most bitter moment of my life when he had to surrender to the Germans’’. Later that year, Fosby became a member of the Norwegian National Assembly (NS), a political party established by Vidkun Quisling in 1933. The NS cooperated with the German occupying forces, becoming the only legal party in Norway in the autumn of 1940. Representing the NS Party, Fosby became deputy mayor and mayor of Kristiansand. After the war, Fosby was charged with treason, though his case never came to court due to his poor health.
Did Ole Arnt Fosby cooperate with the occupying forces, or did he resist? What do you think?
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