Norwegian Germanic Army

The Norwegian Germanic Army appears in the book’s account of the Hadeland killings as a group involved in an unusually serious episode of political violence in Norway. The discussion places the incident against a broader setting of far-right activism but offers only limited information about the organization itself: it does not describe its membership, leadership, or formal structure.

Identity and Context

The book refers to the group as calling itself the Norwegian Germanic Army. It does not provide details about how the group was organized or how many people belonged to it. Instead, the name enters the account through a dispute that escalated into lethal violence, making the episode the principal evidence presented about the organization.

The Hadeland Killings

At the start of the 1980s, a dispute arose between members of the Norwegian Germanic Army and two young men who had been enlisted to steal weapons for the group. The account identifies fear that the two assistants might speak to the police as the immediate reason they were killed. It does not name the men or specify which members carried out the killings, so responsibility cannot be assigned more precisely from the available description.

Significance and Limits of the Account

The book sets this episode apart from the other far-right violence it discusses, including bomb attacks and attacks on a mosque and left-wing bookshops: those incidents were described as serious but infrequent, while the Hadeland killings were presented as the notable exception to the absence of sustained armed political violence. The Norwegian Germanic Army is therefore significant here chiefly through the account of this dispute and its fatal outcome. The evidence does not establish what became of the group afterward.