Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan enters the account through the brief political history of Tom Eiternes, a Norwegian extremist who reportedly founded a local chapter before later breaking with the organization. The passage connects that local initiative to a claimed financial relationship with the American Klan, but does not describe the organization’s broader activity or structure in Norway.

A Norwegian Chapter

The account identifies Eiternes as the founder of a local Ku Klux Klan chapter. At the time, he said he had received $26,000 in financial support from the American parent organization. The funding is presented as his claim; the passage does not independently verify it or explain how the money was used.

Eiternes’s Break with the Klan

Eiternes later served a prison sentence after a robbery by a group of five men ended in the stabbing of a store clerk and their arrest in Sweden. While imprisoned in Norway, he met Varg Vikernes and publicly said he had converted to Odinism, apparently following conversations with him. Eiternes then severed his connection with the Klan and formed an alliance with Vikernes. In this account, the Klan is therefore a point in Eiternes’s political trajectory, not the organization that defined his subsequent allegiance.