The Swedish National Archives has made author Knut Hamsun's treason case available to everyone in the Digital Archive. "This is of both war and cultural historical significance," says author and literature professor Tore Rem.
- When the National Archives now makes Knut Hamsun's treason case available digitally, it is of both war and cultural historical importance. The public will now be able to see for themselves important parts of the basis for what became a national trauma, when one of our greatest writers so clearly chose to side with the occupying forces and the Nazi regime. Not least, you will be able to see Hamsun's role in Nazi propaganda, and you will be able to assess how he portrayed his relationship with his own recent past," says author and literature professor Tore Rem about the publication.
Read also: Digitizing the traitor archive
The entire treason archive of 90,000 cases is now being digitized. The project is the most comprehensive digitization of war sources the National Archives has ever done.
To the treason case against Knut Hamsun in the Digital Archive
