5/23/2023 0 Comments Knut hamsun best books![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, Hamsun was pro-Nazi, and even met Hitler and Goebbels, but there is next to nothing in his books that points toward a hatred for Jews. In an infamous piece in the newspaper Aftenposten, he wrote that the Norwegians should lay down their arms and welcome the Germans. There is no doubt whatsoever that the author had very strong sympathies toward Germany and German culture per se, and later toward the Nazi regime.īorn in 1859, Hamsun was 81 when the Germans attacked and occupied Norway on April 9, 1940. Norway's commemoration of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's birth has made Rafael Medoff question that country's role as chairman of an international task force for Holocaust education (" A tale of 2 Norwegian Nobel Prize winners for Literature, June 30" ). NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Right of Reply: More hunger for Hamsun - The Jerusalem Post ![]()
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