KNUT HAMSUN / AFTENPOSTEN, 07.05.1945

I am not worthy to speak loudly of Adolf Hitler, nor do his life and deeds call for sentimental arousal.

He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind and a herald of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reformative figure of the highest order, and it was his historic fate that he had to work in a time of unprecedented baseness, which in the end brought him down.

Thus may the ordinary West European look upon Adolf Hitler. And we, his faithful followers, now bow our heads upon his death.

KNUT HAMSUN / AFTENPOSTEN, 07.05.1945