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Thorstein John Ohnstad Fretheim (10 May 1886 – 29 June 1971) was a
Norwegian
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acting councillor of state in the
NS government
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of
Vidkun Quisling
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (, ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germ ...
1940–1941, and minister 1941–1945. Fretheim was a district veterinary by profession.
In the
post-war legal purges he was convicted of treason and sentenced to 20 years of forced labour, being pardoned in 1951.
References
1886 births
1971 deaths
Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway
Members of Nasjonal Samling
People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway
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