Eivind Saxlund was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 lawyer and writer.

Saxlund was a barrister by occupation, a lawyer with access to work with cases in the Supreme Court of Norway

Supreme Court of Norway

The Supreme Court of Norway was established in 1815 on the basis of the Constitution of Norway's §88, prescribing an independent judiciary. It is located in Oslo and is Norway's highest court...

. However, he is better remembered for his anti-Semitic literature. He published the pamphlet of Theodor Fritsch

Theodor Fritsch

Theodor Fritsch, originally Emil Theodor Fritsche , was a German publisher and pundit. His anti-semitic writings did much to influence popular German opinion against Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

 Jøder og Gojim ("Jews and Goyim") in 1910, translated it and wrote a preface, in Det 20de Århundre

Det 20de Århundre

Det 20de Århundre was a periodical published by the Norwegian Labour Party.Its purpose was to print background articles on ideology and issues. For news, the party had a full network of newspapers, with Arbeiderbladet as the leading organ.Editor from 1920 to 1923 was Arvid G. Hansen...

, with new editions published in 1911, 1922 and 1923. He also contributed to Mikal Sylten

Mikal Sylten

Mikal Peder Olaus Sylten was a Norwegian writer.Originally a typographer, from 1916 he published a periodical, Nationalt Tidsskrift. It was staunchly anti-semitic, and Sylten took up the swastika as a symbol in 1917, three years before Adolf Hitler chose to do so...

's anti-Semitic magazine Nationalt Tidsskrift, both economically and with articles.

Saxlund died in 1936, long before Norway was submit to Nazi rule

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and ended on May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht...

 (1940–1945). A jurist who worked as junior solicitor for Saxlund, Håkon Høst, became a member of Nasjonal Samling and Germanske SS Norge, and for this in addition to a murder he was sentenced to death in 1946

Legal purge in Norway after World War II

When the occupation of Norway ended in May 1945, several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens were tried and convicted for various acts that the occupying powers sanctioned...

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Together with Anna Magdalene Sundt (1863–1950), Eivind Saxlund had the son Alf Eivind Saxlund, he too a barrister.

Author

• Wurzellose Rasse. (in German; i. e. "Rootless Race" sc. the Jews) in the anthology Die Weltfront. Eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen antisemitischer Führer aller Völker. (i. e. "The worldwide front. A collection of essays written by antisemitic leaders from all the people of the world.") Ed. Hans Krebs
  Hans Krebs (National Socialist)
  Hans Krebs was a Moravian Nazi Party member and SS-Brigadeführer from Czechoslovakia.-Career:Hans Krebs was born in the ancient town Jihlava in Moravia when it was part of the Habsburg Empire and was involved in the German nationalistic movements from his youth...
  
  . Weltfrontverlag, Aussig 1926, p. 43-47 online