Konrad Sundlo

Konrad Sundlo (born in 1881 in Kristiansand, Norway, died 25 May 1965 on Nesøya, Asker, Norway) was a Norwegian officer and politician in Nasjonal Samling before and during Second World War. He was sentenced to life imprisonment during the prosecution of persons charged with treachery in Norway after the war.

Background
Sundlo was educated as an officer and graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1902. He joined Nasjonal Samling in 1933, and was appointed commander of Infantry Regiment number 15 the same year.

Second World War
When the German attack on Norway came 9 April 1940, he was a colonel and commander-in-chief for the Norwegian troops in Narvik. When Vidkun Quisling visited Adolf Hitler in Berlin autumn 1939, he had shown a letter from his fellow party member Sundlo, and ensured that a German operation in Narvik would be solved peacefully. The leader of Kriegsmarine, Erich Raeder, had then pressed forward to get bases in Norway, and in a directive to the Navy 6 March 1939, he ensured that they would not meet difficulties in Narvik. It is not known whether or not Sundlo was aware that his name being used this way, neither from Quisling or the German authorities' side.

After the surrender of Narvik 9 April 1940, Sundlo was considered a traitor of his divisional manager, general Carl Gustav Fleischer. However, during the judicial settlement this was reduced to "negligent offences". Sundlo personally meant that he spared Narvik from annihilation by surrendering it. The Supreme Court gave him support and cleared him from the accusations. Regardless of this, he was still found guilty for a number of other situations during the time of occupation. He was stripped of his colonel position, and sentenced to life in prison with hard labor. Three of the eight judges voted for a death sentence. Sandlo was pardoned in 1952.

During the German occupation Sundlo was first the Rikshirdsjef from August 1940 to 1941. After that he became a Nazi county governor of Oslo for eight months, in Akershus from 1943 to 1944 and at the end in Sogn og Fjordane until the Liberation.