His agenda was to spread news to former members of Lærersambandet, a trade union for teachers set up by the Quisling regime during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany (1940–1945).
[2] It had an informal affiliation to the organization Forbundet for Sosial Oppreisning (FSO, later renamed Institutt for Norsk Okkupasjonshistorie), made up by former collaborators who were critical to the legal purge in Norway after World War II and the victors' version of history.
[1][2] At the same time, the last editor of the now-forbidden Nasjonal Samling newspaper Fritt Folk, Odd Erling Melsom, was hired as editor-in-chief, a position he held until 1978.
[2] In Egil Ulateig's 1996 book Med rett til å drepe, where Hans Fredrik Dahl was a historical consultant, the newspaper was used extensively as a source text.
[4] Ulateig's book contained 136 people which allegedly had been liquidated by the Norwegian resistance movement, many cases taken verbatim from Folk og Land.