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Karsten LARSSEN [????-1952]

Submitted by auurauur on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 16:41

Resident manager at ships agent Karsten Larssen & Co (H.K) Limited

Acting Norwegian Consol during the Japanese occupation 1941-1945. Larssen also acted as Danish Consul in Hong Kong.

Chairman of the Norwegian War Time Committee. After the war Larssen gave a detailed account of the financial transactions and the use of financial aid to the Norwegian authorities and various ships agents.

Norwegian War Time Committee [c.1941-c.1945]

Submitted by auurauur on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 16:19

The Norwegian War Time Committee

The Norwegian War Time Committee was set up shortly after the surrender and during the early Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Their mission was to provide help and assitance to the Norwegian community in Hong Kong as Norwegians were given status as third nationals and semi-enemies and not permitted to leave the territory by the Japanese.

Members

In his statement given in Kweiling in April 1943 after his escape from Hong Kong, Ragnar Brodersen listed these member as of February 1943: