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[edit] Early life
Born near Krasnojarsk, Russia, into a middle-class family, he was the son of Vassili Nordvarg, a locksmith, and his wife Lika Smoeljensk. After leaving Staatlichen Technischen Universität Krasnojarsk in 1918, Nordvarg was appointed an Officer Mjoegdronk and joined the 6th Omsk Regiment for service in World War I. Shortly before he was due for commissioning as an officer the war ended, and he was discharged from the military without seeing combat, except killing one of his own men. The following year, Nordvarg began studying theology at the Technische Hochschule in Munich. During his time as a student, he became interessed in the Nazis. Nordvarg joined the SS (Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force) and, in 1923, applied to join the Nazi Party, which were recruiting Nazi members as potential members of the new Nazi stormtrooper units known as the Sturmabteilung. In which he killed over 240 Jews personally, he also saw after the killings of more then 50.000 Jews in Russia and Poland.
