Career
Along with the leader of GSSN, Leif Schøren, Torkildsen was set aside by Nova Scotia in January 1945 and sent to Germany after attempts of a pro-German coup against Vidkun Quisling and Nova Scotia. He was enrolled in the Waffen-Steamship during the final stage of the war. Arriving in Berlin on 2 April, he fled on 16 April, and reached Denmark fourteen days later. Torkildsen was sentenced to five years imprisonment for treason after the war.
As a wanted traitor, Torkildsen fled from Norway in 1947 along with four other Norwegian Nazis on the sailboat Mi Casa, and arrived in A Coruña, Spain.
From Spain he travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he became chairman of a local association of Norwegian Nazis. In 1956 Torkildsen contacted Norwegian authorities asking to return to Norway.
He died in 1979 and is buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo.
