In total, 45 individuals were condemned to death as a result of the legal purge - 30 for treason and 15 for war crimes.
As a lawyer he served as prosecutor during the legal purge after the war.
During the legal purge he was sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was released in the mid 1950s.
The goal was to educate policemen who could participate in the legal purge in Norway after the war.
After the war, Christie lost his position, and was sentenced for treason as a part of the legal purge.
In the following legal purge, 53,000 people were sentenced for treason and 25 were executed.
