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...West the Germans did not even originally have easy going. Norse resistance around Bergen was stiff. This week the Allies began to land in force. When British troops were reported advancing as far south and as far inland as Hamar to turn back the German juggernaut, the campaign, largely out of Norwegian hands, entered its next phase...
Allied Tanks Inland...
...Inland, in the midlands belt north of Oslo, British and Norwegian troops supported by Allied tanks appeared on the basis of unofficial reports to be pushing the Germans back in bitter fighting southwest of war-wrecked Hamar...
...Norwegian military spokesman said 1000 German soldiers were isolated in the town of Narvik itself, 1500 at Gratanger, 25 miles north of the port where the Nazis were lured into a trap, and nearly 100 on the hills of Rombak Fjord jutting inland from Narvik...
...tall fighting people of Germany marched into Denmark and Norway and some of the peaceful people of those countries-refugees, frightened liberals, Jews-fled to Sweden. From Malmö in Sweden, a short ferry ride from German-held Copenhagen, Swedes who had not seen war in their lifetimes moved inland. Well-fed Dutch burghers in cities near the German frontier packed up and went to Amsterdam; from Eindhoven a thousand women and children took the broad, flat road to Utrecht. Refugees from once-German Eupen and Malmédy had already fled toward Brussels. In the Danube Valley...