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Last week Heinrich Himmler, the man who had cleaned up Vienna, Warsaw and Paris for Hitler, arrived in Oslo and informed Norway it could hope for no freedom even after a German victory. The Reich was going to use Norway to supply and hydroelectrify greater Germany. The present Nazi garrison (estimated at 300,000) would stay until "reliable" Quisling forces could take its place...
...Bravest resistance was in Norway, where the Nazis ordered police to attend all church services and report on any "trespasses" against the "New Order"-a result of the recent letter from the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Most significant signer: Dr. Eyvind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, who at first publicly urged the Norwegians to cooperate with the Nazis, but has now apparently realized how fully they threaten everything Norse and Christian. Despite the police, Norwegian congregations continued to pray for exiled King Haakon and the Lutherans were reported backed in their struggle by other...
...order" on winter-chilled Norway. Suddenly there were terrible reverberations in the western mountains, and whole mountainsides, loosened by rain and snow, roared down into the valleys. Masses of mud and rock clogged roads and highways, smashed houses and bridges, snapped telephone poles, blocked the vital Oslo-Bergen railway at ten different places...
Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national...
...Stockholm, Sweden, word was received from Oslo that Nazis, who once banned and damned the Nobel Peace Prize had, by invading Norway, probably won the Nobel foundation's funds...