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Broad-shouldered, fearless Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo, who has led Norse opposition to Quisling and the Nazis, resigned his post last week in protest against their latest coercive measure...
Norway's six other Lutheran bishops followed his lead and resigned in a body, stating that they could not carry on their work "while the Quisling Government continued to cooperate with the enemy." Stockholm heard rumors that Bishop Berggrav, suspended by the Government, had been thrown into the Grini concentration camp near Oslo...
...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...