Word: eivind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace on earth. In a log hut deep in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, a man who has done as much as any other to keep Christian hope alight in the darkness of occupied Europe will celebrate Christmas, as he has for two years past, a solitary prisoner. Eivind Josef Berggrav resigned his title and position as Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church, on Feb. 24, 1942. Arrested two months later by Puppet Dictator Vidkun Quisling, he has ever since been confined by barbed wire to an area 500 meters long...
...Certain churchmen" may well be Norway's six Lutheran Bishops still at liberty but not officiating, since they refuse to recognize the quisling church setup. Out of reach of questioners is Bishop Eivind Berggrav, whom the Nazis guard in solitary confinement in a cottage near Oslo. Bishop Berggrav observed his 59th birthday last month. As a birthday present, the Nazis took him, under heavy guard, to the dentist...
...cottage on the outskirts of Oslo, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of Norway's Lutheran Church, last week passed the first anniversary of his arrest. The four-room house, fenced by barbed wire, is constantly patrolled by eleven Quisling storm troopers. The guard is frequently changed lest the men get on friendly terms with their prisoner, for Bishop Berggrav in confinement is as strong a moral force as all the churchmen at liberty in the land...
...leader of Norway's church defiance of Quisling and Hitler-ex-Primate and ex-Bishop of Oslo Eivind Berggrav-was thrown into the Bretvedt concentration camp along with three of his pastors last week, on charges of "instigation to rebellion...
Circulated through Norway was a secretly printed manifesto which called imprisoned Eivind Berggrav "more than ever our Bishop and spiritual leader," .roundly declared: "A fight is on, a deadly fight between irreconcilable opponents, between Christians and barbarians, a fight for everything which we love and cherish, against brutality and lawlessness, a fight which will make the Nazi hangmen tremble. . . . The fight of the Norwegian Church is Norway's fight, for the whole of Norway is united behind the Church...