Word: eivind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader of the resistance is the ex-Primate of Norway, forthright Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo. Quisling haled him in soon after his resignation, accused him of treason, finally shouted: "You triple traitor! You deserve to have your head chopped off." "Here I am," answered Berggrav, but his offer was not taken...
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 overlords have good cause to hate Bishop Berggrav. As Primate of 97%-Lutheran Norway he has stubbornly fought them at every turn, with the result that only 27 of Norway's 700 parish pastors back Quisling. Last year Eivind Berggrav and his fellow bishops defied a Nazi ban and circulated a pastoral indicting the Nazis for their interference with churches, courts and schools, their effort to make pastors break their oath of silence on matters confided to them, and "the systematic rule of terror by Nazi storm troopers...