Word: elverum
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Skagerrak and Kattegat, when Norse resistance stiffened and the "Minute Men of Elverum" covered their Government's flight, more & more German men and arms were already pouring northward by sea as well as by air from Germany and from new Nazi bases in Denmark, grimly taking losses as they had to, but still coming on. Unlike the Allies' relief expedition, Falkenhorst's invasion was geared to smite and smite again...
...battle at Elverum, a siege at Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
...Norwegian military headquarters admitted that Hamar and Elverum in central Norway remain firmly in German hands. Previous unconfirmed reports had said that British-Norwegian forces had recaptured the towns...
Wednesday, Elverum became Norway's Lexington (Mass.). When the German flying wedge that had scared the Government out of Hamar rolled up to Elverum, their busses were stopped by a barricade of overturned autos...
Wham! banged a rifle. Wham! Wham! The Minute Men of Elverum offered Norway's first interior resistance. Some of the Germans ran into the woods. The busses turned and fled. The Germans fell back south of Hamar and all over Norway hearts rose, resistance hardened...