Word: falkenhorst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a British Broadcasting Corp. announcer whose ears were bent rather far forward one day last week, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Nazi warlord in Norway, sat down to the table in Oslo, reached as usual for his newspaper, found in its place two copies of the London Times, just two days...
Close beside him was General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. tactician of the Norway campaign, whose specialty is the mountain warfare that would be required on the Greek borders...
...estimated 85,000 Germans had been put into action on Norwegian soil. By this week observers raised the figure to 150,000, despite a heavy toll from continued Allied attacks in the sea lanes off Sweden's west coast. Many more were expected in weeks to come, because Falkenhorst played for Norway for keeps. He got there first, now he must stay there last, since Germany needs Norway not only for military reasons, but for prestige and home morale...
...which may be construed as Peer Gynt's conscience, his better self. The Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether a combination of dismay at the Allies' ineptitude, plus the Gestapo, which promptly moved in led by Gauleiter Terboven (TIME, May 6), plus the treachery of quislings, would eventually result in destruction of the Boyg, extermination of the Norse...
...would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those of his son, Crown Prince Olav, depended the immediate fate of Norway's Boyg and the completeness of the Falkenhorst conquest...