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Next morning not one of them showed up. The director, in a fury, sent Gestapo agents out to corral them, bellowed when they were brought in: "You may as well know immediately that the penalty for refusing to act is imprisonment or death...
Rehearsals went on for weeks under the eye of the Gestapo. In October pro-Nazi dignitaries attended the dress rehearsal. The cast performed brilliantly. Leading Man Jörn Ording delivered his key speech to wild applause: "Democracy has brought us to destruction...
Next the Nazis tried terror. Two famed skiers, Krisitian Aubert and Tor Salvesen, were questioned by the Gestapo; burly torturers trampled on their chests until shattered ribs pierced their lungs. Skater Ivar Ballanrud and scores of other athletes were arrested. But of Norway's 300,000 organized sportsmen, no more than 1% went over to the quislings...
...Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
Last week the original death sentence was indirectly carried out. In prison Editor Ramm contracted double pneumonia. Then the Gestapo knew what to do. Prisoner Ramm was ordered home to Norway. At Odense, Denmark, he died...