Word: gestapoed
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...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 as a people with a soul of their own, their subjugation as helots of the German people...
...Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist...
Recalling recent photographs of loaded and peripatetic gallows wheeled through Polish village streets by Gestapo pacifiers, Norwegians awaited with uncertain emotions the arrival of Hitler's envoy and Himmler's bullyboys...
...were shot . . . without counting those who died in prison. . . . The churches are all closed with very few exceptions. . . . In the district of Znin for two months no Masses have been allowed to be celebrated. All the priests have been arrested and it is forbidden to administer any sacrament. . . . The Gestapo is the owner of the Church. . . . But the people have faith and they are bearing their trial with real spirit. They are not yielding and they can never be destroyed...
...whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete when Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation of Germans who would conduct genealogical research all over the kingdom to establish the "Viking ancestry" of prominent Nazis. It was just luck for Iceland that Adolf Hitler took Bohemia-Moravia instead, and Genealogist...