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Norwegian Gjestost. Before the Germans came to Norway there were big breakfasts of goat's-milk cheese (Gjestost), fish puddings of haddock, eggs and butter, fried cakes cooked with brandy. Last week 2,250,000 Norwegians (out of 3,000,000) suffered from malnutrition. Hitler's Gauleiter, Josef Terboven, had flatly announced that he did not care if thousands of Norwegians starved. The Germans confiscated cattle, whale meat, the herring catch, potatoes. Starvation, as tragic as that in Greece, confronted the descendants of Vikings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Hunger | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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