Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months Germany has tried to persuade Norwegians to put the yoke around their own necks, produce a Nazi-run Government of their own. But Norway turned stubborn at every turn. First efforts were directed at King Haakon, but he refused to abdicate. Then pressure was turned on the Storting (Parliament). Terboven demanded the deposition of Haakon by parliamentary decree, delegation of power to a Riksraad (National Council) willing to cooperate with Germany. To lend ideological coloring Nazi mystagogue Dr. Alfred Rosenberg turned out a neat phrase, embracing Norway, Sweden and Denmark in a Nazi "Community of Fate" (TIME, July...
Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...
With the return to Oslo of Major Quisling, after a two-month stay in Berlin, Norwegian feeling boiled over. Despite Gestapo terrorism, leaflets, chain letters and mimeographed pamphlets flooded the country shouting opposition to Germany. Fifty thousand copies of the Norwegian Ten Commandments urged loyalty to "King Haakon and the Government you yourself elected," hate for Adolf Hitler and his supporters, death for all quislings and any who consort with them. With a spunky show of defiance 149 out of 150 Norwegian Deputies banded together in what they called an Anti-Quisling Front. Norwegian wits shortened the Reich Commissioner...
...writes a simple, straightforward, courageous account of the fight of a small neutral (Norway had no standing army) for survival, of heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling...
After the conquest of Norway, Ger many planned to sweep the whole dynasty of King Haakon from the throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald...