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...Knut Hamsun, 85, Nobel Prizewinning Norwegian novelist (Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On) and pro-Nazi intellectual, was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown upon learning of the German collapse. Once before the old man was made ill by wartime: a stroke overtook him in 1942 when countrymen who had once loved his books mailed him thousands of dog-eared copies after he advised them to "throw away your rifles. . . " The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals...
Terboven purred with pleasure and circulated the slogan: "Let us follow our leaders, Quisling, Hamsun,* and Berggrav." The people of Norway muttered "pacifist" at mention of their Bishop's name. But Berggrav held fast. Adolf Hitler had promised Norway religious freedom and a legally constituted government. In the interests of peace and order, the Bishop proposed to do his part...
...Knut Hamsun. Nobel Prizewinning novelist (1920) now universally execrated in Norway, declared "The Germans are fighting for us and . . . crushing England's tyranny...
...When Hamsun, first showed sympathy with the Nazis in 1933, Norwegians cared little. But it was different when the Nazis invaded Norway and Hamsun told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals." In Washington the Norwegian Minister, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, doubted that Hamsun had said this. If he had, said Minister de Morgenstierne, "I am inclined to credit it to a very old man's tiredness and anguish...
...When Hamsun worked in Chicago as a streetcar conductor...