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Word: hansteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Norway. Two trade-union leaders, Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Vickstroen, refused to have their eyes bandaged, stared at the Nazi firing squad, sang the Norwegian anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: The Wall & the Scaffold | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...baptize the decree in the usual blood bath, Nazis sentenced and shot Viggo Hansteen, chief legal adviser to Norwegian trade unions, and Rolf Vickstroem, secretary of the Transport Union. Four others were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Norway Starts Something | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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