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Last week Heinrich Himmler, the man who had cleaned up Vienna, Warsaw and Paris for Hitler, arrived in Oslo and informed Norway it could hope for no freedom even after a German victory. The Reich was going to use Norway to supply and hydroelectrify greater Germany. The present Nazi garrison (estimated at 300,000) would stay until "reliable" Quisling forces could take its place...
...specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From Stockholm came reports that Norway's ever doughty ministers had read openly from their pulpits a forbidden letter from Norway's seven bishops, condemning Quisling and the Nazis root and branch (TIME...
...Nazi leadership and named the order in which he would erase them. Said the onetime appeasement-minded former Ambassador to Germany, who was in at the death of Czecho-Slovakia: "If I were given a gun and told to take two shots, I would shoot Himmler [Gestapo Chief], then Ribbentrop [Foreign Minister], and brain Hitler with the butt of the rifle...
...Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor...
Sorrows of the Vanquished. Last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler summoned a conference of staff officers from Germany's armies of occupation to consider measures for dealing with unrest...