Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of its determined, efficient underground work, the church was able to pop up on V-E day with the reins all ready in its hands. It had plans ready for the reconstruction of destroyed or damaged churches, had raised 1,000,000 kroner ($200,000) to start a new church newspaper (the first issue will be published June 1) and had kept close tabs on clergymen who had betrayed the church in its hour of need. Bishop Berggrav's first official act last week was to suspend 50 quisling pastors...
...tale. "The food was terrible. Potatoes and fish. If we asked for seconds, we were gourmandes. And after the way we were working! We lived in the rooms where we worked and we could not leave the house. Sentries stopped us at the door. We made three kroner par coup (nominally $1.40), which added up. But when we sent our money home, the filthy Boche stole...
...morning Danes would find abandoned parachutes in the fields. Word spread rapidly that the British were repatriating the young men who had fled to learn the saboteur's trade. One such young man was found crumpled in a Copenhagen garden, false papers, ration cards and 30,000 kroner in his pockets. His parachute had failed...
Called in by the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell these stories, to soothe a teapot tempest, were Censor Byron Price, Attorney General Francis Biddle, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Captain Ellis M. Zacharias of the Navy Intelligence, Brigadier General Hayes A. Kroner of the Army Intelligence...
...soccer game between Danish and Viennese teams on Denmark's Constitution Day (June 5) the crowd bombarded German soldiers with rocks and bottles. Result: Minister of Justice Harald Petersen was forced to resign; 60 Danes drew long prison terms. The Nazis charge Danish prisoners two kroner a day board & keep, and if they can't pay it, the Government must...