Word: moellergaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boldness was indicated. The meeting was called for 3 o'clock in a conference room of Oslo's Deichman Library. Along the slush-filled Moellergaten, past the Swedish Church and the grim Gestapo prison at No. 19, crowds splashed all day. From all over the city, underground editors filtered quietly through the throng toward the library...
...interrogation at No. 19 Moellergaten went on, the prosecutors tried a new persuasion: wide metal cuffs, slipped around wrist and knee, with a wing-nut attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued...
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