Word: norsemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any Nazi weapons left unguarded. Secret anti-Nazi organizations have flourished and have smuggled in money from sympathetic Sweden, arms from Britain...
When it was ordered that mention of exiled King Haakon be stricken from prayers, Norwegian Lutheran ministers developed the practice of pausing while congregations thunderously filled in the deletion. With other insignia banned, loyal Norsemen now wear in their buttonholes bread-ration cards, still stamped with King Haakon's arms...