Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week a letter from his wife. Once a week they take away an answering letter, which his wife must read in Gestapo headquarters. Beyond that, Bishop Berggrav sees no one, talks to no one. Energetic, broad-shouldered and tireless, he spends his days translating the New Testament into modern Norwegian, chopping wood, cleaning his cabin, cooking his meals...
Dream and Awakening. Bishop Berggrav had not always seen so clearly. Once he thought that peace could be won without battle. In the first seven days of the German invasion, a state of chaos existed in Norway under the dictatorship of Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian Nazi organization. To calm the tumult, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven sought the aid of Norway's Primate in forming a provisional government under King and Storting (Parliament). Quisling was quietly shoved into the background and Eivind Berggrav, man of God and man of peace, took to the radio to appeal...
...Hitler's word proved as worthless in Norway as elsewhere. After five months, Terboven abruptly dismissed the King, dissolved the Storting, and decreed a "New Era" of Nazi government for Norway. Berggrav and his Church awoke from their dream of peace. Rallying to the defense of Norwegian liberty, representatives of all branches and factions of the Church met to form the Christian Council for Joint Deliberation, and Eivind Berggrav cried: "God made us Norwegian. He will not put you in uniform and destroy your individuality. He will save you and liberate you. All Christians in this land...
...people of Norway were still skeptical. They wanted proof that all Norwegian Christians were facing in the same direction. Thanks to the Nazis, they soon got it. The puppet government ordered the Church to alter its Common Prayer, omitting the King's name and substituting those of the quisling authorities. Bishop Berggrav flatly refused...
...exact information, enlightenment and joy we derive from reading your excellent magazine make us look forward to each new issue of TIME with eagerness and expectancy. Your articles on war and world politics are of utmost value to us in giving the readers of the Norwegian underground press a wider picture of the world as it is today and will be tomorrow. Many of your articles are wholly or partly translated and printed by our underground papers, and as an example of this we send you enclosed a late edition of our weekly Kronikken...