Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oslo the director of the National Theater beamed on the actors he had called together. "We're about to present nothing less," he announced, "than the world premiere of Per Reidarson's The Last Cry, which will mark a new era in Norwegian drama...
...sports strike started in November 1940, when Nazis suppressed the Norwegian Sports Association with its 300,000 members, a tenth of the population. Patriots rebelled at the New Order's all-powerful little Führers in every sport and district. They substituted secret cross-country meets and ski championships...
Costly Battle. The defeat virtually bankrupted the studied German policy of "the fleet in being"-a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation...
...Nazi domination in Norway was snapping and crackling last week. One snap took the form of a document, The Church and the Transition Period, telling Norwegian Christians how to behave toward quislingites when the Nazis are driven out. The document is sponsored in the U.S. by the Norwegian Information Service. It is anonymous, but the Norwegian authors state that they have "questioned certain churchmen regarding their views...
...their passions we would be starting the new day in Norway by violating God's righteousness. Then the spirit of Naziism would have triumphed over us despite everything, because we would have become what they were. The settlement must and shall be made in accordance with Norwegian law and justice...