Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...award of $50 went to Douglas C. Stenerson '42 of Kirkland House, for a paper entitled "Rolvaag, Immigrant." Stenerson, himself of Norwegian descent and a resident of Minnesota, discussed the life and novels of Rolvaag, who came to that state from the Land of the Fjords...
...Allies, meanwhile, admitted in official communiques that Nazi bombing planes have sunk three more destroyers off the Norwegian coast where Germany's air superiority has driven the British and French expeditionary forces to a new battlefront above the Arctic Circle. The ships belonged to England, France and Poland...
...Allied siege of the iron-ore port of Narvik appeared to have been stalled by snowstorms. The War Office said there was "nothing to report" from that Norwegian battlefront...
...Berlin, Realmleader Hitler took the first steps towards adding Nordic Norway to his Reich, thereby approaching slightly nearer his Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter...
Norway's patriarch of letters, hardbitten Nobel Prizewinner (Growth of the Soil) Knut Hamsun, 80, turned on his Government for continuing to oppose the Nazi invasion. Cried Writer Hamsun in Oslo: "The Government ordered mobilization, then fled. Norwegian youths now die for that 'Government...