Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Records of a Norwegian Cabinet meeting at which Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht warned that Norway must not get in the war "on the wrong side...
...Gudbrandsdal, after the main Nazi power-drive had plowed through Lillehammer, the Norse and British who escaped capture there fell back on Allied reinforcements for a stand where the valley narrows at Otta and Kvam, only 35 miles south of Dombås. Norwegian General Otto Ruge rallied his men with this message: "Now the time for withdrawing has passed," he said. "Stand by and keep together and we shall fight the battle to victory...
What happened to 1,500 men of General Dietl's original landing force became known last week. Retreating Norwegian troops tempted them to pursuit up the road to Tromsö, then cut off their retreat at the town of Gratangen, which was set afire. The Nazis took shelter in farmhouses, Norse sharpshooters picking them off when they stuck their heads out. It was such a trap as the Finns sprang repeatedly on whole divisions of Russians, and it worked as perfectly. Hungry, half-frozen, before week's end 850 survivors at Gratangen surrendered...
...decimated British advance party at Steinkjer as saying to him: "For God's sake, tell them we have got to have airplanes and anti-aircraft guns. . . . It's a bloody mess. They've let us down in London." He quoted a Norse captain as saying, after Norwegians covered the shattered Britons' retreat: "It looks as if the British were going to fight to the last Norwegian...
...claims that the President, being in touch with confidential State Department cables, sees enough danger in the possibility of a Nazi victory to go ahead full blast with economic aid to the Allies. Thus he has repealed the arms embargo, denounced the dictatorships, and interned Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish credit to keep it away from Germany. We can see what the President has done, but he won't tell us why he has done it. He has never stated exactly what stake, political and economic, this country has in an Allied victory. He has not said...