Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whereas Adolf Hitler can take Denmark's larder without putting anything in, he must sacrifice plenty to get his Norwegian loot. In order to keep the labor of digging, cutting and fishing under way, he must send into Norway just the things Germany can spare least-food, clothing, oil, coal and coke. Obviously he considered this temporary liability worth hazarding for the strategic asset involved: control of Swedish...
...that Germany attacked Norway, German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenberg had a four-hour talk with Premier Molotov in Moscow. The Ambassador had some explaining to do, inasmuch as German occupation of the Norwegian coast would spoil Russian dreams of reaching the Atlantic. Next day Premier Molotov served up a new set of demands on the new Finnish Minister to Moscow, Juho Paasikivi. Chief demands: 1) immediate construction of the promised railroad across Finland to Sweden; 2) an economic agreement at once. If either the Allies or Germany invaded Sweden, it was almost certain that Russia would further...
Night after the Germans pounced on Scandinavia last week, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Swedish Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior and German Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...
...only newsman taken into custody by Nazis. In Berlin when the invasion began were five Danish correspondents, three Norwegians. The Foreign Office succeeded in rounding up four Danes and one Norwegian, interned them in the Kaiserhof Hotel till the show was over...