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...seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they denounced the reign of terror by the Storm Troopers, the attack on schools and students, the forced resignation of the Supreme Court, and demanded to know whether the Norwegian State was still Christian...
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...
...brother, fighting with the British, a Norwegian girl wrote: ". . . there is a saying among the people of Norway today, 'So that the many may live, I must be prepared to sacrifice . . . even life itself.' As our own country and our own home are unsafe, the peace of heaven comes remarkably close...