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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...
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...
...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...