Word: olav
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...throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald. To escape political pressure she boarded the American Legion for the U. S., by personal invitation of President...
...later gaunt King Haakon ordered the capitulation of what was left to him of Norway. With Crown Prince Olav and his Government he abandoned a fugitive existence in the fir and birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
Died. Prince Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olav Hohenzollern, 33, first lieutenant of infantry in the German Army, favorite grandson of the ex-Kaiser; of an abdominal wound received while fighting in Flanders; in a military hospital near Brussels...
...countrymen to resist to the last. But Norse loyalists insisted that their King would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those of his son, Crown Prince Olav, depended the immediate fate of Norway's Boyg and the completeness of the Falkenhorst conquest...
Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...