Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factory we got underground bulletins with the latest news from the BBC twice a day. The underground press works very hard and Norwegians are well informed about what is going on in the world. When the R.A.F. bombed Oslo they killed some civilians. The quislings made big headings in the paper to show us that Germans resist an awful people trying to bomb out civilians, but we knew the R.A.F. was trying to hit the Gestapo headquarters. It is bad, of course, that civilians have to be killed, but it was a good try and we didn't care...
Boldness was indicated. The meeting was called for 3 o'clock in a conference room of Oslo's Deichman Library. Along the slush-filled Moellergaten, past the Swedish Church and the grim Gestapo prison at No. 19, crowds splashed all day. From all over the city, underground editors filtered quietly through the throng toward the library...
...relentless prosecution failed to win its case. That week, the last in February, eight of Oslo's eleven underground papers failed to appear. Last week all eleven came out on schedule...
...Through Oslo's winter evenings Jacob Roeken Oedegaard, a young quisling, dreamed approved dreams and worked on his short story. It won first prize ($35) in a Storm Trooper's contest. Wrote Storm Trooper Oedegaard...
Explained a tardy young typist when called on the carpet in one of Oslo's vast Nazi bureaus: "I cannot do without coffee." Snapped her Hitler-worshipping boss: "Henceforth, come five minutes early, repeat until opening time 'I can do without coffee. Heil Hitler.'" Chanted the typist dutifully each morning: "I can do without Hitler. Heil coffee...