Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snow lay deep on the hills around Oslo. On Christmas Day, as always, Norwegians thronged the ski slopes. Men over 45 and boys under 18, outside the Nazi slave-labor brackets, began practicing for this winter's illegal championship, the fourth since Norway's athletes went on strike...
...boycott was immediately effective. The world-famed ski meet on Holmenkollen, attracting 450 crack jumpers, was abandoned. When quislings tried to organize their own Holmenkollen meet, only 20 nonentities signed up. When a quisling was made president of the Oslo Gymnastic Society, all 7,000 members resigned. Sixty-four wrestlers signed up for matches with Denmark. Day of the elimination contests, not one appeared...
...September 1941, more than a year after the occupation of Norway, Editor in Chief Fredrik Ramm wrote a little essay for his Oslo Morgenbladet...
...Certain churchmen" may well be Norway's six Lutheran Bishops still at liberty but not officiating, since they refuse to recognize the quisling church setup. Out of reach of questioners is Bishop Eivind Berggrav, whom the Nazis guard in solitary confinement in a cottage near Oslo. Bishop Berggrav observed his 59th birthday last month. As a birthday present, the Nazis took him, under heavy guard, to the dentist...
...British bases, U.S. Fortresses flew 1,700 miles to Trondheim and back, left that Norwegian port's submarine and warship nests in flames. The same day, in evidence of the Eighth Air Force's growing might, another U.S. formation raided Heröya, 70 miles southwest of Oslo, and destroyed an aluminum plant...