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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...
When sadistic Gestapoman Kurt Rediess suppressed Oslo University last December, sending all male students who could not prove themselves good quislings to German concentration camps, he ruptured upwards of 1,000 homes. Last week some of those homes received their first news of missing sons,: a printed form from Oranienburg, reporting the death of the student, offering to ship the ashes for 75 crowns (prewar...