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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...
...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...
...coast between Oslo and Knstiansand is a promising place to strike in Norway. Good beaches, space for maneuver, highways and railways leading into the interior are available. But the sea route from Britain is difficult, exposed to air attack for 500 miles. In any event, a movement against southern Norway should be supported by simultaneous, diverting actions against the western and northern coast. Probable opposition: six to 14 German divisions...