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...Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles in one day, which...
...protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung, a Jew-hater and energetic protagonist of the Nazi Herrenvolk (ruling caste) ideology...
...battle at Elverum, a siege at Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
Osloans, now beginning to get their backs up, could and did resist self-appointed Premier Quisling. Failing to get cooperation from the people, Quisling gave way last week to a new puppet regime, headed by 68-year-old Infgolf Elster Christensen, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, since 1929 Governor of Oslo District. Blessed by the Norwegian Supreme Court, this regime was described by Berlin as the legally constituted Government of Norway. Aside from the ubiquitous Quisling, who was put in charge of demobilization, nearly all members of the interim Government were local Government officials and businessmen...
...puppet Government urged nonresistance. When Germans offered reichsmarks they got what they wanted to buy-at 1.66 kroner (40?) per reichsmark. Nevertheless, with its King in hiding, the city blacked out, food falling short and young men slipping off to the hills every night to join their Army, Oslo finally became resentful. Nazis shot snipers as usual. At least 100 Osloans were executed, many for refusing to chauffeur Germans to the front...