Word: quislinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then suddenly, in February 1942, 54-year-old Dean Fjellbu was fed up. Calmly, and with certain knowledge of the consequences, he preached a defiant anti-Nazi sermon (TIME, Dec. 25). For over a year the quisling police kept him under house arrest, then banished him with his family to...
But ELAS had their successes too. In the fashionable Kifissia suburb they dynamited their way into R.A.F. headquarters. In central Athens they stormed into forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing...
Shortly after the service, the Dean was dismissed for anti-quisling activity. Three weeks later the seven bishops of Norway resigned their offices. On Easter Sunday all but 64 of the Church's 861 pastors mounted their pulpits to announce their own resignations. With this magnificent declaration of independence...
The Peace of Heaven. On April 9, Führer Quisling ordered the arrest of Bishop Berggrav and four other leaders of the Christian Council. The five were thrown into Grini concentration camp. A week later Berggrav was removed to solitary confinement in his forest hut.
As other European countries have been liberated, tale after tale has been told of churchmen's heroic resistance, of the people's renewed faith. Still-unliberated Norway has its heroic tales still to tell, when it is safe for free men to speak. But it is known that...