Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The free peoples of the world gather this week to proclaim again the gospel of peace on earth. In a log hut deep in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, a man who has done as much as any other to keep Christian hope alight in the darkness of occupied...
Dream and Awakening. Bishop Berggrav had not always seen so clearly. Once he thought that peace could be won without battle. In the first seven days of the German invasion, a state of chaos existed in Norway under the dictatorship of Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian...
"The meanest thing the Germans did in Holland is known at Maastricht as 'the rape of the ants.' . . . Even quisling Hollanders resented the theft of the greatest collection of ants in the world."
Dr. Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on...
Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's...