Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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*"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...
When a young Nazi disappears from a Prague restaurant washroom, 26 Czech hostages are jailed. Though the coroner's verdict is suicide, none of the hostages is released. Reason: one of them (Oscar Homolka), a Czech collaborationist, has investments which Nazi officials want. The magnate's daughter (Miss...
The plot of Hostages is complicated but it never turns into plot for plot's sake. Every new twist flashes a facet of the Nazi, quisling or underground political mind. These facets would flash brighter if all the characters were more incisive and the scenes moved faster.
From exile-in France, then England, finally the U.S.-Carlo Sforza crusaded against Benito Mussolini ("a demagogue, a charlatan, a cheap egocentric, a quisling of Hitler") and Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical...
> Yugoslavia, through which the Vardar courses, was still a major German worry in the Balkans. Puppet Croatia was in turmoil: desertions mounted in her puppet army, and her politicians sought a safe way from the German camp. Russian sources reported that the Partisans had seized a stretch of the Dalmatian...