Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A new application blank-a new attempt at corruption-went last week to the schoolteachers of Norway, inviting them to sign up with the Quisling Teachers Union, or Laerersamband. The Laerersamband has had everything but members. The new blanks were coaxers. "Providing political propaganda or similar work in conflict with...
Like the unbreakable clergy of their country, they have earned a conspicuous place in the anti-Nazi Book of Martyrs. Three months later the fight began in earnest. Quisling ordered all pupils between ten and 16 to join the Nazi Youth Movement, all teachers to join the Laerersamband.
While their pupils were clubbed in schoolrooms by storm troopers, about 98% of Norway's teachers refused to sign up with the Quisling Union. Quisling closed the schools for a month. When that failed, he gave the go-ahead to the Gestapo. Arrests in Norway totaled around 2,000...
The Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to...
The pastors resignation was much more than a moral protest. It meant that they gave up comfortable incomes for their convictions-for in Norway, as in Germany, the State pays clerical salaries, as well as the cost of church administration, church building and church repairs. Now Quisling will pay only...