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Last week Heinrich Himmler, the man who had cleaned up Vienna, Warsaw and Paris for Hitler, arrived in Oslo and informed Norway it could hope for no freedom even after a German victory. The Reich was going to use Norway to supply and hydroelectrify greater Germany. The present Nazi garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: The Terror Begins | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

A better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: The Terror Begins | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

A specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: The Terror Begins | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Almost daily Cousin Joe's colloquial, salty editorials clamored for "a new declaration of independence" from Britain; daily he labeled H.R. 1776 the "Dictatorship Bill." Cousin Bertie McCormick was free to concentrate his main fulminations against Willkie's "treachery," reading him out of the Republican Party as "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All in the Family | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

In Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Militant | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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