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Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional cooling off period, the hours when the weak collapse through fear, but the strong steel themselves for the coming ordeal. His Gestapomen went to work immediately with clubs, pipe-lengths, supple whips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Judas in Oslo | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued to splash along the Moellergaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Judas in Oslo | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

When sadistic Gestapoman Kurt Rediess suppressed Oslo University last December, sending all male students who could not prove themselves good quislings to German concentration camps, he ruptured upwards of 1,000 homes. Last week some of those homes received their first news of missing sons,: a printed form from Oranienburg, reporting the death of the student, offering to ship the ashes for 75 crowns (prewar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Postscript | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Because of the strike Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven decreed a state of emergency and clamped Oslo under martial law. Oslo's German police chief, Wilhelm Rediess, implemented the declaration by authorizing death penalties, confiscation of property. Oslo was placed under a 7 o'clock curfew, transportation was stopped after that hour, public meetings were prohibited, wireless sets seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations dissolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Norway Starts Something | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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