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German patience, Adolf Hitler is fond of reminding the world, is parceled out in limited quantities. Last week the share allotted to Norway ran out. Taking to the radio in Oslo, Reich Commissioner to Norway Josef Terboven announced the end of Norway's Monarchy and Parliament, the dissolution of all political parties except Major Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling (National Union...
...Government you yourself elected," hate for Adolf Hitler and his supporters, death for all quislings and any who consort with them. With a spunky show of defiance 149 out of 150 Norwegian Deputies banded together in what they called an Anti-Quisling Front. Norwegian wits shortened the Reich Commissioner's surname by a syllable, began calling him Boven (Norse for thief...
...because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face and into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent group in the Third Reich. For by winning or losing the war, it is still the generals who will finally decide the fate of their goose-stepping Caesars and most of mankind...
...Adolf Hitler had observed the first anniversary by incorporating all of German-occupied Poland in the Reich. "The swastika will fly over this land forever," proclaimed Governor General Hans Frank. The name Poland was ordered purged from the German vocabulary...
...unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little people who mainly populate the earth, his deep, constantly iterated, constantly irritated concern for his integrity as man and artist. Above all, there is Thomas Wolfe's cosmic sense of Thomas Wolfe...