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Mohandas K. Gandhi, who said this, had few followers in Occupied Europe last week. But Josef Terboven, "protector" of Norway, had many Nazis who agreed with him when he said...
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...
Gauleiter Josef Terboven announced that Norway was hereafter in a "state of emergency." This decree empowered him to pass sentences of death "to preserve public order." All radios in the coastal regions nearest Britain were ordered delivered to the German authorities. Herr Terboven rumbled ominously that Norway had reached a "decisive phase...
Last week Major Quisling and his Party were in little better case than their unfortunate countrymen. As German officials moved in, Nazi Commissioner Josef Terboven issued a decree divorcing the Samling and the State, provided that in the future the Party should pay its own way, even declared that Quisling's Storm Troopers should dig down for their own railway fares. The Nazis also demanded that the Samling pay back 500,000 kroner ($115,000) taken from the State treasury for Party...
...Germany has tried to persuade Norwegians to put the yoke around their own necks, produce a Nazi-run Government of their own. But Norway turned stubborn at every turn. First efforts were directed at King Haakon, but he refused to abdicate. Then pressure was turned on the Storting (Parliament). Terboven demanded the deposition of Haakon by parliamentary decree, delegation of power to a Riksraad (National Council) willing to cooperate with Germany. To lend ideological coloring Nazi mystagogue Dr. Alfred Rosenberg turned out a neat phrase, embracing Norway, Sweden and Denmark in a Nazi "Community of Fate" (TIME, July...