Word: trondheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quislingite Bishop Einar Lothe of Trondheim, Norway has suffered a nervous breakdown and asked permission to retire. Reasons: for months Bishop Lothe has been treated with "icy disdain" by the townspeople; his congregation in Trondheim Cathedral, where he preaches in uniform, has dwindled to a mere handful; soon after he gets on a crowded streetcar he often finds himself the sole occupant...
...explosion wrecked the Göring-operated Fosdalen Iron Mines. A 400-mile strip of central Norway, including Trondheim and Skien, the home of Henrik Ibsen, was promptly placed under martial law. The Nazis rushed 25,000 troops to the coast and other danger points. In a floodlit courtyard in Trondheim, six blackshirted SS men shot 25 hostages picked haphazardly from civic leaders. North of Trondheim the Nazis also turned on their own troops, executed one in every seven of 1,000 men who had mutinied...
...killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice and voles broke out in 1917, ravaged crops so badly that they materially contributed to the nation's final collapse...
...Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
Nazi bombers will inevitably redouble their efforts to choke off Russia's supplies. And coupled with the sky prowlers is an even greater menace from conquered Norwegian territory. At Trondheim lurk five Nazi men o' war, their snouts pointed ominously at Russia's sorely needed northern supply line...