Word: trondheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 76, saved his life by fighting the icy sea off Trondheim when the Norwegian flying boat he was on crashed; 19 of the 45 passengers died. After swimming around until rescued, Russell said: "I don't suppose I was swimming for more than about a minute. For one who has been swimming regularly for about 70 years, it wasn't much...
...main defense positions in Europe. The ultimate, the rock-bottom defense position, is contained within the triangle Scapa Flow-Trondheim-Calais, backed against Great Britain...
...News. Near Trondheim, Norway, Vassilij Rambovski, a Russian soldier, who had been holed up since escaping from a Nazi prison in 1944, learned to his delight that the war was over...
...people in Norway thought that Arne Fjellbu had the stuff of a hero or a martyr. The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing. No one thought, when the Nazis first came, that he would ever defy them...
...Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral. Inside, preaching to a handful of quislingites, a puppet pastor was shouting the praises of his leader. The people in the street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs...