Word: trondheim
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...navies of the United Nations, convoying, fighting subs, mixing in swirling battles with the Jap in the Indian Ocean, watching a hundred naval rat holes from Trondheim to Surabaya, this concentration of the German surface fleet had a sinister look...
Under the towering, snow-swatched cliff in conquered Norway's Trondheim Fjord the Tirpitz lay, 35,000 tons or more of naval might. No R.A.F. bomb or torpedo had yet shaken...
...British ships cruised in the swirling snowstorms and heavy mists of the North Sea, or crouched before Trondheim against the smash the Germans might make from Trondheim and Helgoland against the long artery to Murmansk and the Russian front...
When Norwegians were forbidden to attend a service at Trondheim Cathedral in February, thousands gathered outside the church in the bitter cold. "It was not an unruly mob," said one participant, "but thousands of Christians. We stood outside the cathedral, prevented by police from entering God's house. We were freezing but we could not leave the place. We had to find expression for what we felt. We were silent. Then I heard a voice start Luther's old hymn, A Mighty Fortress is Our God. We all sang and as we stood facing the police...
London speculated upon both possibilities, and on still another. Perhaps the Nazis were simply getting set to ward off any Allied attempt on Norway. Although the Nazis have fortified key points from Trondheim south, northern Norway is far from impregnable. Last week, while Nazi Munitions Minister Albert Speer, successor to the late Masterbuilder Major General Fritz Todt (TIME, Feb. 16), sped work on defenses to the north, the Norwegians were tripping and clipping him with sabotage. One highly effective means was the touching off of fires in plants housing vital Nazi war industries...