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Died. Johan Nygaardsvold, 72, Norway's Premier in exile during World War II; in Trondheim. Scorning demands of unconditional surrender when the Germans invaded his country in 1940, he turned 80% of the Norwegian fleet over to the Allies, organized last-ditch resistance until, barely escaping Germans and Quislings, he fled to England...
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...