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Died. Eivind Berggrav, 74, retired Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church (TIME Cover. Dec. 25. 1944), spiritual leader of World War 11 resistance against Vidkun Quisling and the Nazis, formerly a president of the World Council of Churches; in Oslo...
...embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife was an outright Nazi sympathizer, and Hamsun himself fell for the Hitler line. When Germany conquered Norway, he told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and all neutrals." He supported Vidkun Quisling, and in 1943 visited Hitler...
Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Quisling was awakened at 2 a.m. and hurried from his cell to a square in Oslo's somber Akershus Fortress. Awaiting him were a clergyman, a state prosecutor and a firing squad, an officer and ten men. No photographers, no reporters recorded his last abasement or his last heroics...
...only war trials so far have been conducted by national courts, like the Norwegian tribunal which sentenced Vidkun Quisling. The first international trials will begin at Nürnberg late this month, when 23 top-drawer German defendants are brought to bar. A checklist of some of those already judged by national courts...