The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-15


Of the population. The other 90
per cent were kept quiescent
with guns and truncheons of the
storm troopers and the threat Of
German courts-martial.
Up-to-date, Terboven has or
dered or approved more than 100
summary executions of Norweg-
ian patriots, while some 5000
others are being held in Jail or
in one of Is concentration
Camps. This spring saw a typical
example of the Terboven terror,
which not only has failed to cow
the Norwegians. but has spark
ed open revolt and widespread
sabotage. On April 26, a Gestapo
posse discovered two Norwegian
patriots who had clandestinely
returned from Britain and were
passing the night In the village
Of Televaag, near Bergen. In the
melee that followed, two Ger
mans as we'll as the two Nor
wegians were killed.
Furious, Terboven ordered ID
hostages, who had been held for
several months in the Grini con-
centration camp, shot. Then, un-
der his personal direction, the
entire village of Televaag was
wiped out. It's 70 houses were
burned to the ground, all men
under go were deported to Ger
many, the women and children
were informed. 1t was Lidice in
miniature.
All this was simply the evil
Towering of character that had
long thrived on crime and cru
city. Born in Essen "A years ago,
TerbOven grew into a youth de-
termined never to 60 anywhere
the hard way of honest en-
deavor. After losing various
jobs, he joined up, like many
other young toughs, with one of
the illegal military organizations
that mush-roomed in Ger
many in the hard years after the
first World War.
This outfit gave him a sound
apprenticeship in hoodlumism
and political murder, well-qual-
flying him for the next step
membership, in 1924, in the ris-
ing Nazi party.
A born intriguer, Terboven
soon was on his way up. He
gained reputation that, even
then, offended the nostrils of his
decidedly unsqueamish fellows.
Undoubtedly part of it was his
extra-party profession that
of gigolo, catering to rich, eld-
erly ladies.
One of these gave him the
the chance to meet some of Ger
many's leading industrialists.
Terboven seized this opening,
and was largely instrumental in
lining up for Hitler financial
support of industrial big shots.
including such as Krupp, Thys-
sen, Kirdorf and Wolff. This did
Terboven no harm with Hitler,
and the Feuhrer and the Gigolo,
and the Fuehrer and the Gigolo,
literally, became thick as
SOON BECAME
A WEALTHY MAN
Terboven went up the ladder,
in power and riches, and, with
the parvenu's love for pomp,
wallowed in luxury and licen-
tiousness. He has a magnificent
villa in Essen, a palatial resi-
dence in Coblenz and a large
apartment house in Berlin.
1t was with habits grown. more
absolute and manners more
over-bearing, that he took over
in occupied Norway. Wherever
he lived, wild orgies took place,
the slightest regard for
his Norwegian neighbors.
On New Years Day, 1912,
Oslo was overjoyed when ru-
mors spread that he had been
killed during the nights revels.
Someone reported having seen
Terboven's body carried from
the Grand Hotel after the year.
end orgy. But Joy turned to
gloom when Norwegians learn
ed that the Reich Commissioners
wasn't dead. but merely dead
Norwegians say he will be
lucky to die in good time, as did |
Hevdrich NaZi scOurge !