Evening star., 1942-06-10
Norwegian Patriots
Suffer Martyrdom
Under Nazi Yoke
Opponents Of Germans
Stond Firm Despite
Firing Squads
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER,
Wide World,

FIRING Squoos
BY LOUIS P. LoCHNER,
Wide World.
NEW YORK, June 10.-To be q
patriot in Norway nowadays means
martyrdom.
There is virtual civil war in the
Gerhaan-occupied country. and the
Quislings not only hold all the jobs
but also have the protection of the
Nazi Gestapo.
Nevertheless, the patriots con-
tinue to stand by their guns. Story
after story of personal courage,
of passive resistance to Quisling
stooges, of manly facing of firing
squads trickled into Germany from
Norway.
Executions are the order of the
day for helping others to make q
getaway to England, or even for
young Norwegians themselves at
tempting to escape to Britain.
One electrician and one attorney
were executed for participating in
q secret meeting Two men were
shot for revealing military secrets
and possessing arms Illegally" At
Trondheim four citizens were con-
demned to death for listening to
foreign radio stations and spread
ing the news they heard. = And
so on.
Toll Of Lives Unknown.
Not until the close of the war,
perhaps, will the world know how
many Norwegians have given their
lives because they refused to accept
Nazsm and Quislingism.
The Lutheran Bishop of Oslo and
his six fellow bishops in other parts
of the country resigned in protest
against the Quisling regime. Spe-
cif1cally, they objected to- the as
sault on the Dean of Trondheim,
Fiellbu, whom a mob of Quislingites
prevented from delivering his usual
Sunday sermon.
Some 5000 teachers in individual
letters resigned in March from the
teachers federation when it came
under Quisling control. thereby risk
inng cancellation of their pensions,
or rights to pensions, and being
drafted for compulsory labor.
The rector of Oslo University, DR..
Seip, was carried off to concen-
tration camp and put in solitary.
For "a days in the Grini camp he
sat in darkness, living on bread and
water.
So dido also Einar Gerharisen,
chairman of the Norwegian Labor
party, according to reliable informa-
ton received by the Zurcher Zeitung
of Zurich, Switzerland. Gerharlsens
crime" consisted in distributing In
ternee rations too literally to his
fellow prisoners.
Camps Are Overcrowded.
The Swiss paper reported the con-
centration camps of Norway gen.
orally overcrowded. In one Of them
was one of II judges OF the Norwe-
gian Supreme Court who led the
protest of the Supreme Court early
this year against the Quisling-ap-
pointed department OF Justices
naming all jury members without
consulting the Supreme Court. His
16 colleagues thereupon resigned and
were replaced by Quislins hench-
men.
All these measures have not been
able to prevent acts of sabotage and
other evidence of the populace's dis
agreement with Quislingism.
Even as Quisling was taking Of
fee as would-be dictator February
!, some one cut the electric wires
during the parade of his followers
before the Grand Hotel, so that the
reviewing party, which only a few
moments previously had been flood
lighted when it appeared on the bal
cony of the hotel, was shrouded in
darkness.
Two days later there was a fire
In the famed national theater. In
the main university building bomb
exploded. There were explosions in
both railway stations of the Nor
wegian capital. A dud landed on
the Storting CParliamenD Building.
One of the great rubber factories
at Askim, a motor factory in Bergen
and the docks at LakeSvag were
set af1ame by unknown saboteurS.
Quisling Lost All Chances.
Cocrot 1ittla poucpopore Spro,,fed
up. Illegal wireless stations started
to broadcast facts unwelcome to the
Quisling administration.
If Quisling ever had chance OF
gradually winning the esteem of the
Norwegian people despite his bad
start, he lost it when, in his in
augural address as Hitler-appointed
Premier of Norway, he declared
Norway could not be free, SOW
ereign and Independent state, but
must permanently accept German
control.
Meanwhile Norway is paying a
heavy price for German occupation.
Norwegian circles in Stockholm,
according to the Zuercher Zeitupg
claim that the occupation costs
until the middle of January totaled
3.9 billion Norwegian crowns (about
$4,000 900 at pre-occupation ex-
change ratesD
This money was used not only for
occupation costs, but also for COM
pleting and improving the German
military establishment in Norway,
for constructing German fleet and
air bases and for building electro
chemical and metallurgical plants
which Germany expects to control.
War bonds make bOmbers to bomb
the Axis and lower our taxes. Why