Evening star., 1942-10-06
Danes FIotIy Reject
Hitler Demand for
Reich Union
BY the Associated Press.

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OF revolt by ce-free men of
scandinavia against Nazi over
lordship was reported TODAY in
news dispatches and broadcasts
telling OF a state of civil emer-
gency in the important Norwe-
glan coastal district of Trond-
helm and of Denmark's struggle
TO escape total engulfment in
the Reich.
lneSe reports and recent hints of
peace feelers by Finland plus Ger
man dissatisfaction with the politi-
cal course of Sweden projected a
broad picture of weakening Ger
man grip in the north.
AL least part of the rising on
position stemmed apparently from
scheme under which Hitler was
reported planning to proclaim a
Greater Germany" that would in
clude Holland, Denmark and Nor
way.
The Free Danish Council in Lon
oon declared that Denmark already
mad received and rejected a demand
Tor voluntary incorporation" into
oloc OF model states as a showpiece
Tor Hitler's new order.
Gestapo Rule Threatened.
The council, representing Danish
group functioning independently of
the Copenhagen government said
the Germans had threatened that
unless Denmark came into the bloc.
the country would be taken over and
run by the Gestapo.
Stockholm dispatches to Bern said
the report that Holland, Denmark
and Norway were to be drawn into
Greater Germany were distinctly lin
the category of rumors," but at
tributed to them much of the recent
unrest in Norway and Denmark.
Swedish dispatches recalled that
Hitler declared in his latest speech
that no bourgeois state would sur
vive the war.
The latest outbreaks in Norway
centered apparently in the Trond-
helm area, 200 miles below the Arctic
Circle.
German broadcasts said the state
Of civil emergency decreed there en-
braced large sections of two sur
rounding provinces as well as the
great Trondheim port region.
Sabotage Attempts Charged.
The emergency was proclaimed,
Berlin broadcasts said, because of
recent sabotage attempts which, if
they had succeeded, would have en-
dangered Norway's supply system"
The Berlin radio broadcast DNB
dispatch from Oslo which quoted
Josef Terboven, German commissar
for Norway. as saying the order was
nothing but justified German re-
action to criminal acts committed by
Norwegian radicals"
Another German broadcast heard
In London said the emergency de-
cree was accompanied by declara-
ton that anti-German outbreaks
will be broken by force of arms"
A Reuters dispatch from Stock
holm quoted Swedish press reports
yesterday that 5000 to 1000 German
soldiers had been imprisoned for a
mutiny at Alta in far Northern
Norway, and that II officers had.
been cashiered and 43 soldiers SEN
fenced to death.
Germans AstOnished.
German broadcasts took an at
titude of official astonishment at
Denmark'S attitude.
Strict reserve is shown by COM
petent German circles in comment
ing on rumors current abroad to the
effect that the situation in Denmark
had become tense" said one DNB
dispatch broadcast from Berlin.
"It is pointed out, however" the
dispatch added, that the situation
there is not quite as might be ex-
pected in view of the extremely cor
rect attitude shown by all German
authorities in Denmark. 49,.
Certain Danish circles seem to
have mistaken this German attitude
as a sign of weakness and to have
tried to take advantage OF 1t.
Bad Impression in Germany.
"In this connection the Wilhelm
strasse limited at several instances
which were confirmed by eyewit-
nesses and which allowed conclu-
sions as to the narroW-mlnded and
mistaken way in which the situation
is Judged by some people in Den
mark"
The broadcast said that specific
ally "a very bad impression was
made in Germany by the irony and
even contempt with which Danish
volunteers who risked their lives
lighting Bolshevism were greeted on
their return home"
Reports reaching London said the
Danes we're aroused by the "arro-
gance and disorder" of the Danish
Free Corps of some 600 members
when it returned from the Russian