Evening star., 1943-05-16

Worm Muller has been able to fully doc
ument. One of his early associates, who
had hidden him in the days when he was
on the run, had him arrested for seducing
his daughter, but he got out of the mess
when the controlled court ruled that
neither the girl herself nor her parents
were competent to testify since they were
all aggrieved parties"
The "underfed bookkeeper" rose higher
and higher as Nazi fortunes improved
DR.. Worm-Muler's record is story of
betrayal of friend after friend, of bald
faced stealing, of murder. Perhaps the
climax Of this phase of his career came
In 1888 when the 35-year old Terbosen
married Goebels private secretary, a
rich girl. Both Hitler and Goering were
attendants at the wedding. 1t took place
in Essens thousand year old cathedral.
| All the church bells in the city rang as
| the couple walked down the aisle. School
| girls in white dresses lined the chief
streets of the city along which the bridal
| party rode.
Hitler's wedding present was to make
| Terbosen 'ober- president of the Rhine
| province, which includes Essen. He rem
| dered invaluable service. Just two nights
| before the crossing of the Rhine. der
| Fuehrer's first act of force, the ober-
| president served an elaborate banquet to
81 consuls OF European powers in Essen.
| They had started to ask embarrassing
| questions about the object of certain
| military preparations. Terbosen made an
eloquent speech on the Nazi policy OF
| pacif1sm which, together with his hos
| pitality, disarmed suspicion.
| His next big advance was when he
| became administrator of the seized
| Thyssen steel works. He Incorporated
| 1t into the great amalgamation of Ger
man industry, the Hermannsgoering-
| Werke, and is still one of the directors at
salary of 100000 marks a year-one
of his minor jobs. Before he came to
| Norway he had luxury villa in the
Ruhr Valley, a palace" in Cobentz and
| fine town house in Berlin. But when
he came to Norway he naturally looked
| for better things. He first settled down
| at Bygdo Kronsgard, the Kings country
| home just outside Oslo. But he COM
| planned that the house was too old, not
| luxuriously furnished, and not big
enough. Skaugum was bigger and more
| modern.
Night-long Drinking Bouts.
One of his first acts was to build a
| big movie theater and to clear the big
| tennis hall for his drinking bouts There
| is dancing, drinking and revelry all night
| long. The parties usually are attended
| entirely by men of Terbosens own or
| ganization, a few Norwegian "Quislings"
who have been admitted to the inner
circle. and imported girls. Quisling him.
self never attends. He is not the sort of
| companion even Terbosen can endure.
The reichskommisar is weak, ratty-
looking man, say Norwegians here who
have encountered him, and apparently
is sensitive about it. He never appears
in public and seldom grants audiences
to Norwegians at his Oslo headquarters.
When he does he sits in regal grandeur
on dais near window with arranged
lighting effects to show him to the best
advantage and visitor never is al
lowed to approach closer than about 7
yards away.
The mans capacity for whisky has
become legendary throughout Norway.
He can put away a couple of quarts a
day and hardly show the effects of it..
they say, and it does not seem to effect
the keenness of his brain for all sorts
of skullduggery. Hitler is alleged to
have demonstrated with him over his
intemperance, but he is too valuable a
servant to be dealt with too rudely for
mere pecadillos.
The mans major job has been to loot
Norway. Directly under him is the
gestapo, with its headquarters in the
old Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building
on Victoria terrace overlooking Oslo's
harbor. There his agents indulge their
sadism by horrible tortures, as described
by a Norwegian who has just come here.
Il was taken to the guardroom, the
waiting room to hell" he says. ''On