DOCSLIB.ORG

About Odd Nansen

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
About Odd Nansen Odd Nansen and His The writings of Odd Nansen, June 1945: Odd nansen is reunited with his family son of Norway’s beloved statesman, after WWII. chronicle an important chapter in WWII history. By Timothy J. Boyce ost Norwegian-Americans know of Fridtjof Nansen—polar explorer, statesman and M humanitarian. His memory and achievements are widely celebrated in Norway, as attested by the October 2011 sesquicentennial celebration of his birth. But far fewer in America know about the remarkable y L life and achievements of his son, Odd Nansen, and in i M FA s particular his World War II diary, “From Day to Day.” ’ Odd Nansen, the fourth of five children of Fridtjof NANSEN and Eva Nansen, was born in 1901. He received a f ODD f O degree in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of esy rt u Technology (NTH), and from 1927 to 1930 lived and O PH c PH a worked in New York City. His father’s failing health R g brought Odd back to Norway, and after Fridtjof’s death PHOTO in May 1930 Nansen decided to remain. Following in 16 Viking May 2013 sonsofnorway.com sonsofnorway.com Viking May 2013 17 Nansen never intended to publish the diary, Fridtjof’s humanitarian secret diary, recording his From Day to Day Norwegians arrested during His entries also reveal but wrote it simply as a way to communicate with footsteps, Odd Nansen experiences, hopes, dreams The diary, later published the war, almost 7,500 were the quiet strength, and his wife Kari, and as a means of sorting out his helped establish and fears. Nansen knew as “From Day to Day,” sent abroad, to Germany, sometimes ugly prejudices, Nansenhjelpen (Nansen that its discovery could lead spans three and a half years, France and Poland, many of his fellow Norwegian thoughts and impressions; it became, he wrote, Relief) in 1936 to assist to severe punishment— from Nansen’s initial arrest never to return. inmates, his constantly his “private manner of forgetting.” Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi or worse. Nevertheless and imprisonment in Grini With an unsparing eye frustrated hopes for an early persecution. This work, his his compulsion to write Prison, located outside Nansen recorded the casual end to the war, his longing survive, but to preserve to Kari under various his writing in light of the family’s close connection overcame his fears. “I must Oslo, to his experience as a brutality and random terror for his wife and children, his sanity and maintain subterfuges: slipped into a thorough searches every to the Royal family and his unburden my memory,” slave laborer in Kvænangen that was the fate of a camp and his horror at the his humanity in a world visitor’s pocket; hidden in incoming and outgoing vehement disagreements he recorded. Nansen never in Troms County, to his prisoner. A typical entry: “[A] especially barbaric treatment engulfed by fear and hate. the surrounding woods for prisoner faced. In a moment with Vidkun Quisling all intended to publish the diary, final eighteen months transport of prisoners reached reserved for the Jews. These And through it all he later pickup; Nansen even of inspiration, he realized led to his arrest by the but wrote it simply as a way in Sachsenhausen, a the camp. As usual they were latter were consigned to the wondered whether anyone bribed a German soldier that he could safely hide Nazis in early 1942. to communicate with his concentration camp north counted. ... There were two “trotting gang” in Grini, would “believe this when we to deliver a section directly his work in the hollowed- Nansen spent the wife Kari, and as a means of of Berlin, which by war’s men extra. ... And German and were forced to perform come to describe it.” In fact to Kari at home. En route out interior of the one item remainder of the war in sorting out his thoughts and end housed over 58,000 figuresmust and shall come all work at double time. Nansen was unsure he could to Kvænangen, Nansen routinely allowed to all concentration camps in impressions; it became, he prisoners from every right. A few revolver shots ... Jews were not allowed in adequately describe all that entrusted diary sections to prisoners—their breadboards. Norway and Germany. wrote, his “private manner country in Europe. Of the worked out the sum. ... The the hospital or infirmary, he saw and heard; it “was so complete strangers in hopes Upon liberation in April 1945 Through it all he kept a of forgetting.” approximately 40,000 two were carried away.” nor permitted to purchase horrible, so incomprehensible they would make it back by the Swedish Red Cross, tobacco, privileges accorded in ghastliness, that it defies to Kari. Once in Germany, Nansen and five friends even to criminals. all description.” however, Nansen needed spirited out his entire record The diary depicts Nansen’s Nansen initially smuggled to devise a more ingenious for the preceding eighteen daily struggle, not only to diary pages out of Grini method for preserving months, right under the noses n O sweden kills border i May 8 V-e Day, the allied military T 1939 ec 1944 1945 1946 n policeman; Jews are oll mission arrives in norway to O c isi T V September 1 germany invades blamed. With the ai June 6 D-Day, the allied invasion January 17 Thomas Buergenthal coordinate german capitulation Odd nansen is first director of s Di s ph portr Poland; start of WWII in europe shooting as a pretext, a of europe begins starts auschwitz Death March May 9 Quisling arrested norwegian aid to europe (now R D e g T i all Jewish men over M July 20 assassination attempt on February 16 nansen meets June 7 king Haakon VII returns norwegian Refugee council) January, 1945: Norwegian hoto P es Li es 1933 D right-wing leader Vidkun age 15 are arrested M adolf Hitler Buergenthal to norway y Ti y s an s L 1940 T Quisling, left, meets January 30 adolf Hitler November 26 in March 20 nansen transported to June 10 Odd nansen returns to with Adolf Hitler. R & Week & 1950 appointed chancellor of germany April 9 german invasion first deportation of P ess neuengamme Prison, germany Oslo and is reunited with family R LD sachsenhausen Prison a R May 17 Vidkun Quisling founds of norway norwegian Jews to ng April 28 Odd nansen evacuated October 24 Quisling executed at Odd nansen visits germany on Co f T) He T) O ef y nasjonal samling June 9 norway surrenders; europe aboard SS R from neuengamme on White akershus castle behalf of UNESCO a br (TOP L (TOP (NS) Party king Haakon VII establishes Donau; most sent L Buses to Denmark, then sweden a government-in-exile in London immediately to gas chambers th April 30 Hitler commits suicide gen R at auschwitz Li (BOTTOM) 2 Veidal, kvænangen, norway Bue om .c om 1934 1942 R a H T) T T) ac ef 1941 H May 11 January 13 nansen arrested, Thomas Buergenthal born in June 12 grini Prison opened as sent to grini Prison .guys PRISONER OF (BOTTOM L (BOTTOM WWW , Roll call at grini Prison WAR JOURNEY L’ubochna, czechoslovakia a Polizeihäftlingslager (police February 1 Vidkun Quisling R AGES a M H i P ac detainee camp) installed as Minister-President a ) sH Grini, Bærum, norway HT 1 uy ig g June 22 Operation Barbarossa: August 5–November 22 R ) top 1936 top Hitler invades Russia nansen sent to Veidal camp f ( f f ( f O 1943 O esy July 12 construction of (kvænangen) to work on snow esy rt rt u u O sachsenhausen begins tunnels October 6 Odd nansen sent to O 4 Neuengamme, germany 3 Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, germany ages c ages Fall/Winter nansen forms October Border pilot attempting sachsenhausen in germany c ages M M i i Nansenhjelpen (nansen Relief) to help nine Jews escape to of their SS guards. In fact, despite all his travels and adventures over almost 40 months in prison, only one “ segment of the original diary failed to survive the war. Nansen’s Humanity n the words of William L. Shirer, Nansen’s diary is replete author of “The Rise and Fall of with examples of how I the Third Reich,” Odd Nansen’s he tried to help those diary stands as an eloquent testament less fortunate, and more to “how noble and generous the hu- vulnerable, than he. “It isn’t man spirit can be in the face of terrible well to be ‘well off’ among adversity.” It was a bestseller when it so many who are badly off. appeared in Norway, and was praised The only possible relief is Drawing of sachsenhausen Prison by Odd nansen following its U.S. publication in 1949 by to share the material goods G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Critics, including which are divided among us Shirer, called it “extraordinary,” “profoundly moving” and “the best realization . in either film or print so unequally and unjustly,” . of Nazi concentration camps.” The book has been out of print for over 60 years, and today is virtually he wrote. In the Darwinian impossible to find. Timothy J. Boyce, a member of Norsk Carolina 3-679, is currently editing “From Day to world of the camps, where Day” and hopes to see it republished in the near future. Thomas Buergenthal will contribute a preface to many looked out only for the revised edition. themselves, Nansen often shared a kind word, a willing ear, some clothes or an extra scrap of food.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Thomas Buergenthal Served As the United States Judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2000 to 2010
    Thomas Buergenthal served as the United States judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 2000 to 2010. Between 1979 and 1991, he was a judge and president of the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He was as judge and president of the Administrative Tribunal of the Inter-American Development Bank (1989-94); vice chairman of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. He also was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee; the UN Truth Commission for El Salvador; and the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee. From 1989 – 2000 and again from 2010 – 2016 Buergenthal was the Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law & Jurisprudence, George Washington University Law School. He served as Dean of the Washington College of Law of the American University from 1980-1985. His other academic posts included: Professor of Law, State University of N.Y. (Buffalo) Law School; Fulbright & Jaworski Professor, University of Texas Law School; I.T. Cohen Professor, Emory University Law School. While at Emory, he also served as the Director of the Human Rights Program of the Carter Center. Buergenthal earned the following academic degrees: B.A. (1957), Bethany College, West Virginia; J.D. (1960), New York University Law School (Root- Tilden Scholar); LL.M. (1961) and S.J.D (1968), Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of the following honorary degrees: Bethany College, 1981; University of Heidelberg, 1986; Free University of Brussels (V.U.B), 1994; State University of New York (Buffalo), 2000; American University (Washington, D.C.), 2002; University of Minnesota, 2003; George Washington University, 2004; University of Göttingen, 2007; New York University, 2008; St.
    [Show full text]
  • ARKIV: Hele Byens Hukommelse HELE BYENS HUKOMMELSE Tobias Hilde Barstad, Direktør I Kulturetaten
    TIDSSKRIFT FOR OSLOHISTORIE 2015 tobias PRIVAT- ARKIV: Hele byens hukommelse HELE BYENS HUKOMMELSE tobias Hilde Barstad, direktør i Kulturetaten Gjennom hele livet setter vi mennesker spor etter oss, i møte med det offentlige, med privat sektor som organisasjoner, bedrifter eller private institusjoner, og i helt personlige dokumenter. I det offentlige blir slike spor gjerne varige i form av arkiver, mens privat sektor setter lite spor i arkivene. Men samfunnsutviklingen skjer i et samspill mellom offentlig og privat TOBIAS er Oslo byarkivs eget sektor, og privatarkiv er derfor viktig for å dokumentere hele samfunnet. fagtidsskrift om oslohistorie, De private arkivene trengs! arkiv og arkivdanning. I dag er vernet av privatarkiv for svakt. Det blir spesielt tydelig når det Tidsskriftet presenterer viktige, private utfører tjenester for det offentlige. Når kommunen plasserer barn på nytenkende og spennende en kommunal barnevernsinstitusjon, stiller loven krav om at oppholdet skal artikler, og løfter fram godbiter dokumenteres. Men om kommunen plasserer barnet på en privat barne - fra det rike kildematerialet i vernsinstitusjon, stiller ikke loven like strenge krav, og det kan være tilfeldig Byarkivet. Navnet Tobias hvilken dokumentasjon som blir tatt vare på. Det kan gi svært ulike vilkår for kommer fra den tiden da By- barn som i ettertid vil finne ut av sin egen historie. arkivet holdt til i ett av rådhus- Byarkivets oppgave er å bevare arkiver som tilsammen gir et helhetlig tårnene og fikk kallenavn etter bilde av samfunnet. Vi samler derfor inn også private arkiver i Oslo. Bare Tobias i tårnet fra Torbjørn slik kan vi sikre at vi er hele byens hukommelse.
    [Show full text]
  • April 2021 Volume 46 No
    mars og april 2021 Volume 46 No. 2 Fosselyngen Lodge No. 5-082, Sons of Norway PO Box 20957, Milwaukee, WI 53220 FOSSELYNGEN LODGE – CALENDAR OF EVENTS For each of the following Zoom meetings, an email with the Zoom invitation will be sent approximately three days before the meeting. If you do not receive an invitation and want to join us, please contact Sue at 414-526-8312 or [email protected] . MARCH 8 Monday Virtual Lodge Social Meeting & Program for All Members via Zoom @ 7PM. Program: “Coming Home”: Documentary Video About Kayaking on Fjords In Norway We will see the 25 minute documentary, “Coming Home”, by adventurer-author- speaker David Ellingson, about his one month kayak adventure on the Sogne and Hardanger Fjords in Norway. David will join our Zoom meeting to answer our questions. David will also talk about his book, “Paddle Pilgrim: Kayaking the Fjords of Norway.” APRIL 12 Monday Virtual Lodge Social Meeting & Program for All Members via Zoom @ 7PM. Program: Presentation via Zoom by Timothy Boyce About Odd Nansen’s . Secret Diary Written in a World War II Concentration Camp See a more detailed description of the program on Page 3. MAY 10 Monday Virtual Lodge Meeting for All Members via Zoom @ 7PM. Put on your calendar. See May/June 2021 Runespeak for details. Contents of This Issue: Pg. 1: Calendar of Events; Table of Contents Pg. 2: President’s Report; Officers Pg. 3: April 12th Program by Timothy Boyce RE: Odd Nansen; Story of Nina Hasvoll; Mr. Boyce’s Blog Pg. 4: Sympathy; King Harold’s 84th Birthday; 7 Nordic-Inspired Ways to Celebrate Spring Pg.
    [Show full text]
  • The German-American Bund: Fifth Column Or
    -41 THE GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND: FIFTH COLUMN OR DEUTSCHTUM? THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By James E. Geels, B. A. Denton, Texas August, 1975 Geels, James E., The German-American Bund: Fifth Column or Deutschtum? Master of Arts (History), August, 1975, 183 pp., bibliography, 140 titles. Although the German-American Bund received extensive press coverage during its existence and monographs of American politics in the 1930's refer to the Bund's activities, there has been no thorough examination of the charge that the Bund was a fifth column organization responsible to German authorities. This six-chapter study traces the Bund's history with an emphasis on determining the motivation of Bundists and the nature of the relationship between the Bund and the Third Reich. The conclusions are twofold. First, the Third Reich repeatedly discouraged the Bundists and attempted to dissociate itself from the Bund. Second, the Bund's commitment to Deutschtum through its endeavors to assist the German nation and the Third Reich contributed to American hatred of National Socialism. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Page I. INTRODUCTION... ....... 1 II. DEUTSCHTUM.. ......... 14 III. ORIGIN AND IMAGE OF THE GERMAN- ... .50 AMERICAN BUND............ IV. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BUND AND THE THIRD REICH....... 82 V. INVESTIGATION OF THE BUND. 121 VI. CONCLUSION.. ......... 161 APPENDIX....... .............. ..... 170 BIBLIOGRAPHY......... ...........
    [Show full text]
  • THE POLISH POLICE Collaboration in the Holocaust
    THE POLISH POLICE Collaboration in the Holocaust Jan Grabowski The Polish Police Collaboration in the Holocaust Jan Grabowski INA LEVINE ANNUAL LECTURE NOVEMBER 17, 2016 The assertions, opinions, and conclusions in this occasional paper are those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. First printing, April 2017 Copyright © 2017 by Jan Grabowski THE INA LEVINE ANNUAL LECTURE, endowed by the William S. and Ina Levine Foundation of Phoenix, Arizona, enables the Center to bring a distinguished scholar to the Museum each year to conduct innovative research on the Holocaust and to disseminate this work to the American public. Wrong Memory Codes? The Polish “Blue” Police and Collaboration in the Holocaust In 2016, seventy-one years after the end of World War II, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs disseminated a long list of “wrong memory codes” (błędne kody pamięci), or expressions that “falsify the role of Poland during World War II” and that are to be reported to the nearest Polish diplomat for further action. Sadly—and not by chance—the list elaborated by the enterprising humanists at the Polish Foreign Ministry includes for the most part expressions linked to the Holocaust. On the long list of these “wrong memory codes,” which they aspire to expunge from historical narrative, one finds, among others: “Polish genocide,” “Polish war crimes,” “Polish mass murders,” “Polish internment camps,” “Polish work camps,” and—most important for the purposes of this text—“Polish participation in the Holocaust.” The issue of “wrong memory codes” will from time to time reappear in this study.
    [Show full text]
  • Krigen Mot Ryssarna I Vin­ Också En Utmarkelse Av Den Fin­ Det Er Imidlertid Tre Artikler Om Program.» Kultur
    Stiftelsen norsk Okkupasjonshistorie, 2014 UAVHENGIG AVIS Nr.6 - 1992 - 41. årgang Finsk godgjøreIse KULTUR ER BASISVARE, til utenlandske IKHESTORMARKEDPRODUKT Jeg har skummet dagens A v Frederik Skaubo med overskrift: Rambo eller krigsdeltagere Morgenblad og bl.a. merket Rimbaud? hvor han angriper Efter 50 år får de svenska sol­ ersattning på knappt 1.500 kro­ meg datoen, 8. mai, som jo så selv om avskaffelse av familien det syn at staten (myndighe­ dater som frivilligt hjiilpte Fin­ nor får alla frivillige utlanningar absolutt gir grunn til ettertanke. var oppført på kommunistenes tene) også har noe ansvar for land i krigen mot ryssarna i vin­ också en utmarkelse av den fin­ Det er imidlertid tre artikler om program.» kultur. Han er såvisst ikke opp­ ter och fortsattningskriget 1939- ska staten. Ersattningen ar mera et annet viktig emne, jeg her fes­ Et fenomen idag er f.eks. at tatt av kultur som identitets­ 45 ekonomisk ersattning. en symbolisk gest av Finland tet meg ved. Hver for seg avkla­ mens Høyre med pondus pro­ fremmende, tradisjonsbevaren­ Det var i samband med det som i år firar sitt 75-års jubi­ rende, tildels avslørende i for­ klamerer en politikk bygget på de, kvalitetsskapende og estetisk årliga firandet av veterandagen i leum. bindelse med vårt kultursyn. De «det kristne verdigrunnlag ... og etisk oppdragende. Nesten Finland som regeringen fattade Framfor allt fOr de ester som er dessuten aktuelle også når vil forholdet for de flestes ved­ mer anarkistisk enn liberal går beslut om att hedra de 5.000 frivilligt deltog i striderna på denne avis kommer ut.
    [Show full text]
  • Oath and Opposition: Education Under the Third Reich
    OATH AND OPPOSITION: EDUCATION UNDER THE THIRD REICH CASE STUDIES What Choices Were Possible? OATH AND OPPOSITION: EDUCATION UNDER THE THIRD REICH CASE STUDIES What Choices Were Possible? 2 Risking Her Life to Protect Her Students 5 Teachers Facilitate Sterilization of Students 9 Teachers Ask Students to Write Letters to Hitler 12 Arrest of Teachers Prompts Nationwide Protests 17 Survivors Recall Their Experiences at School 20 DISCUSSION GUIDE This resource is made possible through the generous support of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation. UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM WHAT CHOICES WERE POSSIBLE? During Nazi rule, a struggle to control education policy emerged between the Ministry of Education, the National Socialist Teachers League (NSLB), and the Hitler Jugend. These case studies feature both biographies and primary sources (photographs and documents). Their goals are to: Expand the lens through which we see this history. Identify and examine the challenges and pressures of education in Nazi-occupied Europe (1933–45). Examine classroom experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe (1933–45) to understand what choices were available. Challenge and complicate thinking about collaboration, complicity, and teachers’ role in Teachers and students from the Nos Petits school society today. in Brussels, Belgium. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Olivia Mathis Reflect on our own actions while considering the pressures that affected those who were complicit. UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 1 OATH AND OPPOSITION: EDUCATION UNDER THE THIRD REICH RISKING HER LIFE TO PROTECT HER STUDENTS JEANNE DAMAN was born into a Belgian Catholic family in 1919. When World War II began, she was a young Roman Catholic schoolteacher in Belgium.
    [Show full text]
  • Nasjonal Samlings Ideologiske Utvikling 1933- 1937
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives “Ja takk, begge deler” - en analyse av Nasjonal Samlings ideologiske utvikling 1933- 1937 Robin Sande Masteroppgave Institutt for statsvitenskap UNIVERSITETET I OSLO 12. desember 2008 1 Forord Arbeidet med denne oppgaven tok til i mars 2008. Ideen fikk jeg imidlertid under et utvekslingsopphold i Berlin vinteren 2007/08. Fagene ”Politische Theorie und Geschichte am Beispiel der Weimarer Republik” og ”Politische Philosophien im Kontext des Nationalsozialismus” gjorde meg oppmerksom på at Nasjonal Samling må ha vært noe mer enn bare vertskap for tyske invasjonsstyrker. Hans Fredrik Dahls eminente biografi om Quisling: En fører blir til, vekket interessen ytterligere. Oppgaven kunne selvfølgelig vært mye mer omfattende. Det foreligger uendelige mengder litteratur både om liberalistisk elitisme og spesielt fascisme. Nasjonal Samlings historie kunne også vært behandlet mye mer inngående dersom jeg hadde hatt tid til et mer omfattende kildesøk. Dette gjelder også persongalleriet i Nasjonal Samling som absolutt hadde fortjent både mer tid og plass. Fremtredende personer som Johan B.Hjorth, Halldis Neegård Østbye, Gulbrand Lunde og Hans S.Jacobsen kunne hver for seg utgjort en masteravhandling alene. En videre diskusjon av de dominerende ideologiske tendensene i Nasjonal Samling kunne også vært meget intressant. Hvordan fortsatte den ideologiske utviklingen etter 1937 og frem til krigen, og hvordan fremsto Nasjonal Samling ideologisk etter den tyske invasjonen? Desverre er dette spørsmål som jeg, eller noen andre, må ha til gode. For å levere oppgaven på normert tid har det vært nødvendig å begrense omfanget av oppgaven.
    [Show full text]
  • Council and Participants
    The American Law Institute OFFICERS * Roswell B. Perkins, President Edward T. Gignoux, 1st Vice President Charles Alan Wright, 2nd Vice President Bennett Boskey, Treasurer Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Director Paul A. Wolkin, Executive Vice President COUNCIL * Shirley S. Abrahamson Madison Wisconsin Philip S. Anderson Little Rock Arkansas Richard Sheppard Arnold Little Rock Arkansas Frederick A. Ballard Alexandria Virginia Bennett Boskey Washington District of Columbia Michael Boudin Washington District of Columbia Hugh Calkins Cleveland Ohio Gerhard Casper Chicago Illinois William T. Coleman, Jr. Washington District of Columbia Roger C. Cramton Ithaca New York Lloyd N. Cutler Washington District of Columbia R. Ammi Cutter** Cambridge Massachusetts William H. Erickson Denver Colorado Thomas E. Fairchild Madison Wisconsin Jefferson B. Fordham Salt Lake City Utah John P. Frank Phoenix Arizona George Clemon Freeman, Jr. Richmond Virginia Edward T. Gignoux Portland Maine Ruth Bader Ginsburg Washington District of Columbia Erwin N. Griswold Washington District of Columbia Conrad K. Harper New York New York Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. Greenville South Carolina Vester T. Hughes, Jr. Dallas Texas Joseph F. Johnston Birmingham Alabama Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Morristown New Jersey Herma Hill Kay Berkeley California Pierre N. Leval New York New York Edward Hirsch Levi Chicago Illinois Betsy Levin Washington District of Columbia Hans A. Linde Salem Oregon Martin Lipton New York New York *As of December 1, 1987 ** Chairman Emeritus OFFICERS AND COUNCIL Robert MacCrate New York New York Hale McCown Lincoln Nebraska Carl McGowan Washington District of Columbia Vincent L. McKusick Portland Maine Robert H. Mundheim Philadelphia Pennsylvania Roswell B. Perkins New York New York Ellen Ash Peters Hartford Connecticut Louis H.
    [Show full text]
  • Tyranny Could Not Quell Them
    ONE SHILLING , By Gene Sharp WITH 28 ILLUSTRATIONS , INCLUDING PRISON CAM ORIGINAL p DRAWINGS This pamphlet is issued by FOREWORD The Publications Committee of by Sigrid Lund ENE SHARP'S Peace News articles about the teachers' resistance in Norway are correct and G well-balanced, not exaggerating the heroism of the people involved, but showing them as quite human, and sometimes very uncertain in their reactions. They also give a right picture of the fact that the Norwegians were not pacifists and did not act out of a sure con­ viction about the way they had to go. Things hap­ pened in the way that they did because no other wa_v was open. On the other hand, when people acted, they The International Pacifist Weekly were steadfast and certain. Editorial and Publishing office: The fact that Quisling himself publicly stated that 3 Blackstock Road, London, N.4. the teachers' action had destroyed his plans is true, Tel: STAmford Hill 2262 and meant very much for further moves in the same Distribution office for U.S.A.: direction afterwards. 20 S. Twelfth Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. The action of the parents, only briefly mentioned in this pamphlet, had a very important influence. It IF YOU BELIEVE IN reached almost every home in the country and every­ FREEDOM, JUSTICE one reacted spontaneously to it. AND PEACE INTRODUCTION you should regularly HE Norwegian teachers' resistance is one of the read this stimulating most widely known incidents of the Nazi occu­ paper T pation of Norway. There is much tender feeling concerning it, not because it shows outstanding heroism Special postal ofler or particularly dramatic event§, but because it shows to new reuders what happens where a section of ordinary citizens, very few of whom aspire to be heroes or pioneers of 8 ~e~~ 2s .
    [Show full text]
  • Masarykova Univerzita Filozofická Fakulta Brno 2013
    Masarykova univerzita Filozofická fakulta Ústav germanistiky, nordistiky a nederlandistiky Eva Dohnálková Nansenhjelpens historie og aktiviteter. En norsk humanitær organisasjon i tsjekkisk perspektiv. Magisterská diplomová práce Vedoucí práce: doc. PhDr. Miluše Juříčková, CSc. Brno 2013 Prohlašuji, že jsem diplomovou práci vypracovala samostatně s využitím uvedených pramenů a literatury. …………………………………………….. Podpis autora práce 2 Innholdsliste 1 Innledning.............................................................................................................................4 1.1 Oppgavens utgangspunkt og problemstilling.....................................................................4 1.2 Avgrensning av oppgaven..................................................................................................5 1.3 Oppgavens oppbygging.....................................................................................................5 1.4 Kilder.................................................................................................................................6 2 Jøder i Norge........................................................................................................................7 2.1 Fra vikingtiden til året 1899...............................................................................................7 2.2 Fra 1900 til 1939 ...............................................................................................................9 2.2.1 Det jødiske barnehjemmet............................................................................................10
    [Show full text]
  • Vidkun Quisling Dies J for Betraying Norway
    ._ "Thi~upreme ~~~ tommend a reprieve . -Neither could Vidkun Quisling Dies j the- state prosecutor. King Rejects Appeal' "Quisling sent the king a letter In which he pointed out he was in- For Betraying Norway, nocent, but added he did not ask for a reprieve, To4ay; "Mrs . Quisling, however, request- Traitor Executed Firing Squad ed a reprieve on .behalf of` her hus- y band. In a cabinet meeting yester- iffs 'Plea For Ve ency day, the king rejected Mrs . Quis- King Rejects ling's petition for mercy and de- Oslo, Oct. 24.-(AP)-Vidkun Quisling, Norway's arch cided the sentence would be car- was sealed with the collapse last ried out. spring of his one support-German traitor, was executed by a firing squad .before dawn to-day, "Quisling's relatives were noti- military might. paying the final price for dealing with an enemy his king', fied of the execution at 9 a.m. this He drove with six associates to li and countrymen defied throughout the bitter years of the morning ." the Oslo police station in a bullet- secrecy surrounded the execution, a Quisling was sentenced to death pro6f limousine and -surrendered war. The greatest for treason by a high court Sep- May 9. Immediately he was ar- , Foreign Affairs Office spokesman said. tember 10 and his sentence was raigned on a charge of treason.lI,' D Maintains Innocence confirmed October 13, when his Then, as he was later to do at his sI appeal was denied. trial, he maintained that all he had fi Quisling was awakened in his In the done was for the good and rushed quickly before the slightly more than five of Norway.,'! cell years he ruled Norway as Adolf Germans Given Information firing squad of 10 Norwegian mili- Hitler's puppet, the name of Vid- His three-week trial began Aug- tary police .
    [Show full text]