Most significant is the German Commander-in-Chief's anxiety that the whole odium of Nazi oppression should fall on the Gestapo and its Norwegian police underlings, On the other hand, the principal agent in setting up Germany's new order—the is to ingratiate itself with the population, If, however, the latter should show resistance, the military must then strike "ruthlessly and with the severest measures.
Everywhere in the captured documents there is evidence of frank recognition of the extent of active Norwegian opposition. One of the documents. signed by General von Falkenhorst himself (Nazi Commander-in-Chief in Norway) describes how the attitude of Norway hes recently ffened against our endeavours."
The first document from the German military commander in Norway received at Svolvaer on November 28, 1940, states that neither the Executive Council, nor other political groups are even desirous of assuming in a responsible way the government of Norway; with the exception of the Nasjonal Samaling party, all the other organizations and parties remain pro-British and consequently enti-German.
Hitler's Bribe Press Oppressed New York. May Chancellor Adolf Hitler ie likely within the next few days to offer Josef Stain "a most important place in the new World Order," the "New York Post" learned on good authority from London.
According to the paper. Hitler will propose German contro] of the European amd African continents, and in return, if the U.S.S.R. extends the fullest collaboration. German re-
Oxnition of everything east of the Nazi-Soviet border as within the Soviet sphere of influence, including India, The "Pi ort was credited merely to. "WMihoritative sources" in London. It went on to say that Chancellor Hitler was into: making a trip to Mosco materializes, the German Führer may personally present the proposal to Mr. Stalin in an effort to prevent the increasingly-belligerent attitude of the United States from influencing Soviet policy.
The report added that if Stalin does not invite the Reichsführer to Moscow, the Hitler plan may be handed to the Kremlin by the German Ambassador to Moscow, Count Frederich Werner von der Schulenburg.—Domei.
Control of the Norwegian yp was to be exercised in increase severity, While the German and Italian—communiques must be published daily, it was categorically forbidden to copy announcements from other papers "even, and especially, fr the Swedish and Danish pres A long list of detailed instructions as to what should be published an the form it should take, it was stated "should form the subject of, intensive eral instructions to editors."
An_annex giving instructions to the German military for collaboration with the Gestapo contains examples of off In which the military were to üction:—if a Norwegian girl of friendly disposition towards the Germans or hair cut s the army was to arrest the culprit, fortune tellers or sectarians, who "seriously insulted" the Fuehrer were c be arrested: in cases of subversive preaching by ministers of religion, either "in the pulpit or at the graveside," they were to be restrained and cautioned, The Gestapo was to take action in cases of boycott of pro-German Norwegians; the distribution of anti German leaflets; the sending of German chain letters: and the compilation of black-list of pro~
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