The Archive · 1941

Norwegian Children Stage Revolt

The revolt in Norwegian schools against the Quisling regime is growing. Many teachers and pupils have been arrested, and many more teachers have resigned or been dismissed because. they would not accept the new principles of "education" according to a Scandinavian correspondent of the "Sunday Times,"

In Oslo and Aker children and their teachers have demonstrated, not only against the enforced teaching of Quisling's doctrines, but even more emphatically against the outrageous raids on schools carried out by the Hirdmen (storm-troopers), The Hirdmen have broken into many schools and ill-treated teachers and pupils in the most brutal manner.

Open revolt broke out when Hirdmen arrested thirty teachers and pupils in their classrooms at Hedge-hausen School in Oslo. All high schools stopped work, and the strike lasted for several Jays. Hundreds of! schoolehildren gathered in front of; the empty palace, shouting "Long live the King!" and "Down with Quisling!" They had Norwegian lags sewn to their clothing, so that hey could not easily be torn away y Hirdmen,

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