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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 281st day of the year.
On this day in 1942, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle front page reported that Norway and Denmark had reached their boiling point and planned a revolt against the martial law that occupying Nazi forces, under the orders of German Reichkommissar Josef Terhoven, had declared against the two Scandinavian countries, particularly in Trondheim Fjord, near Norway’s western coast. Nazi economist Dr. Andreas Predoehl predicted that Scandinavia would be incorporated into “Germany’s Greater Europe.” In Norway, the Nazis imposed curfews, restricted traffic, closed theaters and prohibited any meetings of more than three persons. The martial law had the effect of bolstering resistance on the part of Norwegians against the Nazi forces. Norway and Denmark each had organized resistance movements. Visitors to Oslo can now visit the Norwegian Resistance Museum.
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