Boldness was indicated. The meeting was called for 3 o'clock in a conference room of Oslo's Deichman Library. Along the slush-filled Moellergaten, past the Swedish Church and the grim Gestapo prison at No. 19, crowds splashed all day. From all over the city, underground editors filtered quietly through the throng toward the library.
On the steps loitered an informer. He counted one, two, three—half a dozen prizes, waited to count no more. An hour later the Gestapo burst in, arrested 30 of Norway's fiercest patriots.
Gestapo Chief Wilhelm Rediess decided to change his tactics. He told his bullies to skip the traditional...
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