Ungodly Ways

Even Hitler, whom God sent as a curse on mankind because of their ungodly ways, could not cope with genuine civil disobedience.

Mohandas K. Gandhi, who said this, had few followers in Occupied Europe last week. But Josef Terboven, "protector" of Norway, had many Nazis who agreed with him when he said:

It is a matter of indifference to Germans if some thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of Norwegian men, women and children starve and freeze to death during this war.

In Czecho-Slovakia the Nazi "protector," Reinhard Heydrich, kept hustling trussed-up Czechs to the execution walls. Near Oslo 500 Norwegians fought a pitched battle with Nazi troops. While Leader Eugene Deloncle of the pro-Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town of Sabac.) In Greece the Nazis executed 40 student demonstrators. The exiled Greek Government reported the Germans had wrenched off one rebel's arms, had buried alive three Greeks whose executioners succeeded only in wounding them. Exiled Greek Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos cried for philosophical retaliation: "Although such savage brutality . . . would be hard to find even among the most primitive tribes, retribution should not be actuated by a spirit of revenge, but by the moral necessity that an example should be set for future generations and criminal madmen be thus prevented from carrying the world back to a state of darkness and barbarism."

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