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** German faced 12,000 teachers refuse publicly to join the Nazi party, something the Germans had to accept because otherwise the Norwegian school system could not work. After victory, in Nazi held territory, the teachers stated:

{{quote|"The call of the teacher is, however, not solely to gift their pupils with knowledge. They are also to teach them to believe in and desire that which is true and just. Therefore, they cannot, without breaching with their calling as a teacher, teach anything conflicting with their conscience. Those who do, are sinning against those students given them to teach, and against themselves. This I swear I will not. I will not encourage you to do anything I believe is wrong, nor will I teach you anything which I believe is untrue. I will, as I have heretofore done, let my conscience be my guideline, and then I believe I will be upholding my pact with the great majority of the people who have bestowed upon me that teacher's task."}}

* When the Supreme Court soon after the military's defeat was asked to confirm

* When the Supreme Court soon after the military's defeat was asked to confirm the legality of certain of the German occupier's actions that contravened Norwegian and international law, the Justices simply responded that their legal arguments would have no effect on an occupier's brutal policies, after which they resigned to a man to avoid staining their honor.

* The University of Oslo's students were the foundation of the XU intelligence organization, spying on the German occupiers for the Allies. By the war's end they had 1,500 operatives and a courier system to the United Kingdom. One of its leaders was a 21 year old student Anne-Sofie Østvedt, who spent 3 years living undercover while the Gestapo is hunting her down.

* Nortraship. Around one thousand merchant shipping vessels, working for the Allied side after Norway had fallen. Try running supply convoys without them!

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