Eleven Thousand Norwegian Teachers Refused | Paul Rogat Loeb

Norway, 1942. Quisling orders teachers to teach fascist values and enroll their pupils in the Norwegian equivalent of the Hitler Youth. They organize clandestinely, passing notes in matchboxes at railway stations, and eleven thousand of fourteen thousand sign a letter saying they will teach as they always have. The Nazis threaten their jobs and pensions, close the schools, and send 1,100 to camps. None of it works. Quisling finally tells a school outside Oslo that the teachers have ruined everything for him.

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