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Description

1. 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "A Stand Against Tyranny presents the dramatic history of Norway's physicians during the Nazi Occupation. Throughout this important book Dr. Maynard Cohen weaves two principal interrelated themes: the valor, dedication, and irreplaceable contribution of Norwegian physicians to the Resistance Movement and the country's century-long progression from a position of official intolerance to a humanitarian state that functions at times as the "the conscience of the world.""--BOOK JACKET. "Cohen interviewed more than twenty men and women whose personal stories are the foundation of this book. Based on these interviews and supplemented with information from Norwegian newspapers and other relevant literature, this book also brings to life the Holocaust as it unfolded in Norway."--BOOK JACKET. "With A Stand Against Tyranny, Maynard Cohen weaves together an astonishing and triumphant tale of pride and determination, and provides a memorial to those many Norwegians, native and refugee alike, who placed their lives at risk in the service of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Kampen Janitsjarorkester
2. 1939-1945
3. Geschichte 1940-1945
4. World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Norway
5. World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Norwegian
6. Physicians > Norway > Biography
7. Physicians
8. Physicians
9. Warfare
10. physicians
11. War > Underground movements
12. Arzt
13. Erlebnisbericht
14. Nationalsozialismus
15. Widerstand
16. Norway > History > German occupation, 1940-1945
17. Norway
18. Norwegen

Genre/Form

1. Biography
2. collective biographies.
3. Biographies
4. History
5. Personal narratives – Norwegian
6. Biographies.
7. Memoirs.

Contents

1. A Brief History of Norway -- Ch.1. Introduction -- Ch.2. The Separation from Sweden -- Between Two World Wars -- Ch.3. Russian Prisoners of War -- Ch.4. Fridtjof Nansen in the League of Nations -- Ch.5. Nansen in Armenia -- The Shadow of War -- Ch.6. Quisling Turns to the Nazis -- Ch.7. Johan Scharffenberg: First among the Anti-Nazis -- Ch.8. Odd Nansen: In his Father's Footsteps -- Ch.9. Goliath in the North: the Russian Attack on Finland -- A No Longer Neutral Norway -- Ch.10. The Perfidious Invasion -- Ch.11. The Resistance Begins -- Ch.12. Nazi Pressures Mount -- Ch.13. The Underground Organizes -- Ch.14. The Campaign Against the Jews -- Ch.15. The Destruction of Telavag -- Ch.16. The Norwegian "Reserve Police" in Sweden -- Ch.17. The Power of the Press -- Ch.18. The University Is Closed -- Ch.19. An Underground Refuge -- Ch.20. Inside Nazi Prisons -- Ch.21. The Infamous Grini Prison -- Ch.22. Through the Hospitals to Safety -- Norwegians in Nazi Concentration Camps -- Ch.23. Leo Eitinger in Autchwitz and Buchenwald -- Ch.24. Odd Nansen in Sachsenhausen: A Daybook of Despair -- The March to Freedom -- Ch.25. The Occupation's End -- Ch.26. Leiv Kreyberg: Caring for Norway's Allies -- Ch.27. A Tragedy in the North -- The Aftermath of War -- Ch.28. Leo Eitinger's Long Journey Home -- Ch.29. Judgment Day: The Trial of Vidkun Quisling -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.