SPYING IN NORWAY
GERMAN CHARGES THREE MEN EXECUTED (Reed. Aug. 12, noon) LONDON, Aug. 11. The Germans executed three Norwegians on a. charge of establishing an espionage organisation in Norway for the transmission of information to Britain, reports the Norwegian telegraph agency. The men were condemned to death by court-martial on August 1, the day on which the German commissar declared a state of emergency and placed Norway completely in the hands of the German military authorities, the Gestapo, and the S.S. According to the German-controlled Oslo radio, the men travelled secretly to England, where they were persuaded to co-operate in the establishment of a spying organisation in Norway directed against the German Army. The men returned to Norway with wireless transmitter and also a trunk containing revolvers and ammunition.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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