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Showing Original Post only (View all)I've been reading about the Norwegian resistance movement during WWII [View all]
when Norway was occupied by the Nazis. The Nazis' three main civilian targets were journalists, teachers and the clergy - all of whom resisted in courageous ways. There were many underground newspapers; the teachers went on strike and some were punished by being sent to labor camps in the Arctic. Ninety-three percent of the clergy resigned from the (Lutheran) Church of Norway in order to fulfill their oaths of ordination and formed an underground church, and a number of pastors were tortured, imprisoned and executed. People wore paper clips on their lapels as an apparently innocuous symbol of resistance. All of this is interesting history, but now I'm wondering whether it will get so bad that we'll need a resistance movement, too. Am I being too dramatic?