As this point is interesting from the point of view of seizure of sovereignty and of action taken in the administration, I think I may submit two documents, which are Documents RF-924 and RF-925. These are extracts of judicial interrogations by the Norwegian Court of two high German officials of the Reich Commission at Oslo. Document Number RF-924 refers to the interrogation of Georg Wilhelm Müller, interrogation dated 5 January 1946. Wilhelm Müller was the Ministerial Director in the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. The information which he gives concerns more particularly the functioning of the propaganda service, but similar methods were used in a general way, as this statement admits. I quote Document RF-924:
“Question: ‘In 1941 nobody in your country thought that military difficulties would arise. At that time they certainly tried to mold the Norwegian people along Nationalist Socialist lines?’
“Answer: ‘They did this until the very end.’
“Question: ‘Which were the practical measures for achieving this National Socialist molding?’
“Answer: ‘They supported the NS Samling as far as possible; and they did it, in the first place, by strengthening the Party organization considerably.’ ”
I may point out that this translation into French is not first rate; it is, however, comprehensible.
“Question: ‘In what way was it strengthened?’