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Norwegians, during WWII, wore

Emblems made of birch bark; they

Vowed not to capitulate, not

Ever, with this mark. Their clever

Ruse helped get them through the dark.

While I worked as an au pair in Norway, I learned that many Norwegians had worn a piece of birch bark on their coats to signify in a quiet way they would never bow down to the Third Reich. The Norwegian word for birch bark is “never.”