War in Norway and Denmark German Planning Allied Intentions German Landings Norwegian Campaign
War in Norway and Denmark
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Jan 252012
German Planning
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Jan 252012
When the campaign in Poland ended, the Germans, contrary to widely held opinion at the time, did not have a clear idea of what to do next. In a conference held on Sept. 23, 1939, Hitler raised the question of measures to be adopted “in case” the war against Great Britain and France had to [...]
Allied Intentions
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Jan 252012
A British-French staff paper of April 1939 on strategic policy recognized that in the first phase of a war with Germany economic warfare would be the only effective Allied offensive weapon. In the light of this fact and of World War I experience in blockading Germany, Norway inevitably assumed a special importance for the Western [...]
German Landings
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Jan 252012
The initial German invasion force for Norway totaled 10,500 men. Provisions were made to introduce an additional 16,700 men through Oslo in the first week and 40,000 more thereafter. The plan called for a peaceful occupation of the country, allegedly to protect Norwegian neutrality. Falkenhorst’s staff concluded that landings at Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, [...]
Norwegian Campaign
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On the morning of April 9, Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht told Dr. Curt Brauer, the German minister in Oslo: “We will not submit. The battle is already in progress.” But how to fight was another matter. The Norwegian Army’s total strength was 15,320 men, and half of them were stationed in the Arctic as [...]