Operation Weserübung
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In the early morning of 9 April 1940, German forces occupied Denmark and invaded Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned Anglo-French occupation of Norway known as Plan R 4, whi
German forces climbing a very step road just south of Bagn
Oscarsborg Fortress under air attack, 9 April, 1940
Norwegian Army 7.5 cm field gun
Dansk stilling i den sydlige udkant af Åbenrå
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
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Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German general and war criminal during World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops
Operation Weserübung
…of the Kings of Denmark and Norway in the hope of triggering a rapid surrender. On 21 February 1940, command of the operation was given to General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. He had fought in Finland during the First World War and was familiar with Arctic warfare, but he would have command of only the ground forces, despite…
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Vidkun Quisling, Head of the SS Heinrich Himmler, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven, and Falkenhorst in Norway, 1941
Von Falkenhorst with the sisters of the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women, in the summer of 1941 during the Continuation War