Německá invaze do Norska: Klíčové události a důsledky

No, it was really smooth not even 50 altogether April 13th 1940 at 1:30 a.m. On April 9th

king Haakon of Norway is awakened by an aide who says "Majesty, We are at war". the King responds with a question: "against whom?" I'm indy neidell. This is World War 2. Last week the British sent ships out to mine Norwegian coastal waters

They were also making plan for a raid in the Caucasus to cut Soviet and German oil supplies the Germans equipped for an invasion of Norway and indeed it is that invasion king Hawkins Aid is talking about the German invasion fleet leaves Germany for Norway

April 7th when news of the German ships leaving harbours reaches the British Admiralty They don't believe it They receive a Danish Intel report that Denmark is to be occupied and a German division to land at Narvik on the 8th and conclude

all these reports are of doubtful value and may well be only a further move in the war of nerves the Norwegian Admiralty gets word of an armada of German ships passing Denmark But when they ask the German naval attache in Oslo

he says that he figures they're sailing to protect the German coast the Norwegian Admiralty and Norwegian government are Totally ignorant of the invasion until late evening the 8th Ok, one person has been expecting it colonel hot lead all Norwegian army

Chief of staff has been pushing for mobilization since the 5th, but no dice the Norwegian army Isn't really a powerhouse anyhow, but still in theory, they have a sixth division army, that could have mobilized 56,000 men and then maxed it to a hundred thousand with territorial units

but it has never been done in practice and They can't put anywhere near this many men in the field and they no longer even do field training exercises Anyhow, they are completely deficient in armor anti armor and modern fighting aircraft and everything. They do have is obsolete

Norwegian commander general Christian Lockett doesn't make it any easier by only ordering a partial mobilization and Sending out the mobilization notices by post For the Germans the risks of passing through British patrolled waters are well known losses of up to 50% of forces engaged are

Acceptable a big chunk of the u-boat fleet are also part of the campaign But they won't do much since they're using magnetic detonating torpedoes And it turns out they don't work right at such high latitudes the pole

There are three divisions of men total for this first wave of the attack Three more are to come only one the third Mountain Division is regarded by German High Command as a top quality unit 500 transport planes are sent out

300 bombers and 100 fidos are also in the air but for air support to be effective They must quickly take the Norwegian and Danish air fields This is of prime importance on the 8th the British destroyer glowworm meets part of the German fleet off Trondheim fjord

Glowworm rams the heavy cruiser hipa but then bursts into flames and sinks the Polish submarine orzo now with the British sinks the German transport Rio de Janeiro in the scag Iraq many German sailors are rescued by Norwegian fishermen in spite of this the Norwegian authorities

only alert their Coast Guard in the evening that Something might be up The British are too far out to sea to intercept any landing force and they're guarding against a break out into the Arctic

Which is what they think is going to happen There are troops at Ross eyes about to head out for the planned anglo-french Narvik landing and they could easily have made it there before the Germans

But they are sent back ashore and the cruiser Transport sets sail without them on the 9th the German landings begin two divisions under general cowfish invade Denmark and

Denmark surrenders during the day the actual campaign on the ground takes less than six hours with the Danes taking 49 casualties and the Germans 20 as for all of the Norwegian landings At Oslo things do not go as planned for the Germans the heavy cruiser Blucher leading the convoy into oslo

Harbour is sunk with a thousand men aboard including most of the headquarter staff It takes the whole day for oslofjord to be open for passage at Fornebu airfield The German plans are saved basically by two men lieutenant Verner Hansen's 8 bf 110s

Escort captain Ricard vogner's infantry battalion that is to secure the airfield just after paratroopers First go in to seize it right the power troopers Air Squadron turns back because of the fog though Now hermann goering had ordered that if the paratroopers do not cease for naboo. The rest of the mission is to abort and

Geisler does in fact order Vagner to abort he ignores this order his transport planes arrive in four Naboo But ground fire prevents them from landing well Hanson manages to land his planes and use them as mobile machine guns to drive off the

Defenders at Stavanger they take the airport, but most of the airborne unit supplies are sunk by a Norwegian destroyer The landings at Bergen and Trondheim go more closely as planned there's fog though at Kristiansund that hides the entrance to the fjord and this thoughts even torpedo boats trying to bring men ashore and

An island fortress off. The coast is dangerously accurate with its guns according to Hitler's Arctic war eventually Captain Riva of the cruiser Kahlua sends a message to the Norwegians to hold fire

Because they are British and French ships coming in The Norwegians can't make out who they were in the fog and supposedly recognizing the French tricolour let them in Narvik is the part that can possibly go the most wrong

But in bad weather and with good luck the Germans manage to pass the British patrols and make it up the floor in General the Germans do a great job getting their men ashore at the various landing points taking Stavanger Airport will turn out to be a great thing because already

The German air power is limiting British Operations on the 9th the bad weather really helps the Germans British. Naval patrols are forced to remain close to shore There is a big naval encounter this day though between the British battle cruiser renowned and the German ones Ganesa now and Shawn hosts

First both Ginoza now and renowned score hits on each other But when her rear turret is disabled and several crewmen are killed kanai's and out tries to disengage Shawn horse comes under fire as well. But with greater speed the German ships break away from renown a

Bomber force from Germany's 10th Air Corps attacks the British of Bergen sinking a destroyer and damaging a battleship and two cruisers by the end of April 9th all-important Norwegian ports are in German hands

Another thing Norwegian resistance is going to be hampered from the very GetGo because since the Germans take so many major towns They take loads of Norwegian arms from mobilization centers Also on the 9th French Prime Minister Paul who a note goes to London with his foreign minister

Edouard Daladier and the Allied supreme war council agrees to send strong forces To Norway, they also asked Belgium to invite the British and French armies Onto belgian soil but belgium says no, they will remain absolutely neutral

April 10th is the date of the first battle of Narvik British Captain Warburton Lee and five destroyers head of Narvik fewer 10 German destroyers are in inlets up there Both sides lose two ships in the fighting Warburton Lee loses his life

The British also have another ship heavily damaged the Germans too heavily damaged and two with lighter damages on This day British naval aircraft dive bomb and sink the cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen Harbor This is the first time a major warship is sunk by that kind of attack

It's not likely to be repeated any time soon though since the British only have one aircraft carrier with the home fleet The rest are all in the Mediterranean You may be wondering what the German plans are for administration of the conquered territory

Vidkun Quisling leader of national some links sort of a Norwegian version of the Nazi Party But one that has never got three percent of the vote nor elected a single candidate to the Norwegian legislature is told already on the 9th that if

He sets up a government. It will have Hitler's approval He draws up a list of Ministers and accuses the actual Norwegian government of fleeing though They've only gone 50 kilometres inland Quisling thus proclaims a new government with him as Prime Minister that evening over the radio

Hitler does indeed Recognize the Quisling government and a lot of people think that setting up a puppet state has been the German plan all along But a Quisling coup was only just decided on and it is not

What the German Foreign Ministry prefers in fact German ambassador kurt Brauer goes to Elva room to meet with the legitimate government already the tense and Demands that King Haakon officially appoint Quisling head of a new government to make a peaceful transfer of power

Hall Khan refuses and says He'd rather abdicate than appoint any Quisling government whatsoever The cabinet backs the king and so Quisling has no popular support at all

So he is no real use to the Germans so already in the first week of the invasion Germany is withdrawing support for his government and planning on building up an independent government commission the Norwegians do make one change in high commando on the 11th general Otto rouga replaces general Lackey as

commander in chief on the 12th German forces begin pushing out From Oslo ghen isin Al Shean Horst and hipper are attacked by land and carrier-based British aircrafts But the attacks fail the British do occupy the Faroe Islands though

The thirteenth seas the Second Battle of Narvik all eight German destroyers There are sunk by the British battleship war spit and nine British destroyers so far this campaign Well, the actual landings have gone very well

The German Navy has been badly mauled by this time The British War Cabinet has decided to try an actual landing at Narvik Push out the Germans get together with the local Norwegian forces and cross the border to Sweden to destroy the yellow vari ironworks

That's the main reason for their being involved really, you know it's interesting to note the Contrast between the action around Norway and the British lassitude on the western front

I read in martin gilbert that ronald Cartland officer and MP stationed in France writes on the 12th We've settled in again to a comparatively peaceful war existence. The season is with us I give smart lunch parties and dine out twice a week in London, though

There are new plans afoot for actual war making on April 10th is the first meeting of the mod committee formed after the fresh Paris memorandum I mentioned weeks ago that detailed how one might make a practical nuclear weapon using uranium-235

Mod is to determine if this is feasible Niels Bohr sends a telegram to Frisch the 9th that ends cryptically with tell Cockroft and madre Kent which people immediately think is some sort of code anagram for sensitive nuclear information

it actually refers to John Cockcroft and Bohr's housekeeper madre, who is from kent and though the initials? Ma UD stand for nothing? That is the committee's name from the telegram with all capital letters

Neither fresh nor Pyrus are on the committee as they are German and thus considered a security threat despite their work and the week ends with a full on German invasion of Norway that has taken all of initial land objectives, even though at sea the Germans have big troubles and

No, one saw this invasion coming certainly not the king despite a fair number of warning signs But Germany needs that Swedish iron and so a neutral country is again invaded without provocation With all the bloodshed and death of thousands of its citizens and the destruction of its property that military invasion entails

Neutrality is supposed to prevent that from happening, but that's not working. So well these days I Wonder if other neutral European nations are taking note Maud was exploring the possibility of making a nuclear weapon some 20 years later the Soviets made the largest one ever

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