Word: falkenhorst
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...Failure in this particular did not upset the plan for one simple reason: surprise had been achieved. The Norwegians, trusting, law-abiding, were completely disorganized; and it was six days before the Allies were able to land even territorial troops at any point south of Narvik. In the interval Falkenhorst recovered from his one serious setback. When the Allied Fleet and planes finally got busy...
...only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more Nazi troops landed in Oslo Fjord by ship for two and one-half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports, under cover of menacing demonstrations over the city by bomber and fighting craft. Experts now know that a score...
...covered their Government's flight, more & more German men and arms were already pouring northward by sea as well as by air from Germany and from new Nazi bases in Denmark, grimly taking losses as they had to, but still coming on. Unlike the Allies' relief expedition, Falkenhorst's invasion was geared to smite and smite again...
...estimated 85,000 Germans had been put into action on Norwegian soil. By this week observers raised the figure to 150,000, despite a heavy toll from continued Allied attacks in the sea lanes off Sweden's west coast. Many more were expected in weeks to come, because Falkenhorst played for Norway for keeps. He got there first, now he must stay there last, since Germany needs Norway not only for military reasons, but for prestige and home morale...
...which may be construed as Peer Gynt's conscience, his better self. The Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether a combination of dismay at the Allies' ineptitude, plus the Gestapo, which promptly moved in led by Gauleiter Terboven (TIME, May 6), plus the treachery of quislings, would eventually result in destruction of the Boyg, extermination of the Norse...