Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scandinavia. The Swedish Riksdag met in secret session for the third time since World War II began. Reason: conditions in Norway, where the German-controlled press was agitating for new Storting elections to depose King Haakon VII and set up a Nazi Government. Whether Norway would again be united with Sweden, or Sweden simply dominate Scandinavia under German direction, Hitler's Northern Union seemed destined to be realized...
June 10. Norway capitulates and Haakon flees to England...
...friendly attitude of King Haakon...
...King Haakon ordered his soldiers to cease fighting June 9, only ten days after the British finally captured the isolated German landing party...
...Driven at last from his country, Haakon VII was reported a refugee in England...