Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...
Treachery. In Berlin on the night of Friday, April 5, was Major Vidkun Quisling, 53, onetime (1931-33) Norwegian Minister of Defense, leader of the Nazi Party in Oslo which long ago withered at the polls but still had roots, nourished by big money, throughout Norway's Army and Navy. How alive those roots were, and how far spreading, Adolf Hitler & Co. well knew when they sent their warships into heavily fortified Oslo Fjord on the night of April 8, followed by long convoys of transports. With few exceptions, the Norse forts and naval units did not fire...
...will have to stay in my country as long as there remains a single inch of Norwegian soil." From his late brother-in-law's son, King George VI of Great Britain, harassed Haakon received a telegram: ". . . Profound admiration ... for the dignity, courage and tenacity shown by Your Majesty and your people . . . [The Allied Governments] are bringing all help in their power ... so that the Allied forces, fighting side by side with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some...
From towns along that rail spur, came word of a strong Norwegian mobilization, to cooperate with the Allies should they strike for Trondheim and the main rail line south to Oslo...
...Adolf Hitler expected to get gold or hard foreign securities from Danish vaults, he was disappointed. It was announced in London that $120,000,000 of Danish and Norwegian bullion had been secretly and successfully flown to the Bank of England before the invasion...