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...torpedo did not, however, sink the Scharnhorst, which was last reported near Trondheim, Norway (TIME, March...
Perhaps the time had come for Grand Admiral Doenitz' surface fleet to take a hand. Sweden reported that the Nazi fleet at Trondheim, Norway, had steamed northward to take over the Luftwaffe's task of attacking Allied convoys on the Murmansk run. A realistic view was that both the Germans and the Allies considered Southern Europe to be the next great theater of action, and that the Nazis were gathering their most effective forces -U-boats on the Atlantic approaches, aircraft over the Mediterranean-for a supreme test...
...notwithstanding, the principle of the Fleet in Being served the Germans well in World War I, and is powerfully at work against the U.S. as well as Britain in World War II. In this case the Fleet in Being is again a German fleet, gathered in a fjord near Trondheim, Norway. The mere threat of that fleet restricts the full use of perhaps four times its own strength in British and U.S. warships...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...
...frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...