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Awesome stuff:
"A glamorous Nazi spy may have been behind one of the biggest setbacks suffered by Allied forces during World War II, newly released files suggest.
The secret government papers suggest that Marina Lee, a blonde ballerina, stole battle plans which led to the fall of Norway to Germany in 1940."
ehh, wrong, Narvik is not one of the Norwegian major cities, It is Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim, and if the Allies hadn't pulled out their troops in June 1940, we would have beaten the Nazis at Bjørnefjell. The nazis were so secure to loose that they had trains ready right behind the Norwegian-Swedish border.
To all those who died in the bomb and to all my friends that were massacered the 22nd of July, I feel with you all and I give all their families my condolanses! Alt for Norge! Моя жизнь матери России!
- liank
- location: Norway
- joined: Aug 10, 2009
- posts: 171
The Germans succeeded so well in Norway because when they attacked, Norway was totally, completely, 100% at peace and unprepared for war. It was a "battle" in the same sense that walking up behind someone who is waiting for a bus and cold-cocking them with a tire-iron is a "fight". After that, the Allies were playing catch-up without air cover, in what was now part of Germany's back yard.
The only reason that the Germans could conduct this "amphibious" operation was that they could sail troopships up to docks and have the soldiers walk ashore dry-shod, with no opposition but customs inspectors. Under the circumstances, the Norwegians did extraordinarily well to sink the German heavy cruiser Blucher and put together any army units at all.
The invasion of Norway and Denmark was one of Germany's most brazen acts of the war. The Belgians, at least, ought to have seen the light and joined the Allies at that point. (The Dutch could semi-reasonably hope for a re-run of WWI.)
Just my $.02 - Huxley
I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
- Huxley2
- location: United States
- joined: Feb 16, 2011
- posts: 99
I know, it was a totaly chaos during the first hours, Oscarsborg Festning, shot sunk Blucher and gave the royal family precious time to escape. The order of mobilizization came too late, but in Elverum a milita and some soldiers hold up the German advance for 4 hours, and the used 2 months too take Norway. And the allies and Norway took back Narvik and pressed the Germans, they even thougth about aborting the entire campaign. I'm halv Norwegian and a totally WW2 freak, this is sure, but alsoe it was VERY lucky that they did hold out that long we did
To all those who died in the bomb and to all my friends that were massacered the 22nd of July, I feel with you all and I give all their families my condolanses! Alt for Norge! Моя жизнь матери России!
- liank
- location: Norway
- joined: Aug 10, 2009
- posts: 171
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