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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danimarka%E2%80%93Norve%C3%A7_%C9%99m%C9%99liyyat%C4%B1" title="Danimarka–Norveç əməliyyatı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Danimarka–Norveç əməliyyatı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%82_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="وزراوبونق عملیاتی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="وزراوبونق عملیاتی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Нарвежская аперацыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Нарвежская аперацыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%E2%80%9E%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3%E2%80%9C" title="Операция „Везерюбунг“ – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Операция „Везерюбунг“" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operació Weserübung – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Operació Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BF%C4%83%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%BA%C4%95%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Данипе Норвегине тапăнса кĕни – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Данипе Норвегине тапăнса кĕни" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operace_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operace Weserübung – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Operace Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operation Weserübung – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Operation Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unternehmen_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Unternehmen Weserübung – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Unternehmen Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatsioon_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operatsioon Weserübung – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Operatsioon Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B5%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%8D%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Επιχείρηση Βεζερύμπουνγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Επιχείρηση Βεζερύμπουνγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operación Weserübung – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Operación Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaco_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operaco Weserübung – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Operaco Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF" title="عملیات وزروبونگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="عملیات وزروبونگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Opération Weserübung – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Opération Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A0%EC%A0%80%EC%9C%84%EB%B6%95_%EC%9E%91%EC%A0%84" title="베저위붕 작전 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="베저위붕 작전" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%A1-%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AE%D5%B8%D5%B2%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Դանիա-նորվեգական ռազմագործողություն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դանիա-նորվեգական ռազմագործողություն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operacija_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operacija Weserübung – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Operacija Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operasi_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operasi Weserübung – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Operasi Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operazione_Weser%C3%BCbung" title="Operazione Weserübung – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Operazione Weserübung" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94" title="המערכה בנורווגיה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המערכה בנורווגיה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ნორვეგიის ოპერაცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნორვეგიის ოპერაცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danijos-Norvegijos_operacija" title="Danijos-Norvegijos operacija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Danijos-Norvegijos operacija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weser%C3%BCbung_hadm%C5%B1velet" title="Weserübung hadművelet – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Weserübung hadművelet" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Операција Везерибунг – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Операција Везерибунг" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%93%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D" title="ഓപ്പറേഷൻ വെസെൻബർഗ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഓപ്പറേഷൻ വെസെൻബർഗ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AE" title="वेसेऱ्युबुंग मोहीम – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="वेसेऱ्युबुंग मोहीम" 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("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>German soldiers advancing towards Pålsbrøtin, southwest of <a href="/wiki/Bagn" title="Bagn">Bagn</a> in <a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8r-Aurdal_Municipality" class="mw-redirect" title="Sør-Aurdal Municipality">Sør-Aurdal Municipality</a>, Norway</li> <li>Norway's <a href="/wiki/Oscarsborg_Fortress" title="Oscarsborg Fortress">Oscarsborg Fortress</a>, under attack from Luftwaffe bombers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52" title="Junkers Ju 52">Junkers Ju 52</a> transport aircraft flying low above Danish rooftops</li> <li>German tanks driving through <a href="/wiki/Horsens" title="Horsens">Horsens</a> in mainland Denmark</li> <li>Danish position on the southern outskirts of <a href="/wiki/Aabenraa" title="Aabenraa">Aabenraa</a> near the German border</li> <li>A Norwegian field gun in action</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>9 April – 10 June 1940<br />(2 months and 1 day)</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Location</th><td><div class="location"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist nowrap"><ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a></li></ul></div></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Result</th><td class="status"> German victory</td></tr><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Territorial<br />changes</th><td> <ul><li>Occupation of <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Denmark">Denmark</a> and <a href="/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway" title="German occupation of Norway">Norway</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a></li> <li>Occupation of <a href="/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland" title="Allied occupation of Iceland">Iceland</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_occupation_of_the_Faroe_Islands" title="British occupation of the Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Belligerents</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <b><span data-sort-value="Germany"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a></span></b></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a></b></li> <li><b><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a></b></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><span data-sort-value="France"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland_%281928%E2%80%931980%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Polish_Armed_Forces_in_the_West" title="Polish Armed Forces in the West">Poland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders and leaders</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_von_Falkenhorst" title="Nikolaus von Falkenhorst">Nikolaus von Falkenhorst</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Leonhard_Kaupisch" title="Leonhard Kaupisch">Leonhard Kaupisch</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Dietl" title="Eduard Dietl">Eduard Dietl</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hans_Ferdinand_Geisler" title="Hans Ferdinand Geisler">Hans Geisler</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Saalw%C3%A4chter" title="Alfred Saalwächter">Alfred Saalwächter</a></li></ul> </div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"><img alt="Denmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/31px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Denmark.svg/40px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="387" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/William_Wain_Prior" title="William Wain Prior">William Wain Prior</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Kristian_Laake" title="Kristian Laake">Kristian Laake</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Otto_Ruge" title="Otto Ruge">Otto Ruge</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Fleischer" title="Carl Gustav Fleischer">Carl Gustav Fleischer</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway"><img alt="Norway" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/21px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/32px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Flag_of_Norway.svg/41px-Flag_of_Norway.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="372" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Rasmus_Hatledal" title="Rasmus Hatledal">Rasmus Hatledal</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/William_Boyle,_12th_Earl_of_Cork" title="William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork">William Boyle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>9 divisions</li> <li>1 artillery battalion</li> <li>1 motorized rifle brigade</li> <li><b>Total</b>: <b>120,000</b></li></ul> </div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><b>Denmark</b>:</li> <li>2 divisions: ~14,500</li> <li><b>Norway</b>:</li> <li>6 divisions: ~52,000</li></ul> <ul><li><b>Denmark and Norway</b>: ~66,500</li> <li><b>Allies</b>: ~35,000</li> <li><b>Total</b>: <b>~101,500</b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Casualties and losses</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a></b></i>:</li> <li>1 heavy cruiser</li> <li>2 light cruisers</li> <li>10 destroyers</li> <li>various U-boats, transports and smaller warships</li> <li><b>Total</b>:</li> <li>5,296 casualties<sup id="cite_ref-Lunde542_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lunde542-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Derry230_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Derry230-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><b>Denmark</b>:</li> <li>26 killed</li> <li>23 wounded<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZabecki2014323_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZabecki2014323-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Norway</b>:</li> <li>116 ships lost<sup id="cite_ref-marinen_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marinen-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-marinensfar_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marinensfar-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1,700 killed</li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></b></i>:</li> <li>1 aircraft carrier</li> <li>1 heavy cruiser</li> <li>1 light cruiser</li> <li>7 destroyers</li> <li>1 submarine</li> <li>various transports and smaller warships</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">French Navy</a></b></i>:</li> <li>1 destroyer</li> <li>1 submarine</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Polish_Navy" title="Polish Navy">Polish Navy</a></b></i>:</li> <li>1 destroyer</li> <li>1 submarine</li> <li><b>Allies</b>: 4,902 casualties</li> <li><b>Total</b>: 6,602 casualties</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output 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title="Siege of Malta (World War II)">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_campaign" title="Syria–Lebanon campaign">Syria–Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran" title="Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dodecanese_campaign" title="Dodecanese campaign">Dodecanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon">Southern France</a></li></ul> <p><b>Other campaigns</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Theater_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Theater (World War II)">Americas</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian%E2%80%93Peruvian_War" title="Ecuadorian–Peruvian War">Ecuador–Peru</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antarctica_during_World_War_II" title="Antarctica during World War II">Antarctica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Atlantic</a></li> 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occupation of the Faroe Islands"><i>Valentine</i> (Faroe Islands)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Safari" title="Operation Safari"><i>Safari</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Isefjord" title="Battle of Isefjord">Isefjord</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landing_at_Bornholm" title="Landing at Bornholm">Bornholm</a></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II" title="Finland in World War II">Finland</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Continuation War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Silver_Fox" title="Operation Silver Fox"><i>Silver Fox</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Orator" title="Operation Orator"><i>Orator</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapland_War" title="Lapland War">Lapland War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tanne_Ost" title="Operation Tanne Ost"><i>Tanne Ost</i></a></li></ul> <p><b><a 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Claymore"><i>Claymore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_EF_(1941)" title="Operation EF (1941)">Kirkenes and Petsamo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gauntlet" title="Operation Gauntlet"><i>Gauntlet</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Fritham" title="Operation Fritham"><i>Fritham</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gearbox" title="Operation Gearbox"><i>Gearbox</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gearbox_II" title="Operation Gearbox II"><i>Gearbox II</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Leader" title="Operation Leader"><i>Leader</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Zitronella" title="Operation Zitronella"><i>Zitronella</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Tirpitz#British_attacks_on_Tirpitz" title="German battleship Tirpitz">Attacks on <i>Tirpitz</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petsamo%E2%80%93Kirkenes_offensive" title="Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive">Petsamo–Kirkenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_Finnmark" title="Liberation of 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Key events</b> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Operation <i>Weserübung</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_occupation_of_the_Faroe_Islands" title="British occupation of the Faroe Islands">British occupation of the Faroe Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_invasion_of_Iceland" class="mw-redirect" title="British invasion of Iceland">British invasion of Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II" title="Greenland in World War II">Greenland in World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telegram_Crisis" title="Telegram Crisis">Telegram Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Danish_police" title="Deportation of the Danish police">Deportation of the Danish police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_explosion_in_Aarhus" title="1944 explosion in Aarhus">1944 explosion in Aarhus</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Resistance</b> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement" title="Danish resistance movement">Danish resistance movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Carthage" title="Operation Carthage">Operation Carthage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aarhus_Air_Raid" title="Aarhus Air Raid">Aarhus Air Raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Safari" title="Operation Safari">Operation Safari</a> - <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Isefjord" title="Battle of Isefjord">Battle of Isefjord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews" title="Rescue of the Danish Jews">Rescue of the Danish Jews</a> - <a href="/wiki/Elsinore_Sewing_Club" title="Elsinore Sewing Club">Elsinore Sewing Club</a></li></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Organizations</b> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Corps_Denmark" title="Free Corps Denmark">Free Corps Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schalburg_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Schalburg Corps">Schalburg Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HIPO_Corps" title="HIPO Corps">HIPO Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_Brigade_in_Sweden" title="Danish Brigade in Sweden">Danish Brigade in Sweden</a></li></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Camps</b> <li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%B8slev_Prison_Camp" title="Frøslev Prison Camp">Frøslev Prison Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horser%C3%B8d_camp" title="Horserød camp">Horserød camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oksb%C3%B8l_Refugee_Camp" title="Oksbøl Refugee Camp">Oksbøl Refugee Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seefliegerhorst_Aalborg" title="Seefliegerhorst Aalborg">Seefliegerhorst Aalborg</a></li></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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href="/wiki/Liberation_of_Finnmark" title="Liberation of Finnmark">Liberation of Finnmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_World_War_II" title="Legal purge in Norway after World War II">Post-war purge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haakon_VII" title="Haakon VII">Haakon VII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olav_V" title="Olav V">Crown Prince Olav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johan_Nygaardsvold" title="Johan Nygaardsvold">Johan Nygaardsvold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halvdan_Koht" title="Halvdan Koht">Halvdan Koht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._J._Hambro" title="C. J. Hambro">C. J. Hambro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Fleischer" title="Carl Gustav Fleischer">Carl Gustav Fleischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Ruge" title="Otto Ruge">Otto Ruge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jens_Christian_Hauge" title="Jens Christian Hauge">Jens Christian Hauge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunnar_S%C3%B8nsteby" title="Gunnar Sønsteby">Gunnar Sønsteby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling" title="Vidkun Quisling">Vidkun Quisling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonas_Lie_(government_minister)" title="Jonas Lie (government minister)">Jonas Lie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulbrand_Lunde" title="Gulbrand Lunde">Gulbrand Lunde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sverre_Riisn%C3%A6s" title="Sverre Riisnæs">Sverre Riisnæs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josef_Terboven" title="Josef Terboven">Josef Terboven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Rediess" title="Wilhelm Rediess">Wilhelm Rediess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Rinnan" title="Henry Rinnan">Henry Rinnan</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Operation_Wilfred" title="Operation Wilfred">Wilfred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Juno" title="Operation Juno"><i>Juno</i></a></li></ul> <p><b>1941</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Claymore" title="Operation Claymore"><i>Claymore</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barents_Sea_submarine_campaign_(1941)" title="Barents Sea submarine campaign (1941)"><i>Polyarny</i></a></li></ul> <p><b>1942</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Sportpalast" title="Operation Sportpalast"><i>Sportpalast</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1942)" title="Operation Rösselsprung (1942)"><i>Rösselsprung</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Doppelschlag" title="Operation Doppelschlag"><i>Doppelschlag</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Zarin" title="Operation Zarin"><i>Zarin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Wunderland" title="Operation Wunderland"><i>Wunderland</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Landing_at_Cape_Pikshuev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Landing at Cape Pikshuev (page does not exist)">Cape Pikshuev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Orator" title="Operation Orator"><i>Orator</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Motovsky_Gulf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Motovsky Gulf (page does not exist)">Motovsky Gulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea" title="Battle of the Barents Sea">Barents Sea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Regenbogen_(Arctic)" title="Operation Regenbogen (Arctic)"><i>Regenbogen</i></a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>1943</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kara_Sea_U-boat_campaign" title="Kara Sea U-boat campaign">Kara Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Zitronella" title="Operation Zitronella"><i>Zitronella</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Ostfront" title="Operation Ostfront"><i>Ostfront</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_North_Cape" title="Battle of the North Cape">North Cape</a></li></ul> <p><b>1944</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mascot" title="Operation Mascot"><i>Mascot</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petsamo%E2%80%93Kirkenes_offensive" title="Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive">Petsamo–Kirkenes</a></li></ul> <dl><dt><a href="/wiki/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II" title="Arctic convoys of World War II">Convoys</a><br /><b>1941</b></dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Dervish_(1941)" title="Operation Dervish (1941)"><i>Dervish</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_1" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 1">PQ 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_2" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 2">PQ 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_3" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 3">PQ 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_4" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 4">PQ 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_5" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 5">PQ 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_6" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 6">PQ 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_7" title="Convoy PQ 7">PQ 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_1" title="Convoy QP 1">QP 1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 2 (page does not exist)">QP 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_3" title="Convoy QP 3">QP 3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_4&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 4 (page does not exist)">QP 4</a></li></ul> <p><b>1942</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_8" title="Convoy PQ 8">PQ 8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_9/10" title="Convoy PQ 9/10">PQ 9/10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_10" title="Convoy QP 10">QP 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_11" title="Convoy PQ 11">PQ 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_12" title="Convoy PQ 12">PQ 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_13" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 13">PQ 13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QP_13" class="mw-redirect" title="QP 13">QP 13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_14" title="Convoy PQ 14">PQ 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_14" title="Convoy QP 14">QP 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_PQ_15" title="Convoy PQ 15">PQ 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_15" title="Convoy QP 15">QP 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_QP_11" title="Convoy QP 11">QP 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_16" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 16">PQ 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_17" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 17">PQ 17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PQ_18" class="mw-redirect" title="PQ 18">PQ 18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_FB" title="Operation FB"><i>FB</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_51A" title="Convoy JW 51A">JW 51A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JW_51B" class="mw-redirect" title="JW 51B">JW 51B</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 5 (page does not exist)">QP 5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 6 (page does not exist)">QP 6</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_7&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 7 (page does not exist)">QP 7</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_8&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 8 (page does not exist)">QP 8</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 9 (page does not exist)">QP 9</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_QP_12&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy QP 12 (page does not exist)">QP 12</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_51&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 51 (page does not exist)">RA 51</a></li></ul> <p><b>1943</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_52&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 52 (page does not exist)">JW 52</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_53&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 53 (page does not exist)">JW 53</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_54A" title="Convoy JW 54A">JW 54A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_54B" title="Convoy JW 54B">JW 54B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_55A" title="Convoy JW 55A">JW 55A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_55B" title="Convoy JW 55B">JW 55B</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_52&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 52 (page does not exist)">RA 52</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_53&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 53 (page does not exist)">RA 53</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_54A&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 54A (page does not exist)">RA 54A</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_54B&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 54B (page does not exist)">RA 54B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_RA_55A" title="Convoy RA 55A">RA 55A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_RA_55B" title="Convoy RA 55B">RA 55B</a></li></ul> <p><b>1944</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_56A" title="Convoy JW 56A">JW 56A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_56B" title="Convoy JW 56B">JW 56B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_57" title="Convoy JW 57">JW 57</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convoy_JW_58" title="Convoy JW 58">JW 58</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_59&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 59 (page does not exist)">JW 59</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_60&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 60 (page does not exist)">JW 60</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_61&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 61 (page does not exist)">JW 61</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_61A&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 61A (page does not exist)">JW 61A</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_62&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 62 (page does not exist)">JW 62</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_63&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 63 (page does not exist)">JW 63</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_64&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 64 (page does not exist)">JW 64</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_56&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 56 (page does not exist)">RA 56</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_57&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 57 (page does not exist)">RA 57</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_58&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 58 (page does not exist)">RA 58</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_59&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 59 (page does not exist)">RA 59</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_59A&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 59A (page does not exist)">RA 59A</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_60&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 60 (page does not exist)">RA 60</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_61&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 61 (page does not exist)">RA 61</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_61A&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 61A (page does not exist)">RA 61A</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_62&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 62 (page does not exist)">RA 62</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_63&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 63 (page does not exist)">RA 63</a></li></ul> <p><b>1945</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_64&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 64 (page does not exist)">JW 64</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_65&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 65 (page does not exist)">JW 65</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_66&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 66 (page does not exist)">JW 66</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_JW_67&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy JW 67 (page does not exist)">JW 67</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_64&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 64 (page does not exist)">RA 64</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_65&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 65 (page does not exist)">RA 65</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_66&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 66 (page does not exist)">RA 66</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Convoy_RA_67&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Convoy RA 67 (page does not exist)">RA 67</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <p><b>Operation Weserübung</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Unternehmen Weserübung</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="de-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German" title="Help:IPA/Standard German">[ˈveːzɐˌʔyːbʊŋ]</a></span>, <abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr><span> Operation <a href="/wiki/Weser_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Weser River">Weser</a> Exercise</span>, 9 April – 10 June 1940) was the invasion of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. It was the opening operation of the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Campaign">Norwegian Campaign</a>. </p><p>In the early morning of 9 April 1940 (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Wesertag</i></span>, "Weser Day"), German forces occupied Denmark and invaded Norway, ostensibly as a preventive manoeuvre against a planned Anglo-French <a href="/wiki/Military_occupation" title="Military occupation">occupation</a> of Norway known as <a href="/wiki/Plan_R_4" title="Plan R 4">Plan R 4</a>, which developed as a response to a German invasion of Norwegian territory. After the rapid occupation of Denmark, in which the Danish military was ordered to stand down as Denmark's government did not declare war with Germany, German envoys informed the governments of Denmark and Norway that Germany's forces had come to protect both countries against Anglo-French attacks. Significant differences in <a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">geography</a>, location and <a href="/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a> between the two nations made the actual military operations very dissimilar. </p><p>The invasion fleet's nominal landing time, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Weserzeit</i></span> (Weser Time), was set to 05:15. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Swedish_iron-ore_industry_during_World_War_II" title="Swedish iron-ore industry during World War II">Swedish iron-ore industry during World War II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plan_R_4" title="Plan R 4">Plan R 4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Wilfred" title="Operation Wilfred">Operation Wilfred</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Franco-British_plans_for_intervention_in_the_Winter_War" title="Franco-British plans for intervention in the Winter War">Franco-British plans for intervention in the Winter War</a></div> <p>By the spring of 1939, the <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_(United_Kingdom)" title="Admiralty (United Kingdom)">British Admiralty</a> began to view <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a> as a potential <a href="/wiki/Theater_(warfare)" title="Theater (warfare)">theatre of war</a> in a future conflict with <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. However, the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Government of the United Kingdom">British government</a> was reluctant to engage in another land conflict on the continent in the belief that it would repeat <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. Therefore, the British began to consider naval <a href="/wiki/Blockade" title="Blockade">blockades</a> against Germany if war broke out. German industry was heavily dependent on the import of <a href="/wiki/Iron_ore" title="Iron ore">iron ore</a> from Swedish mines in <a href="/wiki/Norrland" title="Norrland">Norrland</a>, and much of that ore was shipped through the Norwegian port of <a href="/wiki/Narvik_(town)" title="Narvik (town)">Narvik</a> during the winter months.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Control of the Norwegian coast would serve to tighten a potential blockade against Germany. </p><p>In October 1939, the chief of the <i><a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a></i>, Grand-Admiral <a href="/wiki/Erich_Raeder" title="Erich Raeder">Erich Raeder</a>, discussed with <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> the danger posed by potential <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> bases in Norway and the possibility of Germany pre-emptively seizing those location. The <i>Kriegsmarine</i> argued that a German occupation of Norway would allow control of the nearby seas and serve as a platform for staging submarine operations against the Allies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the other branches of the <i><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></i> were not interested, and Hitler issued a directive stating that the main effort would be a land offensive through the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a>. </p><p>Toward the end of November 1939, <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, as a new member of the <a href="/wiki/Chamberlain_war_ministry" title="Chamberlain war ministry">Chamberlain war ministry</a>, proposed the mining of Norwegian waters in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Wilfred" title="Operation Wilfred">Operation Wilfred</a>. This would force the ore transports to travel through the open waters of the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> could intercept them. Churchill assumed that Wilfred would provoke a German response and that the Allies would then implement <a href="/wiki/Plan_R_4" title="Plan R 4">Plan R 4</a> and occupy Norway. Though later implemented, Operation Wilfred was initially rejected by <a href="/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain" title="Neville Chamberlain">Neville Chamberlain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" title="Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax">Lord Halifax</a> for fear of an adverse reaction among neutral nations such as the United States. The start of the <a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a> in November 1939 changed the strategic situation. Churchill again proposed his mining scheme but once again was denied. </p><p>In December 1939, the United Kingdom and France began serious planning for sending aid to Finland. Their plan called for a force to land in Narvik, in northern Norway, the main port for Swedish iron ore exports and then to take control of the <i><a href="/wiki/Malmbanan" class="mw-redirect" title="Malmbanan">Malmbanan</a></i> railway line from Narvik to <a href="/wiki/Lule%C3%A5" title="Luleå">Luleå</a> in Sweden on the shore of the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Bothnia" title="Gulf of Bothnia">Gulf of Bothnia</a>. This would also allow Allied forces to occupy Swedish iron mines in Norrland. The plan received the support of both Chamberlain and Halifax. They were counting on the co-operation of Norway, which would alleviate some of the legal issues, but stern warnings issued to both Norway and Sweden by Germany resulted in strongly negative reactions in both countries. Planning for the expedition continued, but the justification for it was removed after the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Peace_Treaty" title="Moscow Peace Treaty">Moscow Peace Treaty</a> between Finland and the Soviet Union had been signed in March 1940 and ended the Winter War. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Planning">Planning</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Planning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following a meeting with <a href="/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling" title="Vidkun Quisling">Vidkun Quisling</a> from Norway on 14 December,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetrow197415_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetrow197415-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hitler turned his attention to Scandinavia. Convinced of the threat posed by the Allies to the iron ore supply, Hitler ordered the <i><a href="/wiki/Oberkommando_der_Wehrmacht" title="Oberkommando der Wehrmacht">Oberkommando der Wehrmacht</a></i> to begin preliminary planning for an invasion of Norway. The preliminary plan was named <i>Studie Nord</i> and called for only one <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">division</a> of German troops carry out the invasion. </p><p>Between 14 and 19 January, the <i>Kriegsmarine</i> developed an expanded version of this plan. It decided upon two key factors: surprise was essential to reduce the threat of Norwegian resistance (and Allied intervention), and faster German warships, rather than comparatively slow merchant ships, should be used as troop transports. That would allow all targets to be occupied simultaneously. The new plan called for a full <a href="/wiki/Corps" title="Corps">army corps</a>, including a mountain division, an <a href="/wiki/Airborne_forces" title="Airborne forces">airborne division</a>, a motorized rifle brigade and two infantry divisions. The target objectives of the force were the Norwegian capital, <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, and other population centres: <a href="/wiki/Bergen_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bergen (city)">Bergen</a>, Narvik, <a href="/wiki/Troms%C3%B8_(city)" title="Tromsø (city)">Tromsø</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trondheim_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trondheim (city)">Trondheim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kristiansand_(town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kristiansand (town)">Kristiansand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stavanger_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stavanger (city)">Stavanger</a>. The plan also called for the swift capture of the Kings of Denmark and Norway in the hope of triggering a rapid surrender. </p><p>On 21 February 1940, command of the operation was given to <i>General</i> <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_von_Falkenhorst" title="Nikolaus von Falkenhorst">Nikolaus von Falkenhorst</a>. He had fought in Finland during the First World War and was familiar with <a href="/wiki/Arctic_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Arctic warfare">Arctic warfare</a>, but he would have command of only the ground forces, despite Hitler's desire to have a unified command. The final plan was codenamed "Operation Weserübung" on 27 January 1940. The ground forces would be the XXI Army Corps, including the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Mountain_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="3rd Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)">3rd Mountain Division</a> and five infantry divisions; none of the latter had yet been tested in battle. The first phase would consist of three divisions for the assault, with the remainder to follow in the next wave. Three companies of <a href="/wiki/Fallschirmjager" class="mw-redirect" title="Fallschirmjager">fallschirmjagers</a> would be used to seize airfields. The decision to also send the <a href="/wiki/2nd_Mountain_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="2nd Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)">2nd Mountain Division</a> was made later. </p><p>Almost all <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">U-boat operations in the Atlantic</a> were to be stopped for the submarines to aid in the operation. All available submarines, including some training boats, were used as part of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Hartmut" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Hartmut">Operation Hartmut</a> in support of Operation Weserübung. Initially, the plan was to invade Norway and to gain control of Danish airfields by diplomatic means. However, Hitler issued a new directive on 1 March that called for the invasion of both Norway and Denmark. That came at the insistence of the <i><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i> to capture fighter bases and sites for air warning stations. The <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6heres_Kommando_z.b.V._XXXI" class="mw-redirect" title="Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXI">XXXI Corps</a>, formed for the invasion of Denmark, consisted of two infantry divisions and the 11th motorized brigade. The entire operation would be supported by the X Air Corps, which consisted of some 1,000 aircraft of various types. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Preliminaries">Preliminaries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Preliminaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February, the Royal Navy <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyer</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cossack_(F03)" title="HMS Cossack (F03)">HMS <i>Cossack</i></a> <a href="/wiki/Altmark_incident" title="Altmark incident">boarded</a> the German tanker <a href="/wiki/German_tanker_Altmark" title="German tanker Altmark"><i>Altmark</i></a> in Norwegian waters. The crew of <i>Cossack</i> overpowered the tanker's crew and rescued British <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">prisoners of war</a> onboard the ship, whose presence Norwegian authorities had repeatedly ignored. Both the attack and the transportation of prisoners of war into Norwegian waters by <i>Altmark</i> violated Norway's neutrality. Hitler regarded the incident as a clear sign that the Allies were also willing to violate Norwegian neutrality, which made him become even more strongly committed to invading Norway.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 March, the British decided to send an <a href="/wiki/Expeditionary_warfare" title="Expeditionary warfare">expeditionary force</a> to Norway just as the Winter War was winding down. The force began boarding on 13 March, but it was recalled and the operation cancelled because of the end of the Winter War. Instead, the Chamberlain war ministry voted to proceed with the mining operation in Norwegian waters, followed by troop landings. </p><p>On 5 April 1940, the long-planned Operation Wilfred was put into action, and a Royal Navy squadron led by the <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Renown_(1916)" title="HMS Renown (1916)">HMS <i>Renown</i></a> left <a href="/wiki/Scapa_Flow" title="Scapa Flow">Scapa Flow</a> to mine Norwegian waters. The first German ships set sail for the invasion on 7 April 1940 at 3:00 a.m. The mine fields were laid in the <a href="/wiki/Vestfjorden_(Norway)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vestfjorden (Norway)">Vestfjorden</a> in the early morning of 8 April. Operation Wilfred was over, but later that day, the destroyer <a href="/wiki/HMS_Glowworm_(H92)" title="HMS Glowworm (H92)">HMS <i>Glowworm</i></a>, which detached on 7 April to search for a man lost overboard, was sunk by <i>Kriegsmarine</i> <a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">heavy cruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper" title="German cruiser Admiral Hipper"><i>Admiral Hipper</i></a> and two destroyers belonging to the German invasion fleet. On 9 April, the German invasion was under way, and the execution of Plan R 4 was promptly started. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Invasion_of_Denmark">Invasion of Denmark</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Invasion of Denmark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Denmark_(1940)" title="German invasion of Denmark (1940)">German invasion of Denmark (1940)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG/290px-Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG" decoding="async" width="290" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG/435px-Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Weser%C3%BCbung-S%C3%BCd_Panzers.PNG 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="271" /></a><figcaption>German <a href="/wiki/Panzer_I" title="Panzer I">Pz.Kpfw. I</a> tanks in <a href="/wiki/Aabenraa" title="Aabenraa">Aabenraa</a>, Denmark, 9 April 1940</figcaption></figure> <p>Strategically, Denmark's importance to Germany was as a staging area for operations in Norway. Considering its status as a minor nation bordering Germany, it was also seen as a country that would have to fall at some point. Given Denmark's position on the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a>, the country was also crucial for the control of naval and shipping access to major German and Soviet harbours. </p><p>At 04:00 on 9 April 1940, the German ambassador to Denmark, <a href="/wiki/Cecil_von_Renthe-Fink" class="mw-redirect" title="Cecil von Renthe-Fink">Cecil von Renthe-Fink</a>, called the Danish Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Peter_Rochegune_Munch" title="Peter Rochegune Munch">Peter Munch</a> and requested a meeting with him. When the two men met 20 minutes later, Renthe-Fink declared that German troops were then moving in to occupy Denmark to protect the country from Anglo-French attacks. The German ambassador demanded that Danish resistance cease immediately and that contact be made between Danish authorities and the German armed forces. If the demands were not met, the <i>Luftwaffe</i> would bomb the capital, <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A,_J%C3%BCtland,_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_(Sd._Kfz._222).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg/290px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg/435px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg/580px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-753-0010-19A%2C_J%C3%BCtland%2C_deutscher_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_%28Sd._Kfz._222%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption>German <i><a href="/wiki/Leichter_Panzersp%C3%A4hwagen" title="Leichter Panzerspähwagen">Leichter Panzerspähwagen</a></i> armoured car in <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Jutland</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>As the German demands were communicated, the first German advances had already been made, with forces landing on a regular commercial ferry in <a href="/wiki/Gedser" title="Gedser">Gedser</a> at 03:55 and moving north. German <i><a href="/wiki/Fallschirmj%C3%A4ger" title="Fallschirmjäger">Fallschirmjäger</a></i> (paratrooper) units had made unopposed landings and taken two airfields at <a href="/wiki/Aalborg_Airport#History" title="Aalborg Airport">Aalborg</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Storstr%C3%B8m_Bridge" title="Storstrøm Bridge">Storstrøm Bridge</a> as well as the fortress of <a href="/wiki/Masned%C3%B8" title="Masnedø">Masnedø</a>, the latter being the first recorded attack in the world made by paratroopers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOutze1962359_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOutze1962359-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At 04:20 local time, a reinforced battalion of German infantrymen from the 308th Regiment landed in Copenhagen harbour from the minelayer <a href="/wiki/German_minelayer_Hansestadt_Danzig" title="German minelayer Hansestadt Danzig"><i>Hansestadt Danzig</i></a>, quickly capturing the Danish garrison at <a href="/wiki/Kastellet,_Copenhagen" title="Kastellet, Copenhagen">the Citadel</a> without encountering resistance. From the harbour, the Germans moved toward <a href="/wiki/Amalienborg_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="Amalienborg Palace">Amalienborg Palace</a> to capture the Danish royal family. By the time the invasion forces arrived at the king's residence, the <a href="/wiki/Den_Kongelige_Livgarde" class="mw-redirect" title="Den Kongelige Livgarde">King's Royal Guard</a> had been alerted and other reinforcements were on their way to the palace. The first German attack on Amalienborg was repulsed, giving <a href="/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark" title="Christian X of Denmark">Christian X</a> and his ministers time to confer with the Danish Army chief <a href="/wiki/William_Wain_Prior" title="William Wain Prior">General Prior</a>. As the discussions were ongoing, several formations of <a href="/wiki/Heinkel_He_111" title="Heinkel He 111">Heinkel He 111</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dornier_Do_17" title="Dornier Do 17">Dornier Do 17</a> bombers roared over the city dropping <a href="/wiki/Pamphlet" title="Pamphlet">leaflets</a> headed, in Danish, <a href="/wiki/OPROP!" title="OPROP!">OPROP!</a> (proclamation). </p><p>At 05:25, two squadrons of German <a href="/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_110" title="Messerschmitt Bf 110">Messerschmitt Bf 110s</a> attacked <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A6rl%C3%B8se" title="Værløse">Værløse</a> airfield on <a href="/wiki/Zealand_(Denmark)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zealand (Denmark)">Zealand</a> and neutralised the Danish Army Air Service by <a href="/wiki/Strafing" title="Strafing">strafing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (January 2011)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Despite Danish <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare" title="Anti-aircraft warfare">anti-aircraft fire</a>, the German fighters destroyed ten Danish aircraft and seriously damaged another fourteen, thereby wiping out half of the entire Army Air Service.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (January 2011)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Faced with the explicit threat of the <i>Luftwaffe</i> bombing the civilian population of Copenhagen, and with only General Prior in favour of fighting on, King Christian and the entire Danish government capitulated at approximately 06:00, in exchange for retaining political independence in domestic matters. </p><p>The invasion of Denmark lasted less than six hours and was the shortest military campaign conducted by the Germans during the war. The rapid Danish capitulation resulted in the uniquely-lenient <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupation of Denmark">occupation of Denmark</a>, particularly until the summer of 1943, and in postponing the arrest and <a href="/wiki/Deportation" title="Deportation">deportation</a> of Danish Jews until nearly all of them were warned and on their way to <a href="/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews" title="Rescue of the Danish Jews">refuge in neutral Sweden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDanish_Jewish_Museum2003_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanish_Jewish_Museum2003-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the end, 477 Danish Jews were deported, and 70 of them lost their lives, out of a pre-war total of Jews and half-Jews at a little over 8,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWebb2007_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWebb2007-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Invasion_of_Norway">Invasion of Norway</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Invasion of Norway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Campaign">Norwegian Campaign</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Order_of_battle">Order of battle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Order of battle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_campaign_order_of_battle" title="Norwegian campaign order of battle">Norwegian campaign order of battle</a></div> <p>The operation's military headquarters was Hotel Esplanade in Hamburg, where orders were given to, among others, the air units involved in the invasion.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Norway was important to Germany for two primary reasons: as a base for naval units, including U-boats, to weaken Allied shipping in the North Atlantic, and to secure shipments of iron ore from Sweden through the port of <a href="/wiki/Narvik_(town)" title="Narvik (town)">Narvik</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The long northern coastline was an excellent place to launch U-boat operations into the North Atlantic to attack British commerce. Germany was dependent on iron ore from Sweden and was worried, with justification, that the Allies would attempt to disrupt those shipments, 90% of which originating from Narvik. </p><p>The invasion of Norway was given to the XXI Army Corps under <i><a href="/wiki/General_(Germany)" title="General (Germany)">General</a></i> Nikolaus von Falkenhorst and consisted of the following main units: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/69th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="69th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">69th Infantry Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/163rd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">163rd Infantry Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/181st_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="181st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">181st Infantry Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/196th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="196th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">196th Infantry Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/214th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="214th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">214th Infantry Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Mountain_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="3rd Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)">3rd Mountain Division</a></li></ul> <p>The initial invasion force was transported in several groups by ships of the <i>Kriegsmarine</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200518_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200518-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">Battleships</a> <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Scharnhorst" title="German battleship Scharnhorst"><i>Scharnhorst</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/German_battleship_Gneisenau" title="German battleship Gneisenau"><i>Gneisenau</i></a> as distant cover, plus 10 destroyers with 2,000 <i><a href="/wiki/Gebirgsj%C3%A4ger" title="Gebirgsjäger">Gebirgsjäger</a></i> (mountain infantry) under General <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Dietl" title="Eduard Dietl">Eduard Dietl</a> to <a href="/wiki/Narvik_(town)" title="Narvik (town)">Narvik</a></li> <li>Heavy cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Admiral_Hipper" title="German cruiser Admiral Hipper"><i>Admiral Hipper</i></a> and four destroyers with 1,700 troops to <a href="/wiki/Trondheim_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trondheim (city)">Trondheim</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a> <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_K%C3%B6ln" title="German cruiser Köln"><i>Köln</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_K%C3%B6nigsberg" title="German cruiser Königsberg"><i>Königsberg</i></a>, artillery training ship <a href="/wiki/German_training_ship_Bremse" title="German training ship Bremse"><i>Bremse</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Schnellboot" class="mw-redirect" title="Schnellboot">Schnellboot</a></i> mothership <i>Karl Peters</i>, two <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">torpedo boats</a>, five motor torpedo boats and the two auxiliary ships <i>Schiff9</i> and <i>Schiff18</i> with 1,900 troops to <a href="/wiki/Bergen,_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Bergen, Norway">Bergen</a>.</li> <li>Light cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Karlsruhe" title="German cruiser Karlsruhe"><i>Karlsruhe</i></a>, three torpedo boats, seven motor torpedo boats and <i><a href="/wiki/Schnellboot" class="mw-redirect" title="Schnellboot">Schnellboot</a></i> mothership (<i>Schnellbootbegleitschiff</i>) <i>Tsingtau</i> with 1,100 troops to <a href="/wiki/Kristiansand_(town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kristiansand (town)">Kristiansand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arendal_(town)" title="Arendal (town)">Arendal</a></li> <li>Heavy cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="German cruiser Blücher"><i>Blücher</i></a>, heavy cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland" title="German cruiser Deutschland"><i>Lützow</i></a>, light cruiser <a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Emden" title="German cruiser Emden"><i>Emden</i></a>, three torpedo boats, eight <a href="/wiki/Minesweeper_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minesweeper (ship)">minesweepers</a> and two whalers <i>Rau7</i> and <i>Rau8</i> with 2,000 troops to <a href="/wiki/Oslo" title="Oslo">Oslo</a></li> <li>Four minesweepers with 150 troops <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Egersund" title="Capture of Egersund">to Egersund</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Course_of_actions">Course of actions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Course of actions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Weser%C3%BCbung.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Weser%C3%BCbung.png/220px-Weser%C3%BCbung.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="398" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Weser%C3%BCbung.png 1.5x" data-file-width="321" data-file-height="581" /></a><figcaption>The German landing sites during the initial phase of Operation Weserübung</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karte_Oscarsborg.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Karte_Oscarsborg.png/220px-Karte_Oscarsborg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Karte_Oscarsborg.png/330px-Karte_Oscarsborg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Karte_Oscarsborg.png/440px-Karte_Oscarsborg.png 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="726" /></a><figcaption>Map of <a href="/wiki/Oslofjord" title="Oslofjord">Oslofjord</a> with Oscarsborg</figcaption></figure><p>Shortly after noon on 8 April, the clandestine German <a href="/wiki/Troopship" title="Troopship">troopship</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Rio_de_Janeiro_(1914)" title="SS Rio de Janeiro (1914)">SS <i>Rio de Janeiro</i></a> was sunk off <a href="/wiki/Lillesand_(town)" title="Lillesand (town)">Lillesand</a> by the Polish submarine <a href="/wiki/ORP_Orze%C5%82_(1938)" title="ORP Orzeł (1938)">ORP <i>Orzeł</i></a>, part of the Royal Navy's 2nd Submarine Flotilla. However, the news of the sinking reached the appropriate levels of officialdom in Oslo too late to do much more than trigger a limited, last-minute alert. Late in the evening of 8 April 1940, <i><a href="/wiki/Kampfgruppe" title="Kampfgruppe">Kampfgruppe</a></i> 5 was spotted by the Norwegian guard vessel <a href="/wiki/HNoMS_Pol_III" title="HNoMS Pol III"><i>Pol III</i></a>. <i>Pol III</i> was fired at; her captain <a href="/wiki/Leif_Welding-Olsen" title="Leif Welding-Olsen">Leif Welding-Olsen</a> became the first Norwegian killed in action during the invasion. German ships then sailed up the <a href="/wiki/Oslofjord" title="Oslofjord">Oslofjord</a> leading to the Norwegian capital, reaching the <a href="/wiki/Dr%C3%B8bak" title="Drøbak">Drøbak</a> Narrows (<a href="/wiki/Dr%C3%B8baksundet" class="mw-redirect" title="Drøbaksundet">Drøbaksundet</a>). </p><p>In the early morning of 9 April, the gunners at <a href="/wiki/Oscarsborg_Fortress" title="Oscarsborg Fortress">Oscarsborg Fortress</a> fired on the leading ship, <i><a href="/wiki/German_cruiser_Bl%C3%BCcher" title="German cruiser Blücher">Blücher</a></i>, which had been illuminated by spotlights at about 04:15. Two of the fortress guns were 48-year-old German-made <a href="/wiki/Krupp" title="Krupp">Krupp</a> guns (nicknamed <i>Moses</i> and <i>Aron</i>) of 280 mm (11 in) caliber. Within two hours, the badly damaged ship, unable to manoeuvre in the narrow fjord from <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dr%C3%B8bak_Sound" title="Battle of Drøbak Sound">multiple artillery and torpedo hits</a>, sank with very heavy loss of life totalling 600–1,000 men. The threat from the fortress (and the mistaken belief that mines had contributed to the sinking) delayed the rest of the naval invasion group long enough for the <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian monarchy">Royal Family</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Nygaardsvold" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet Nygaardsvold">Cabinet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Storting" title="Storting">members of Parliament</a> to be evacuated, along with the <a href="/wiki/Flight_of_the_Norwegian_National_Treasury" title="Flight of the Norwegian National Treasury">national treasury</a>. On their flight northward by special train, the court encountered the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Midtskogen" title="Battle of Midtskogen">Battle of Midtskogen</a> and bombs at <a href="/wiki/Elverum_(town)" title="Elverum (town)">Elverum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nybergsund" title="Nybergsund">Nybergsund</a>. As the Norwegian king and his legitimate government were not captured, Norway never surrendered in a legal sense to the Germans, leaving the <a href="/wiki/Quisling_regime" title="Quisling regime">Quisling government</a> illegitimate. The <a href="/wiki/Nygaardsvold%27s_Cabinet" title="Nygaardsvold's Cabinet">Norwegian government-in-exile</a> based in London remained, therefore, an Allied nation in the war. </p><p>At 7:06 pm 5 Norwegian fighters were sent into battle to combat a wave of 70–80 enemy planes. German airborne troops landed at the <a href="/wiki/Fornebu" title="Fornebu">Oslo airport Fornebu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kristiansand_Airport,_Kjevik" class="mw-redirect" title="Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik">Kristiansand airport Kjevik</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sola_Air_Station" title="Sola Air Station">Sola Air Station</a> – the latter constituting the <i>first opposed paratrooper attack in history</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> coincidentally, among the <i>Luftwaffe</i> pilots landing at Kjevik was <a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" title="Reinhard Heydrich">Reinhard Heydrich</a>. Vidkun Quisling's radio-effected <i><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27etat" class="mw-redirect" title="Coup d'etat">coup d'etat</a></i> at 7:30 pm on 9 April<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetrow197472_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetrow197472-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was another first. At 8:30 pm the Norwegian destroyer <a href="/wiki/HNoMS_%C3%86ger_(1936)" title="HNoMS Æger (1936)"><i>Æger</i></a> was attacked and sunk outside Stavanger<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200519-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by ten <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_88" title="Junkers Ju 88">Junkers Ju 88</a> bombers, after it sank the German cargo ship <a href="/w/index.php?title=MS_Roda_(1928)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MS Roda (1928) (page does not exist)">MS <i>Roda</i></a>. <i>Roda</i> was carrying a clandestine cargo of anti-aircraft artillery and ammunition for the German invasion force. Bergen, Stavanger, <a href="/wiki/Egersund" title="Egersund">Egersund</a>, Kristiansand, <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Arendal" title="Capture of Arendal">Arendal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Horten_(town)" title="Horten (town)">Horten</a>, Trondheim and Narvik were attacked and occupied within 24 hours. Ineffective resistance by the Norwegian armoured coastal defence ships <a href="/wiki/HNoMS_Norge" title="HNoMS Norge"><i>Norge</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HNoMS_Eidsvold" title="HNoMS Eidsvold"><i>Eidsvold</i></a> took place at Narvik. Both ships were torpedoed and sunk with great loss of life.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200519-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 April <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Narvik" class="mw-redirect" title="First Battle of Narvik">The First Battle of Narvik</a> took place between five destroyers of the Royal Navy and the landing force of ten destroyers of the Kriegsmarine. Both parties lost two destroyers, but on 13 April a British attack by the battleship <a href="/wiki/HMS_Warspite_(03)" title="HMS Warspite (03)">HMS <i>Warspite</i></a> and a flotilla of destroyers succeeded in sinking the remaining eight German destroyers, which were trapped in Narvik because of lack of fuel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519–20_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200519–20-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The towns Nybergsund, Elverum, <a href="/wiki/%C3%85ndalsnes" title="Åndalsnes">Åndalsnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Molde_(town)" title="Molde (town)">Molde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kristiansund_(town)" title="Kristiansund (town)">Kristiansund N</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steinkjer_(town)" title="Steinkjer (town)">Steinkjer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Namsos_(town)" title="Namsos (town)">Namsos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bod%C3%B8_(town)" title="Bodø (town)">Bodø</a>, and Narvik were devastated by German bombing; some of them were tactically bombed, others terror-bombed. The main German land campaign advanced northward from Oslo with superior equipment; Norwegian soldiers with turn-of-the-century weapons, along with some British and French troops, <a href="/wiki/Namsos_campaign" title="Namsos campaign">stopped the invaders for a time</a> before yielding; this was the first land combat between the British Army and the Wehrmacht in World War II. </p><p>In land battles at Narvik, Norwegian and Allied forces under General <a href="/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Fleischer" title="Carl Gustav Fleischer">Carl Gustav Fleischer</a> achieved the first major tactical victory against the Wehrmacht in WWII. German forces then <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gratangen" title="Battle of Gratangen">overpowered Norwegian troops</a> at Gratangen. The King and his cabinet evacuated from Molde to Tromsø on 29 April, and the Allies evacuated from Åndalsnes on 1 May. Resistance in Southern Norway then came to an end. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hegra_Fortress" title="Hegra Fortress">Hegra Fortress</a> continued to <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hegra_Fortress" title="Battle of Hegra Fortress">resist German attacks</a> until 5 May – it was of Allied propaganda importance, like Narvik. <a href="/wiki/Haakon_VII" title="Haakon VII">King Haakon VII</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olav_V_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Olav V of Norway">Crown Prince Olav</a>, and the Cabinet Nygaardsvold left from Tromsø <a href="/wiki/7_June_in_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="7 June in Norway">7 June</a> aboard the British cruiser <a href="/wiki/HMS_Devonshire_(39)" title="HMS Devonshire (39)">HMS <i>Devonshire</i></a> to represent Norway in exile. The King would return to Oslo on that exact date five years later. <a href="/wiki/Princess_M%C3%A4rtha_Louise_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Märtha Louise of Sweden">Crown Princess Märtha</a> and children, denied asylum in her native Sweden,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> later left from <a href="/wiki/Pechengsky_District" title="Pechengsky District">Petsamo</a>, Finland, to live in exile in the United States. The Norwegian Army in mainland Norway capitulated on 10 June 1940, two months after <i>Wesertag.</i> That made Norway the occupied country that had withstood a German invasion for the longest time before succumbing. Despite the surrender of the main Norwegian forces, the Royal Norwegian Navy and other armed forces continued fighting the Germans <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Armed_Forces_in_exile" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian Armed Forces in exile">abroad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_resistance_movement" title="Norwegian resistance movement">at home</a> until the German capitulation on 8 May 1945. </p><p>In the far north, Norwegian, French and Polish troops, supported by the Royal Navy and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> (RAF), fought against the Germans over the control of the Norwegian harbour Narvik, important for the year-round export of Swedish iron ore. The Germans were driven out of Narvik on 28 May, but the deteriorating situation on the European continent made the Allied troops withdraw in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Alphabet" title="Operation Alphabet">Operation Alphabet</a>, and on 9 June, the Germans recaptured Narvik, which was also now abandoned by civilians because of massive Luftwaffe bombing.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Encircling_of_Sweden_and_Finland">Encircling of Sweden and Finland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Encircling of Sweden and Finland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lapland1940.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Lapland1940.png/220px-Lapland1940.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Lapland1940.png/330px-Lapland1940.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Lapland1940.png 2x" data-file-width="339" data-file-height="293" /></a><figcaption>Iron ore is extracted in <a href="/wiki/Kiruna" title="Kiruna">Kiruna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malmberget" title="Malmberget">Malmberget</a> and brought by rail to the harbours of <a href="/wiki/Lule%C3%A5" title="Luleå">Luleå</a> and <a href="/wiki/Narvik_(town)" title="Narvik (town)">Narvik</a>. (Borders 1920–1940)</figcaption></figure> <p>Operation Weserübung did not include a military assault on neutral Sweden because there was no strategic reason.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> By holding Norway, the <a href="/wiki/Danish_straits" title="Danish straits">Danish straits</a> and most of the shores of the Baltic Sea, the Third Reich encircled Sweden from the north, the west and the south. In the east, there was the Soviet Union, the successor of Sweden's and Finland's archenemy, Russia, on friendly terms with Hitler under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a>. A small number of Finnish volunteers helped the Norwegian Army against Germans in an ambulance unit.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Swedish and Finnish trade was dependent on the <i>Kriegsmarine</i>, and Germany put pressure on neutral Sweden to permit <a href="/wiki/Transit_of_German_troops_through_Scandinavia_(WWII)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transit of German troops through Scandinavia (WWII)">transit of military goods and soldiers on leave</a>. On 18 June 1940, an agreement was reached. Soldiers were to travel unarmed and not be part of unit movements. A total of 2.14 million German soldiers, as well as more than 100,000 German military railway carriages, crossed Sweden until that traffic was suspended on 20 August 1943.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 19 August 1940, Finland agreed to grant access to its territory for the <i>Wehrmacht</i>, with the agreement signed on 22 September. Initially for transit of troops and military equipment to and from northernmost Norway but soon it included minor bases along the transit road that eventually would grow in preparation for <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nuremberg_Trials">Nuremberg Trials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Nuremberg Trials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1941 <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran" title="Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran">Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran</a>, and the 1940 German invasion of Norway have been argued to be preemptive, with the German defense in the <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" title="Nuremberg trials">Nuremberg trials</a> in 1946 arguing that Germany was "compelled to attack Norway by the need to forestall an Allied invasion and that her action was therefore preemptive".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDouglas1997211–212_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDouglas1997211–212-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German defence was to attempt to refer to Plan R 4 and its predecessors. However, it was determined that Germany had discussed invasion plans as early as 3 October 1939 in a memo from <a href="/wiki/Admiral_Raeder" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral Raeder">Admiral Raeder</a> to <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg" title="Alfred Rosenberg">Alfred Rosenberg</a> whose subject was "gaining bases in Norway".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Raeder had begun by asking questions such as "Can bases be gained by military force against Norway's will, if it is impossible to carry this out without fighting?"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Norway was vital to Germany as a transport route for iron ore from Sweden, a supply that the United Kingdom was determined to stop. One British plan was to go through Norway and occupy cities in Sweden.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An Allied invasion was ordered on 12 March, and the Germans intercepted radio traffic setting 14 March as deadline for the preparation. Peace in Finland interrupted the Allied plans.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two diary entries by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jodl" title="Alfred Jodl">Alfred Jodl</a> dated 13 and 14 March did not indicate any high-level awareness of the Allied plan but also that Hitler was actively considering putting <i>Weserübung</i> into operation. The first said, "Führer does not give order yet for 'Weser Exercise'. He is still looking for an excuse".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second: "Führer has not yet decided what reason to give for Weser Exercise".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was not until 2 April 1940 that German preparations were completed and the Naval Operational Order for <i>Weserübung</i> was issued on 4 April 1940. The new Allied plans were "Wilfred" and Plan R 4. The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action, UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim, and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy <a href="/wiki/Stavanger_Airport,_Sola" class="mw-redirect" title="Stavanger Airport, Sola">Sola airfield</a>. However, "the mines were not laid until the morning of 8 April, by which time the German ships were advancing up the Norwegian coast".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196068_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196068-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg determined that no Allied invasion was imminent and so rejected the German argument that Germany was entitled to attack Norway.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Danish_military_equipment_of_World_War_II" title="List of Danish military equipment of World War II">List of Danish military equipment of World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kristiansand_(1940)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Kristiansand (1940)">Battle of Kristiansand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Norwegian_military_equipment_of_World_War_II" title="List of Norwegian military equipment of World War II">List of Norwegian military equipment of World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_occupation_of_the_Faroe_Islands_in_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II">British occupation of the Faroe Islands in World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_British_military_equipment_of_World_War_II" title="List of British military equipment of World War II">List of British military equipment of World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_French_World_War_II_military_equipment" class="mw-redirect" title="List of French World War II military equipment">List of French World War II military equipment</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kampf_um_Norwegen_%E2%80%93_Feldzug_1940" title="Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940">Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940</a></i> (1940 documentary film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_German_military_equipment_of_World_War_II" title="List of German military equipment of World War II">List of German military equipment of World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe_Order_of_Battle_April_1940" class="mw-redirect" title="Luftwaffe Order of Battle April 1940"><i>Luftwaffe</i> Order of Battle April 1940</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway" title="German occupation of Norway">German occupation of Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Juno" title="Operation Juno">Operation Juno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung%27s_effects_on_Sweden" title="Operation Weserübung's effects on Sweden">Operation Weserübung's effects on Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Norwegian_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of the Norwegian Campaign">Timeline of the Norwegian Campaign</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The British plan which was adopted was more modest. While ostensibly intended to bring Allied troops to the Finnish front, it laid its main emphasis on operations in northern Norway and Sweden. The main striking force was to land at Narvik and advance along the railroad to its eastern terminus at Lulea, occupying Kiruna and Gallivare along the way. By late April two Allied brigades were to be established along that line."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196059_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196059-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The British held back two divisions from France, intending to put them into the field in Norway, and planned to expand their force eventually to 100,000 men. The French intended to commit about 50,000. The British and French staffs agreed that the latter half of March would be the best time for going into Norway."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196066–67_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196066–67-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The objectives were to take Narvik, the railroad, and the Swedish ore fields","an intercepted radio message setting 14 March as the deadline for preparation of transport groups indicated that the Allied operation was getting under way. But another message, intercepted on the 15th, ordering the submarines to disperse revealed that the peace [in Finland] had disrupted the Allied plan."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196067–68_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196067–68-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Lunde542-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Lunde542_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLunde2009" class="citation book cs1">Lunde, Henrik 0. (2009). <i>Hitler's pre-emptive war: The Battle for Norway, 1940</i>. Newbury: Casemate Publishers. p. 542. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1932033-92-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1932033-92-2"><bdi>978-1932033-92-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hitler%27s+pre-emptive+war%3A+The+Battle+for+Norway%2C+1940&rft.place=Newbury&rft.pages=542&rft.pub=Casemate+Publishers&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1932033-92-2&rft.aulast=Lunde&rft.aufirst=Henrik+0.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_numeric_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Derry230-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Derry230_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDerryButler1952" class="citation book cs1">Derry, T.K.; Butler, J.R.M. (1952). <i>The Campaign in Norway. History of the Second World War</i>. Campaigns Series (1st ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 230.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Campaign+in+Norway.+History+of+the+Second+World+War&rft.place=London&rft.series=Campaigns+Series&rft.pages=230&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Her+Majesty%27s+Stationery+Office&rft.date=1952&rft.aulast=Derry&rft.aufirst=T.K.&rft.au=Butler%2C+J.R.M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZabecki2014323-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZabecki2014323_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZabecki2014">Zabecki 2014</a>, p. 323.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-marinen-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-marinen_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNøkleby1995" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Berit_N%C3%B8kleby" title="Berit Nøkleby">Nøkleby, Berit</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010113005006">"marinen"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl" title="Hans Fredrik Dahl">Dahl</a>; <a href="/wiki/Guri_Hjeltnes" title="Guri Hjeltnes">Hjeltnes</a>; <a href="/wiki/Berit_N%C3%B8kleby" title="Berit Nøkleby">Nøkleby</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nils_Johan_Ringdal" title="Nils Johan Ringdal">Ringdal</a>; <a href="/wiki/%C3%98ystein_S%C3%B8rensen" title="Øystein Sørensen">Sørensen</a> (eds.). <i><a href="/wiki/Norsk_krigsleksikon_1940%E2%80%9345" class="mw-redirect" title="Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45">Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45</a></i> (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. pp. 262–264. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/82-02-14138-9" title="Special:BookSources/82-02-14138-9"><bdi>82-02-14138-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=marinen&rft.btitle=Norsk+krigsleksikon+1940%E2%80%9345&rft.place=Oslo&rft.pages=262-264&rft.pub=Cappelen&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=82-02-14138-9&rft.aulast=N%C3%B8kleby&rft.aufirst=Berit&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Furn.nb.no%2FURN%3ANBN%3Ano-nb_digibok_2010113005006&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-marinensfar-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-marinensfar_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThowsen1995" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Atle_Thowsen" title="Atle Thowsen">Thowsen, Atle</a> (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2010113005006">"marinens fartøyer"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Hans_Fredrik_Dahl" title="Hans Fredrik Dahl">Dahl</a>; <a href="/wiki/Guri_Hjeltnes" title="Guri Hjeltnes">Hjeltnes</a>; <a href="/wiki/Berit_N%C3%B8kleby" title="Berit Nøkleby">Nøkleby</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nils_Johan_Ringdal" title="Nils Johan Ringdal">Ringdal</a>; <a href="/wiki/%C3%98ystein_S%C3%B8rensen" title="Øystein Sørensen">Sørensen</a> (eds.). <i><a href="/wiki/Norsk_krigsleksikon_1940%E2%80%9345" class="mw-redirect" title="Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45">Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–45</a></i> (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 264. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/82-02-14138-9" title="Special:BookSources/82-02-14138-9"><bdi>82-02-14138-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=marinens+fart%C3%B8yer&rft.btitle=Norsk+krigsleksikon+1940%E2%80%9345&rft.place=Oslo&rft.pages=264&rft.pub=Cappelen&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=82-02-14138-9&rft.aulast=Thowsen&rft.aufirst=Atle&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Furn.nb.no%2FURN%3ANBN%3Ano-nb_digibok_2010113005006&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBooth199844–49_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBooth1998">Booth 1998</a>, pp. 44–49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetrow197415-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetrow197415_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPetrow1974">Petrow 1974</a>, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOutze1962359-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOutze1962359_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOutze1962">Outze 1962</a>, p. 359.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchrøder1999_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSchrøder1999">Schrøder 1999</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDanish_Jewish_Museum2003-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDanish_Jewish_Museum2003_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDanish_Jewish_Museum2003">Danish Jewish Museum 2003</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWebb2007-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWebb2007_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWebb2007">Webb 2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJacobsen2016" class="citation book cs1">Jacobsen, Alf R. (2016). <i>Kongens nei – 10. april 1940</i> (2nd ed.). Oslo: Vega Forlag. p. 42. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-82-8211-279-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-82-8211-279-6"><bdi>978-82-8211-279-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Kongens+nei+%E2%80%93+10.+april+1940&rft.place=Oslo&rft.pages=42&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Vega+Forlag&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-82-8211-279-6&rft.aulast=Jacobsen&rft.aufirst=Alf+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200518-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200518_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRohwer2005">Rohwer 2005</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetrow197472-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPetrow197472_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPetrow1974">Petrow 1974</a>, p. 72.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200519-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRohwer2005">Rohwer 2005</a>, p. 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERohwer200519–20-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERohwer200519–20_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRohwer2005">Rohwer 2005</a>, pp. 19–20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDouglas1997211–212-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDouglas1997211–212_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcDouglas1997">McDouglas 1997</a>, pp. 211–212.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYale_Law_School2008_18-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYale_Law_School2008">Yale Law School 2008</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196059-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196059_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZiemke1960">Ziemke 1960</a>, p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196066–67-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196066–67_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZiemke1960">Ziemke 1960</a>, pp. 66–67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196067–68-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196067–68_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZiemke1960">Ziemke 1960</a>, pp. 67–68.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiemke196068-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiemke196068_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZiemke1960">Ziemke 1960</a>, p. 68.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBooth1998" class="citation book cs1">Booth, Owen (1998). <i>The Illustrated History of World War II</i>. 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New York: Springer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-079232-584-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-079232-584-0"><bdi>978-079232-584-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+International+Law+of+War%3ATransnational+Coercion+and+World+Public+Order&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-079232-584-0&rft.aulast=McDouglas&rft.aufirst=Myres&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOutze1962" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Outze, Børge (1962). <i>Danmark under anden verdenskrig</i> (in Danish). 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London: William Morrow & Co. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-068800-275-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-068800-275-6"><bdi>978-068800-275-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bitter+Years%3B+The+Invasion+and+Occupation+of+Denmark+and+Norway%2C+April+1940-May+1945&rft.place=London&rft.pub=William+Morrow+%26+Co&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=978-068800-275-6&rft.aulast=Petrow&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbitteryears00rich&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRohwer2005" class="citation book cs1">Rohwer, J. (2005). <i>Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 October</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Operation+Against+the+Danish+Jews+in+October+1943&rft.pub=The+Danish+Jewish+Museum&rft.date=2003&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewmus.dk%2Fmitzvah_1.asp%3Flanguage%3Duk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOperation+Weser%C3%BCbung" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Norway/index.html#contents">The Campaign in Norway</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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front</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Australian_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="Australian home front during World War II">Australian</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United Kingdom home front during World War II">United Kingdom</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United States home front during World War II">United States</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">Lend-Lease</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Manhattan_Project" title="Manhattan Project">Manhattan Project</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/British_contribution_to_the_Manhattan_Project" title="British contribution to the Manhattan Project">British contribution</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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II">Technology</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_technological_cooperation_during_World_War_II" title="Allied technological cooperation during World War II">Allied cooperation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mulberry_harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulberry harbour">Mulberry harbour</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Total_war#World_War_II" title="Total war">Total war</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II" title="Strategic bombing during World War II">Strategic bombing</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_puppet_states" title="List of World War II puppet states">Puppet states</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Women_in_World_War_II" title="Women in World War II">Women</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Art_and_World_War_II" title="Art and World War II">Art and World War II</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Music_in_World_War_II" title="Music in World War II">Music in World War II</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Weather_events_during_wars#World_War_II" title="Weather events during wars">Weather events during World War II</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_theaters_and_campaigns_of_World_War_II" title="List of theaters and campaigns of World War II">Theaters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Asiatic-Pacific_theater" title="Asiatic-Pacific theater">Asia and Pacific</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">China</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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Atlantic">Atlantic</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic">timeline</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/American_Theater_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Theater (World War II)">Americas</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_II" title="Aftermath of World War II">Aftermath</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Decolonization" title="Decolonization">Decolonization</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">Division of Korea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950)" title="Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)">Expulsion of Germans</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greek_Civil_War" title="Greek Civil War">Greek Civil War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Keelhaul" title="Operation Keelhaul"><i>Keelhaul</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a></span></li> <li><span 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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Unit_731" title="Unit 731">Unit 731</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East" title="International Military Tribunal for the Far East">Prosecution</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Usta%C5%A1e" title="Ustaše">Croatian war crimes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia">Genocide of Serbs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia">Persecution of Jews</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#The_Holocaust" title="History of the Jews in Romania">Romanian war crimes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Sexual violence</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II" title="German military brothels in World War II">German military brothels</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_camp_brothels_in_World_War_II" title="German camp brothels in World War II">Camp brothels</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany" title="Rape during the occupation of Germany">Rape during the occupation of Germany</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan" title="Rape during the occupation of Japan">Japan</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_Soviet_occupation_of_Poland" title="Rape during the Soviet occupation of Poland">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_France" title="Rape during the liberation of France">Rape during the liberation of France</a>  /  <a href="/wiki/Rape_during_the_liberation_of_Serbia" title="Rape during the liberation of Serbia">Serbia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sook_Ching" title="Sook Ching">Sook Ching</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">Comfort women</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Manila_massacre#Mass_rapes" title="Manila massacre">Rape of Manila</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Marocchinate" title="Marocchinate">Marocchinate</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_by_country" title="World War II by country">Participants</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Algeria_in_World_War_II" title="Algeria in World War II">Algeria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Australia during World War II">Australia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgium_in_World_War_II" title="Belgium in World War II">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brazil_in_World_War_II" title="Brazil in World War II">Brazil</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgaria during World War II">Bulgaria</a> (<a href="/wiki/1944_Bulgarian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1944 Bulgarian coup d'état">from September 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Canada_in_World_War_II" title="Canada in World War II">Canada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">China</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cuba_during_World_War_II" title="Cuba during World War II">Cuba</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">Czechoslovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Denmark_in_World_War_II" title="Denmark in World War II">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War" title="Second Italo-Ethiopian War">Ethiopia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eswatini_in_World_War_II" title="Eswatini in World War II">Eswatini</a> (formerly Swaziland)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II" title="Finland in World War II">Finland</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lapland_War" title="Lapland War">from September 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/France_during_World_War_II" title="France during World War II">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Free_France" title="Free France">Free France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Greece_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Greece during World War II">Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/India_in_World_War_II" title="India in World War II">India</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Co-belligerent_Army" title="Italian Co-belligerent Army">Italy</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_Civil_War" title="Italian Civil War">from September 1943</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_in_World_War_II" title="Luxembourg in World War II">Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mexico_during_World_War_II" title="Mexico during World War II">Mexico</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Netherlands_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the Netherlands during World War II">Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Newfoundland_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Newfoundland during World War II">Newfoundland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_New_Zealand_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of New Zealand during World War II">New Zealand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_campaign" title="Norwegian campaign">Norway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Philippines_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the Philippines during World War II">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="History of Poland (1939–1945)">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a> (<a href="/wiki/1944_Romanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1944 Romanian coup d'état">from August 1944</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone_in_World_War_II" title="Sierra Leone in World War II">Sierra Leone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_South_Africa_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of South Africa during World War II">South Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Rhodesia_in_World_War_II" title="Southern Rhodesia in World War II">Southern Rhodesia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II" title="Soviet Union in World War II">Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tuva_in_World_War_II" title="Tuva in World War II">Tuva</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II">United Kingdom</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/British_Empire_in_World_War_II" title="British Empire in World War II">British Empire</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of the United States during World War II">United States</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans_in_World_War_II" title="Puerto Ricans in World War II">Puerto Rico</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia" title="World War II in Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_protectorate_of_Albania_(1939%E2%80%931943)" title="Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)">Albania protectorate</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgaria during World War II">Bulgaria</a> (until September 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wang_Jingwei_regime" title="Wang Jingwei regime">Wang Jingwei regime</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Independent State of Croatia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II" title="Finland in World War II">Finland</a> (until September 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German Reich</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hungary_in_World_War_II" title="Hungary in World War II">Hungary</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Azad_Hind" title="Azad Hind">Azad Hind</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_Indochina_in_World_War_II" title="French Indochina in World War II">French Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Iraq</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_Italy_during_World_War_II" title="Military history of Italy during World War II">Italy</a> (until September 1943)</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic" title="Italian Social Republic">Italian Social Republic</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Manchukuo" title="Manchukuo">Manchukuo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Philippine_Republic" title="Second Philippine Republic">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a> (until August 1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Republic_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Slovak Republic (1939–1945)">Slovak Republic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Thailand_in_World_War_II" title="Thailand in World War II">Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Template:Collaboration_with_Axis_Powers" title="Template:Collaboration with Axis Powers">Collaboration</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Neutral_powers_during_World_War_II" title="Neutral powers during World War II">Neutral</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Andorra#20th_and_21st_centuries" title="History of Andorra">Andorra</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bhutan" title="Bhutan">Bhutan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irish_neutrality_during_World_War_II" title="Irish neutrality during World War II">Ireland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liechtenstein_in_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Liechtenstein in World War II">Liechtenstein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Portugal_during_World_War_II" title="Portugal during World War II">Portugal</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spain_during_World_War_II" title="Spain during World War II">Spain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II" title="Sweden during World War II">Sweden</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Switzerland during the World Wars">Switzerland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%931951)" title="Tibet (1912–1951)">Tibet</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vatican_City_during_World_War_II" title="Vatican City during World War II">Vatican City</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_during_World_War_II" title="Resistance during World War II">Resistance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/World_War_II_in_Albania" title="World War II in Albania">Albania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Austrian_resistance" title="Austrian resistance">Austria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgian_Resistance" title="Belgian Resistance">Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_resistance_movement_during_World_War_II" title="Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II">Bulgaria</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_in_the_Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Czech lands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement" title="Danish resistance movement">Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_the_Dutch_East_Indies#Underground_resistance" title="Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Estonian_anti-German_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931944" title="Estonian anti-German resistance movement 1941–1944">Estonia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Arbegnoch" title="Arbegnoch">Ethiopia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_Resistance" title="French Resistance">France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism" title="German resistance to Nazism">Germany</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greek_resistance" title="Greek resistance">Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong#Anti-Japanese_resistance" title="Japanese occupation of Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_resistance_movement" title="Italian resistance movement">Italy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Political_dissidence_in_the_Empire_of_Japan#Dissidence_during_World_War_II" title="Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan">Japan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-occupied_Europe" title="Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe">Jews</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Liberation_Army" title="Korean Liberation Army">Korean Liberation Army</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_Volunteer_Army" title="Korean Volunteer Army">Korean Volunteer Army</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Latvian_anti-Nazi_resistance_movement_1941%E2%80%931945" title="Latvian anti-Nazi resistance movement 1941–1945">Latvia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Resistance_in_Lithuania_during_World_War_II" title="Resistance in Lithuania during World War II">Lithuania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Resistance" title="Luxembourg Resistance">Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malayan_Peoples%27_Anti-Japanese_Army" title="Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army">Malaya</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_resistance" title="Dutch resistance">Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Anti-Japanese_United_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army">Northeast China</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_resistance_movement" title="Norwegian resistance movement">Norway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippine_resistance_against_Japan" title="Philippine resistance against Japan">Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II" title="Polish resistance movement in World War II">Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_anti-communist_resistance_movement" title="Romanian anti-communist resistance movement">Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Free_Thai_Movement" title="Free Thai Movement">Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_partisans" title="Soviet partisans">Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising" title="Slovak National Uprising">Slovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army" title="Ukrainian Insurgent Army">Western Ukraine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Vietnam</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Qu%E1%BB%91c_D%C3%A2n_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3ng" title="Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng">Quốc dân Đảng</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Viet_Minh" title="Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans" title="Yugoslav Partisans">Yugoslavia</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">POWs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Finnish_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Finnish prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">German prisoners</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_Azerbaijan" title="German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_States" title="German prisoners of war in the United States">United States</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Italian prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_World_War_II" title="Japanese prisoners of war in World War II">Japanese prisoners</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Polish_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Polish prisoners of war">German atrocities against Polish POWs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Soviet prisoners</span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_prisoners_of_war_in_Finland" title="Soviet prisoners of war in Finland">Finland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war">atrocities by Germans</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Polish_prisoners-of-war_in_the_Soviet_Union_after_1939" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish prisoners-of-war in the Soviet Union after 1939">Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_prisoners_of_war_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union">Romanian prisoners in the Soviet Union</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_timelines_of_World_War_II" title="List of timelines of World War II">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th id="Prelude" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II" title="Causes of World War II">Prelude</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Abyssinia_Crisis" title="Abyssinia Crisis">Africa</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War" title="Second Italo-Ethiopian War">Second Italo-Ethiopian War</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Events_preceding_World_War_II_in_Asia" title="Events preceding World War II in Asia">Asia</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War" title="Second Sino-Japanese War">Second Sino-Japanese War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battles_of_Khalkhin_Gol" title="Battles of Khalkhin Gol">Battles of Khalkhin Gol</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Events_preceding_World_War_II_in_Europe" title="Events preceding World War II in Europe">Europe</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anschluss" title="Anschluss">Anschluss</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Agreement</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">Occupation of Czechoslovakia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Himmler" title="Operation Himmler">Operation Himmler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_Albania" title="Italian invasion of Albania">Italian invasion of Albania</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1939)" title="Timeline of World War II (1939)">1939</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">Invasion of Poland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Phoney_War" title="Phoney War">Phoney War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1939)" title="Battle of Changsha (1939)">First Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Guangxi" title="Battle of South Guangxi">Battle of South Guangxi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Winter War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1939%E2%80%931940_Winter_Offensive" title="1939–1940 Winter Offensive">1939–1940 Winter Offensive</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1940)" title="Timeline of World War II (1940)">1940</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_campaign" title="Norwegian campaign">Norwegian campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Denmark_(1940)" title="German invasion of Denmark (1940)">German invasion of Denmark</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Zaoyang%E2%80%93Yichang" title="Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang">Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Luxembourg" title="German invasion of Luxembourg">German invasion of Luxembourg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">German invasion of the Netherlands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">German invasion of Belgium</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" title="Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Mediterranean" title="Battle of the Mediterranean">Battle of the Mediterranean</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Western_Desert_campaign" title="Western Desert campaign">North Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/French_West_Africa_in_World_War_II" title="French West Africa in World War II">West Africa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Italian_invasion_of_British_Somaliland" title="Italian invasion of British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hundred_Regiments_Offensive" title="Hundred Regiments Offensive">Hundred Regiments Offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states" title="Occupation of the Baltic states">Baltic states</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina" title="Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina">Eastern Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_French_Indochina" title="Japanese invasion of French Indochina">Japanese invasion of French Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greco-Italian_War" title="Greco-Italian War">Italian invasion of Greece</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Compass" title="Operation Compass">Compass</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1941)" title="Timeline of World War II (1941)">1941</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Henan" title="Battle of South Henan">Battle of South Henan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shanggao" title="Battle of Shanggao">Battle of Shanggao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">Invasion of Yugoslavia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Greece" title="German invasion of Greece">German invasion of Greece</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Crete" title="Battle of Crete">Battle of Crete</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War" title="Anglo-Iraqi War">Anglo-Iraqi War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_South_Shanxi" title="Battle of South Shanxi">Battle of South Shanxi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Syria%E2%80%93Lebanon_campaign" title="Syria–Lebanon campaign">Syria–Lebanon campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/East_African_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="East African campaign (World War II)">East African campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Invasion of the Soviet Union</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Summer_War" title="Summer War">Summer War</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Continuation_War" title="Continuation War">Finland</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Silver_Fox" title="Operation Silver Fox">Silver Fox</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/June_Uprising_in_Lithuania" title="June Uprising in Lithuania">Lithuania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)" title="Battle of Kiev (1941)">Battle of Kiev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran" title="Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran">Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1941)" title="Battle of Changsha (1941)">Second Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad" title="Siege of Leningrad">Siege of Leningrad</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow" title="Battle of Moscow">Battle of Moscow</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Bombing of Gorky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)">Siege of Sevastopol</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">Attack on Pearl Harbor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Thailand" title="Japanese invasion of Thailand">Japanese invasion of Thailand</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong" title="Battle of Hong Kong">Fall of Hong Kong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Philippines campaign (1941–1942)">Fall of the Philippines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1941)" title="Battle of Guam (1941)">Battle of Guam</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wake_Island" title="Battle of Wake Island">Battle of Wake Island</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Malayan_campaign" title="Malayan campaign">Malayan campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Borneo_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Battle of Borneo (1941–1942)">Battle of Borneo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Burma" title="Japanese invasion of Burma">Japanese invasion of Burma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changsha_(1941%E2%80%931942)" title="Battle of Changsha (1941–1942)">Third Battle of Changsha</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Greece)" title="Great Famine (Greece)">Greek famine of 1941–1944</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1942)" title="Timeline of World War II (1942)">1942</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore" title="Fall of Singapore">Fall of Singapore</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Java_Sea" title="Battle of the Java Sea">Battle of the Java Sea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid" title="St Nazaire Raid">St Nazaire Raid</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Christmas_Island" title="Battle of Christmas Island">Battle of Christmas Island</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea" title="Battle of the Coral Sea">Battle of the Coral Sea</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar" title="Battle of Madagascar">Battle of Madagascar</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Zhejiang-Jiangxi_campaign" title="Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign">Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gazala" title="Battle of Gazala">Battle of Gazala</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dutch_Harbor" title="Battle of Dutch Harbor">Battle of Dutch Harbor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Midway" title="Battle of Midway">Battle of Midway</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign" title="Aleutian Islands campaign">Aleutian Islands campaign</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Kiska" title="Japanese occupation of Kiska">Kiska</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Attu" title="Japanese occupation of Attu"> Attu</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Case_Blue" title="Case Blue">Blue</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_El_Alamein" title="First Battle of El Alamein">First Battle of El Alamein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kokoda_Track_campaign" title="Kokoda Track campaign">Kokoda Track campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Rzhev,_summer_1942" title="Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942">Rzhev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dieppe_Raid" title="Dieppe Raid">Jubilee</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein" title="Second Battle of El Alamein">Second Battle of El Alamein</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign" title="Guadalcanal campaign">Guadalcanal campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Torch" title="Operation Torch"><i>Torch</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%931943" title="Chinese famine of 1942–1943">Chinese famine of 1942–1943</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1943)" title="Timeline of World War II (1943)">1943</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Black_May_(1943)" title="Black May (1943)">Black May</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_campaign" title="Tunisian campaign">Tunisian campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_West_Hubei" title="Battle of West Hubei">Battle of West Hubei</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Attu" title="Battle of Attu">Battle of Attu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Gorky_in_World_War_II#June_1943" title="Bombing of Gorky in World War II">Bombing of Gorky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily" title="Allied invasion of Sicily">Allied invasion of Sicily</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Smolensk_operation" title="Smolensk operation">Smolensk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands_campaign" title="Solomon Islands campaign">Solomon Islands campaign</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Cottage" title="Operation Cottage"><i>Cottage</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Battle of the Dnieper</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Allied_invasion_of_Italy" title="Allied invasion of Italy">Allied invasion of Italy</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Armistice_of_Cassibile" title="Armistice of Cassibile">Armistice of Cassibile</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burma_campaign" title="Burma campaign">Burma</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Northern_Burma_and_Western_Yunnan" title="Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan">Northern Burma and Western Yunnan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Changde" title="Battle of Changde">Changde</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)" title="Battle of Kiev (1943)">Second Battle of Kiev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_and_Marshall_Islands_campaign" title="Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign">Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa" title="Battle of Tarawa">Tarawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Makin" title="Battle of Makin">Makin</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" title="Bengal famine of 1943">Bengal famine of 1943</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1944)" title="Timeline of World War II (1944)">1944</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tempest" title="Operation Tempest"><i>Tempest</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino" title="Battle of Monte Cassino">Monte Cassino</a> / <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Anzio" title="Battle of Anzio">Anzio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Korsun%E2%80%93Cherkassy" title="Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy">Korsun–Cherkassy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1944)" title="Battle of Narva (1944)">Narva</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Ichi-Go" title="Operation Ichi-Go"><i>Ichi-Go</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord"><i>Overlord</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings"><i>Neptune</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mariana_and_Palau_Islands_campaign" title="Mariana and Palau Islands campaign">Mariana and Palau</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bagration" title="Operation Bagration"><i>Bagration</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lvov%E2%80%93Sandomierz_offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Lvov–Sandomierz offensive">Western Ukraine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)" title="Battle of Guam (1944)">Second Battle of Guam</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tannenberg_Line" title="Battle of Tannenberg Line">Tannenberg Line</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising" title="Warsaw Uprising">Warsaw Uprising</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Second_Jassy%E2%80%93Kishinev_offensive" title="Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive">Eastern Romania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris" title="Liberation of Paris">Liberation of Paris</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragoon" title="Operation Dragoon"><i>Dragoon</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gothic_Line" title="Gothic Line">Gothic Line</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Belgrade_offensive" title="Belgrade offensive">Belgrade offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lapland_War" title="Lapland War">Lapland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden"><i>Market Garden</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tallinn_offensive" title="Tallinn offensive">Estonia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Crossbow" title="Operation Crossbow"><i>Crossbow</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Combined_Bomber_Offensive" title="Combined Bomber Offensive"><i>Pointblank</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945" title="Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945">Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippines_campaign_(1944%E2%80%931945)" title="Philippines campaign (1944–1945)">Philippines (1944–1945)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf" title="Battle of Leyte Gulf">Leyte</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Syrmian_Front" title="Syrmian Front">Syrmian Front</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Budapest_offensive" title="Budapest offensive">Hungary</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Budapest" title="Siege of Budapest">Budapest</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Burma_campaign_(1944%E2%80%931945)" title="Burma campaign (1944–1945)">Burma (1944–1945)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Ardennes</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte" title="Operation Bodenplatte"><i>Bodenplatte</i></a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%931945" title="Dutch famine of 1944–1945">Dutch famine of 1944–1945</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:5.5em;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;vertical-align:top;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1945%E2%80%931991)" title="Timeline of World War II (1945–1991)">1945</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_offensive" title="Vistula–Oder offensive">Vistula–Oder</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1945)" title="Battle of Manila (1945)">Battle of Manila</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima" title="Battle of Iwo Jima">Battle of Iwo Jima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_in_French_Indochina" title="Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina">Indochina</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vienna_offensive" title="Vienna offensive">Vienna offensive</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Project_Hula" title="Project Hula">Project Hula</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Western_Allied_invasion_of_Germany" title="Western Allied invasion of Germany">Western invasion of 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