NAZI Germany’s Invasion of Norway

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Hitler sent a fleet of ships to take Oslo, the Capital of Norway in April 1940. To reach Oslo you must sail up a long narrow sound. Which Norway had long ago built defenses to protect.

While the government waffled back and forth on fighting or simply surrendering, no orders were given on what to do. The first ship that appeared was Germany’s newest ship, the Heavy Cruiser Blucher, packed with 800 ground troops.

As the German fleet appeared, the Norwegian Commander Col Eriksen said Either I will be decorated, or I will be court-martialed. Fire!
This is from the movie The Kings Choice of the sinking of the Blucher.

FYI, He was a hero.

 

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The Norwegians blew up the German's heavy water system used for atomic bombs and then sank the boat that was carrying some of the remaining heavy water.

 

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Blücher remains at the bottom of the Drøbak Narrows, at a depth of 64 metres (35 fathoms). The ship's screws were removed in 1953, and there have been several proposals to raise the wreck since 1963, but none have been carried out.

When Blücher left Germany, she had about 2,670 cubic meters (94,000 cu ft) of oil on board. She expended some of the fuel en route to Norway, and some was lost in the sinking, but she was constantly leaking oil. In 1991 the leakage rate increased to 50 liters (11 imp gal; 13 U.S. gal) per day, threatening the environment. The Norwegian government therefore decided to remove as much oil as possible from the wreck.

In October 1994 the company Rockwater AS, together with deep sea divers, drilled holes in 133 fuel tanks and removed 1,000 t (980 long tons; 1,100 short tons) of oil; 47 fuel bunkers were unreachable and may still contain oil.

After being run through a cleaning process, the oil was sold. The oil extraction operation provided an opportunity to recover one of Blücher's two Arado 196 aircraft. The plane was raised on 9 November 1994 and is currently at the Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola aviation museum near Stavanger.


German cruiser Blücher - Wikipedia

 

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It didn't take long for the entire Scandanavian countries to surrender to the nationalist socialist democratic republic.

 

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It didn't take long for the entire Scandanavian countries to surrender to the nationalist socialist democratic republic.

Sweden remained neutral and Finland was a sort of "sunshine patriot" (for lack of a better description) ally.