["The Star-Spangled Banner"]
The Kingdom of Denmark is under the command of the King and every resistance remains.
Denmark, the decisive stage to Norway, will be fought without any fight and without any
disturbance.
The King is usually riding through the streets of Copenhagen on the same day.
In Norway, the conquest of Oslofjord was the most difficult company.
It also took place on 9 April, at the same time with the landing in all other ports.
The fjord is 100 kilometers long and strongly fortified.
The cruiser Blücher, Lütso and Emden are deep in the heart of the fjord.
Two shipyards and two torpedo boats are being towed off to Horten, the important port of
war.
The landing groups are there to fight the morning cold.
The decisive, progressive approach brings the important place with the arsenal in German
hands.
70 men bring in 1,200 prisoners.
In the meantime, the three cruisers continue to enter the fjord in the first twilight and
reach the narrowest point at Oskarsborg-Drøbak, the inner fortress of Norway.
Here the unit has to be immediately under the 28 cm guns and past the torpedo battery
from Oskarsborg.
The heavy coastal guns open fire at 500 meters distance.
Cruiser Blücher hits hard.
Two torpedoes, the torpedo battery on Carhol, seal the fate of the proud ship.
The cruiser Emden and Lütso land their troop transports in the zone.
The advance to Oslo is not a significant resistance.
The torpedo battery, which fell to the victim of Blücher, is hidden in the rocks.
The torpedo is brought to water.
Here the target facility.
And this is the trigger for the torpedo.
The observation slits were very well tarnished with a garden hedge.
From sea, Oslo was not yet to be reached.
But the air transport season of the Norwegian capital is approaching.
The Norwegians had brought MG's to the airfield.
They were fought back.
Some German machines were destroyed on the short airfield.
The landed infantry gathers quickly and marches to Oslo.
The waterway is still blocked by the fortress of Oskarsborg.
The waterway is blocked by the fortress of Oskarsborg.
Now the waterway to Oslo is also free.
The cruiser Emden has secured the port of Oslo.
The wounded of Blücher are brought ashore.
The last honor is bestowed to the dead.
The troops march past General Maj. Engelbrecht.
A day later, the population is panicked by English radio messages.
It is said that the British fleet should appear in a few hours before Oslo and shoot down the city.
But it was of course only a blind alarm.
In the same hour as the German troops enter the Oslo fjord, the landing is carried out in Christian sand.
First, the first attempt fails.
In dense fog, strong enemy resistance must be fought until the coast batteries are silent and the troops can land.
This is Christian sand.
On the return journey, the cruiser Karlsruhe became a victim of the English torpedoes.
Cruiser Königsberg with a course on mountains.
At the same hour, mountains are occupied.
Mountains lie, like most Norwegian port sites, not on the open coast, but behind large pre-laden islands and is only accessible by long narrow waterways.
The entry to the city is blocked by the barrier batteries.
But the
break-in is daring.
The fight is tough.
Landing departments conquer the battery positions of the west and north.
The first troops entering the city are given general title. Please do not confuse him with the Norwegian commander Dietel to demand him to be transferred.
The next day, English planes attack. They sink the already damaged cruiser Königsberg.
The Norwegian batteries are supported by the air force.
The first German planes land in the harbor of Bergen.
The 10 destroyed planes used for Narvik were first in contact with the Drondheim Group, which consists of a heavy cruiser and four other destroyers.
The two battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst are also in contact.
The Cairnhorst-Clairs have a significant share in the success of the company. They constantly report the location of enemy sea battleships.
In the afternoon, Admiral Hipper and four destroyers of the company meet and also attack on April 9 at the recommended time, with high speed through the narrow, from the Norwegians with headlights and guns secured the entry of Drondheims.
The Drondheim.
And the English?
On April 8, that is, before the German landing, the British troops had already been deployed, some of the transports had been run out.
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The British Admiralty reported the appearance of German sea battleships in the North Sea.
The British Admiralty ordered their transport ships, which they suspected to be attacking, to return immediately.
English warships tried to stop the fast German fleet. It was too late.
On the way to Narvik, the German destroyers are in a heavy storm.
People and boats are being approached to the very end. Only the toughness of the perseverance is certain to succeed.
All alone, the destroyers have to find their way to the Ophotfjord without a moat or a sea sign. Before Narvik, the boats are in dense fog. The Norwegians have extinguished the fire.
Storm and poor visibility make it easier to reach the target harbor, which is not seen by the enemy. Two Norwegian coastal tanks are trying to prevent the entry into the harbor of Narvik with armed force. Fires are being sunk.
General Dietl leaves his destroyer and enters a barricade on land. His trade skills manage to avoid the pointless bloodshed.
25 freight steamboats. Ships of all nations are in the harbor. They are mainly loaded with earth.
A German whaler is also among them, who is now a welcome help with his oil supplies. It was foreseen that the destroyers would leave on the same evening.
But the Commodore had to shift the departure again and again. The oil supply provided difficulties. After Narvik, ordered tankers were on the way out of the impact.
While troops occupied Narvik, strong parts of the mountain hunters landed in Bjergvik and took the Norwegian training ground Elvegardsmoon. Their task is to close the area of Narvik north.
On April 9, all important harbors of the Norwegian coast are occupied. The task is also fulfilled in the distant Narvik. The Navy has proved itself brilliantly.
On the following day, in the fog and snow, five English destroyers arrive at the harbor and open fire on the Germans with artillery and torpedoes.
The destroyer wants a half-battle, gets hit hard and sinks. Commodore Bonte dies, the hero dies. These are English recordings.
The English take up their shipwreck. Two of their five destroyers have already been destroyed. Three injured manage to escape.
Two German destroyers have also been eliminated. Another German destroyer is burning.
After ten attempts, it succeeds to extinguish the fire. After the English attack.
The requirements that are put on the distant destroyers are great. Their base of operations Drondheim is 650 kilometers from Narvik.
The first aid from home to Narvik. A large transport aircraft brings ammunition and supplies.
Why this hard fight for Narvik? It's about Erz. In Sweden, the Erzberg lies near Kyröna.
From there, a train leads to the Baltic Sea port Luleå. This harbor is frozen in winter for five to six months.
More important is the Erz train to Narvik, which is free of ice throughout the year due to the impact of the Gulf Stream.
Therefore, Narvik is the big port of the Gulf Stream and an important battlefield in the war.
This is the Erzberg of Kyröna. In peacetime, 10% of its high-quality iron ore was delivered to England and 90% to Germany.
On the Erz train to Narvik.
This lonely house at Björnfjell was the headquarters of General Dietl for many weeks.
The Erz train is located in the last part of the narrowly cut Rombakenfjord.
Arrival in Narvik. The German armor industry was dependent on this Swedish Erz.
England wanted to prevent its transport to Germany. Therefore, the Germans had to get hold of Narvik under all circumstances.
Three days after the landing, on April 13, the English
are entering the fjord with a battleship and nine large destroyers.
One is in the outskirts of Postenburg, where the German destroyer is attacking.
It comes to a difficult fight.
Three more destroyers run out of the harbor of Narvik and intervene in the fight.
The German destroyer is attacked by a large number of destroyers.
After the last German destroyers have shot their ammunition and torpedoes, they take a course on the Rombakenfjord.
It is necessary to remove the ships from the enemy's attack.
The German crews have to destroy their last four destroyers after the teams and a part of the weapons could be secured.
In Narvik, the harbors are heavily damaged.
Almost all ships in the harbor are destroyed and sunk.
But every English landing attempt in Narvik remains in the open.
The crews of the German destroyers in the Rombaksbotten have then worked their way out of this steep slope and reached the earth's coast.
In the meantime, mountain hunters have already arrived on the earth's coast from Narvik.
The crews of the destroyers, about 1,500 men, are rushing into the front of the mountain hunters.
The Marines have not only carried out the transport of the mountain hunters to Narvik under the most difficult circumstances.
With a weapon in hand, they stand in the unusual mountain area for many weeks in the hard fight against enemy superpowers.
The Marine soldiers not only
The Marines soldiers not only
The enemy is thrown. In the morning of the next day, Lillehammer was taken over.
The Germans stood against the English.
The English, who were in our hands, disobeyed the orders for the already planned occupation of Norway.
The further advance leads through the deeply cut down Guitbrandt's valley.
At Kvam, strong resistance must be defeated.
A weak German regiment is attacking in bitter battles.
The division commander, Generalleutnant Pellengard.
North of the Hachtnäck, defended Otta, the railway is less damaged than the road.
Immediately it is used for the advance.
On the last April, Dombos has already been reached.
The advance on Grontheim through the Guitbrandt valley and through the Oester valley in the third week of the field trip.
The group in the Oester valley has also fought hard.
In a part of the Guitbrandt valley, large parts of the second Norwegian division are in daily combat in the mountainous area of the Gaustal and captured.
The Drontheim group under General Major Wojtasz had occupied the English troops in its battles.
11,000 English, French and Norwegians stood only 4,000 Germans across.
Nevertheless, the power of the Allies did not manage to advance to Drontheim.
The landing area can now be extended to the south.
After a battle at Stören, the road to the south is free.
On April 29, three weeks after the start of the Norwegian occupation, the top of Drontheim and Oslo meet.
The most important task in the middle and south of Norway is solved.
The English go to their ships at Orndalsnes and Namsos in silence and secretly.
Meanwhile, the order of the air force was given to General Stumpf.
General Oberst Milch took over a task in the field trip in France.
The air force makes the fleeing enemy the shipwreck to hell.
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We retreated without losing a single man...
...and thus committed a deed that will live on in the annals of war history...
...as one of the greatest in its kind.
But what did this retreat really look like?
On May 3rd, the German air force blasts English sea forces at Namsos.
The use of the German air force by bombs on warships during the field trip in Norway...
...is a turning point in the history of the whole Sea War.
The coastline is extended by the air force by many hundred kilometres.
The English fleet is only a matter of delaying their use.
After the escape of the English from Orndalsnes and Namsos...
...the rest of the 2nd Norwegian Division have laid down their arms at Orndalsnes.
The 5th Norwegian Brigade is also at Snorza.
Even after a few weeks, before the decision was made in Norway...
...the Norwegian prisoners were released.
In the last week of April, the west Norway was also cleared...
...and the connection between Oslo and Bergen was established...
...as well as the Sonjefjord.
General Engelbrecht turns from Gøvik to Sonjefjord.
The march takes place on several streets.
At Bagen, the Norwegians are particularly tough.
In the course of the march, one column also passes through Gål.
It cuts off the way to Sonjefjord at Borlaug.
Since the high mountains are a great escape to the north...
...the 4th Norwegian Brigade has to lay down their arms with 3,000 men.
The Bergen group and General Major Titel are in their weak position...
...and are advancing along the Van and the Hardanger fjord.
Part of the navy is brought deep into the fjord.
The deployed army in difficult mountain marches...
...is supported by the air force Foss in battle.
Parts of the army are passing through the Mørdalen tunnel...
...to the halfway through Gål.
Now, on May 1st, soldiers of the Bergen group meet soldiers of the Oslo group.
On the same day, the Sonjefjord is also reached.
The important connections between Oslo and Bergen are established.
The south and central Norwegians are satisfied.
While the army and the air force were doing their job...
...the navy and the flak were at the most important points on the coast.
Every approach from ships and planes is a strong counterattack.
The military success of Germany means...
...a significant drop in raw materials for England.
England loses with Scandinavia. 81% of its cell population is lost.
The remaining
...of the German army is lost.
The remaining
...of the German army is lost.
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Significant landing ports were built, especially to monitor the English fleet movements.
The Norwegian ports have become a valuable starting point for the sea-fighting forces.
The Norwegian fleet is a major part of the Norwegian navy.
Narvik.
Five weeks ago, our mountain hunters, the destroyers and General Dietl fought and survived up here.
These days, they have reached the news of the beginning of the fight against France,
which is full of enthusiastic excitement in the hearts of the Narvik fighters.
After landing in Narvik, the coast was secured.
The air train was occupied to the Swedish border.
Weak forces of the North Group pushed from Elvegård's Moon to the next fjord and destroyed a Norwegian battalion.
In total, the entire area of Narvik, the group Dietl, is only available to almost 3,500 mountain hunters and marine soldiers.
The English have now created an operation base in Harstad.
Their destroyers, Narvik and the Irktsban, are constantly firing.
When they succeed in destroying the ferry over the Rombachen fjord, the direct connection between the North Group and Narvik is interrupted.
The supply for the North Group must now be brought to the mountain path of Björnfjell.
At the beginning of May, the enemy's pressure begins to make itself felt at various points.
At Elvenes, through Norwegian forces.
In the Rathangen fjord, through the landing of French Alpine hunters.
And southwest of Narvik, through the landing of the English and Poles.
Reinforcements take place at the Irktsban near Björnfjell, because there are no airfields in the rock terrain around Narvik.
The German soldiers are not allowed to defend themselves against attacks of five to six times the force.
There are no roads, there are no accommodations.
The German soldiers in these barren, snow-covered mountain heights are infinitely tough.
The Fallschirmjäger immediately enter the defensive battle.
The Irktsban, partially destroyed by the Norwegians, is soon put back in operation.
Captain Leutnant as the station commander.
In this wild landscape, the burying of the wounded is particularly difficult.
The Alirts prepare a destruction strike against the troops of General Dietl.
They have decided to land at Birkbeck and attack the North group in flank and back.
On May 13, 14 warships and transporters with French Alpine hunters appear in front of Birkbeck.
Film recordings of the French give us a clear picture of the course of the operation.
The hunt is on fire.
On this front line stands a single company of mountain hunters with marine soldiers.
They lay in the heaviest fire of the ship's artillery for many hours.
The enemy fires from over 100 barrels, from caliber 2 to 38 centimeters.
The German soldiers have nothing to resist, but also nothing to resist as rifles and some machine guns.
The enemy's landing boat.
In the course of the attack, the French storm forward.
Here and there, the enemy strikes at the enemy from a few masts of MG fire.
The oppressive force of the Lege, the Narvik fighters, are in French captivity.
The enemy plan is to flank.
At the same time, the North group withdraws under the lead of the highest wind of the encirclement and withdraws to a shortened defensive position.
The French land more troops.
The situation of the small German battle force is getting more and more threatening.
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Everything is missing.
The ammunition is scarce.
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So, for many weeks, the Narvikämpfer were in ice and snow, in cold and wet.
General Dietl is coming. His soldiers are in no danger. He is a role model.
The village can only send weak help. This time it is mountain hunters who have been trained for the wrong turn in just a few days.
On May 28, when French Alpine hunters and Norwegians land at Narvik, the city must be given back to heroic resistance.
The retreat took place along the earth's surface and the Baisfjord.
First, a line of defense was drawn in the extremely difficult mountainous terrain between the Strömmenenge and the Silpniksee.
Two days later, the front lines are shortened at the Rombachenfjord. The North group must also give way to the strong enemy pressure.
Despite the lack of visibility, nobody thinks about the task.
When the Narvik retreat takes place, the earth's lines and the strong power lines are destroyed.
Immediately after the escape of the English from Namsos, the forces of the group Dietl, newly brought to the north, march to the north.
Norwegians and the English who landed in Hodø, are fighting the resistance. They are beaten.
The German troops march to the north without rest. The only road is paved by the snowmobile and is hardly passable.
The Fjord breaks the road several times. The ferries are destroyed or driven away.
But our countrymen know how to help. They must continue, because every day is comfortable.
The front line is already climbing over the mountains. A ferry is impulsed here by means of a truck.
The Polar Circle is crossed by the German troops.
After fighting at Hemnesberget and Finnald, through difficult crossings over the mountain rivers and deep fjords, the Polar Circle is crossed on May 23.
Some of these men have marched from Oslo to here, 1100 kilometers. The troops continue to fight.
The German army is advancing.
General Feuerschrein, the leader of this company.
The German army is advancing.
Some of the troops are moving north with transport planes.
The Polar Circle is built into a new airfield.
30,000 trees are cut down and a new city is built.
The air force can now help the forced Norvig fighters with a stowaway.
The aid of the army for Norvig, the so-called Böffel company, must be led by Sir Folth from near the Swedish border through a roadless, uninhabited mountainous area.
Four camps are to be set up between Sir Folth and Norvig.
Supply and ammunition supply can only be done by parachute drop.
The difficulties the terrain provides are immense.
The weather is also unthinkable.
Without a path and without a path, it goes across the mountains, through landscapes that have not been walked by any human foot so far. In time, several thousand men will reinforce our troops around Norvig.
On the 9th of June, the front of the battalion reaches camp 2.
The point is just before Norvig.
The situation of the Norvig fighters has become more and more serious.
The ring is getting tighter and tighter.
The mountain hunters and marine soldiers are still holding out.
The Allies suddenly start their attacks against the group of Dietl and even the city of Norvig is being occupied on the 8th of June.
Why?
The defeat of the Dünnkirchen, the use of strong Stuka-units around Norvig, and the rapid effect of the Böffel company force the enemy to leave the occupied area.
The fierce resistance of the small herd of mountain hunters and marine soldiers breaks their great efforts and hopes.
On the return to England, the English unexpectedly come across a German fleet unit that should also lead the relief of Norvig.
It comes to attack.
The Orama, a transporter with 21,000 tons, is following a tanker on the sea.
Finally, the long-awaited aircraft carrier is in sight.
The Glorious with 22,500 tons.
An English destroyer tries to save the aircraft carrier from a fog wall.
It is invisible. Aircraft carrier, aircraft and destroyers are going to the bottom of the sea.
On the German side there are no losses to be complained.
The Norwegians see that every other resistance is useless and on the 10th of June, in the Hotel Britannia in Drondheim, they set the signature under the capitulation order.
The fight against England in Norway is decided.
The leader himself has recognized the performance of our army with the following words.
This blow was the coolest company in German war history.
Its successful execution was only possible thanks to the leadership and attitude of all the German soldiers involved in it.
What our three weapons, the army, the navy and the air force, achieved in this fight against Norway, ensures the evaluation of the highest soldier's service.