1940 Denmark and Norway Occupied! Operation Weserubung

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Hard to find German amateur color film.

Operation Weserubung was the codename for Nazi Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign. The name comes from the German for Operation Weser-Exercise (Unternehmen Weserubung), the Weser being a German river.
In the early morning of April 9, 1940 (Wesertag "Weser Day") Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, ostensibly as a preventive maneuver against a planned, and openly discussed, Franco-British occupation of both these countries. After the invasions, envoys of the Germans informed the governments of Denmark and Norway that the Wehrmacht had come to protect the countries' neutrality against Franco-British aggression. Significant differences in geography, location and climate between the two countries made the actual military operations very dissimilar.
Starting with the invasion of April 9, 1940, Norway was under military occupation of German forces and civil rule of a German commissioner in collaboration with a pro-German puppet government. The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany ended May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe.
This period of occupation, usually referred to as the "war years" or "occupation period" in Norway, had defining significance for Norwegian society, and it is only recently that Norway considers itself as having passed out of the "post-war era".

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