Chapter 406: The German Occupation of Norway (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Various!! )
While Chen Feng was busy with domestic affairs, Hitler sent a telegram to Chen Feng, asking him if he wanted Jews, and if he did, then he would provide him with another 100 to 1.5 million Jews in the shortest possible time.
After receiving Delixi's telegram, Chen Feng was stunned at first, and then felt very puzzled. The situation of the Jews is relatively clear: the total population of Jews in the pre-war period was more than 10 million, most of them in Europe, and some in the United States. There were only about 2 million Jews in Germany, and even with the Jews of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries, the total population would not exceed 4 million.
The total number of Jews who have moved to China has now exceeded 1.8 million, and when those military trains arrive in Guisui in a few days, the number of Jews who have moved to China will surely exceed 2 million. 2 million, which is equivalent to the total number of Jews in Germany, Chen Feng believes that this is already the limit that Germany can "sell" to him. Unexpectedly, Hitler could provide him with more than one million Jews, which really surprised Chen Feng.
However, Delisi soon solved his puzzles, and it turned out that Germany had just occupied Norway. Denmark surrendered in just 4 hours, which greatly stimulated Hitler, and the Wehrmacht far exceeded Hitler's expectations, which completely exposed the fanatical ambitions of the mustache.
On January 2, 1940, less than 20 hours after Denmark surrendered, the Germans launched an attack on Norway. Norway is militarily stronger than Denmark, but it is only the tallest of the shorter ones. Compared with Germany, forget it or not, the two are not opponents at the same level at all, and there is no comparison at all.
Norway had six infantry divisions, but they were understaffed and scattered, with two divisions near the capital Oslo and the rest in Christiansund, Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik. In addition, there are 64 ships and 190 aircraft, all of which are overaged.
In contrast to Denmark's unpreparedness, Norway had a well-developed defensive strategy. However, this defensive plan was based on the expeditionary forces sent by Britain and France. I said it before. Norway and Germany are not rivals at the same level at all, so no matter how good Norway's battle plan is, it is impossible to defeat Germany on its own, so Norway pinned its hopes on triggering.
In order to occupy Norway as soon as possible. This time, Germany dispatched 6 infantry divisions, 1 motorized brigade, and a number of independent tank battalions and motorized battalions, totaling 90,000 people, to invade Norway. and 900 aircraft and 184 ships to support and support ground force operations. The campaign to occupy Norway was still commanded by General Volkenhorst.
Originally, according to the predictions of the German command of the former enemy. Although Denmark was weak, it had no problem holding out for three to five days, so when they formulated the plan for the "Wiesel exercise," they divided the entire campaign into two phases. The first stage was the attack on Denmark, and the second was the capture of Norway.
However, the rapid demise of Denmark forced the German army on the front line to change its battle plan, and according to the revised battle plan of the former enemy headquarters, the German army still adopted "blitzkrieg" to deal with the Norwegian army, and at the same time sent a large number of airborne troops to fight together. First of all, the airborne troops were ordered to seize the Fornebu airfield near Oslo, the capital of Norway, and at the same time seize the Sola airfield in Stavanger, on the southwest coast of Norway, where an air base would be established to deal with British attacks from the sea. Then send a large number of ground troops to quickly break through the Norwegian Army's defenses, divide and encircle it all over Norway, and gather and annihilate it at the last time.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, the German army dispatched a large number of airborne troops this time, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops, and in order to ensure that the airborne landing could achieve the expected results, 500 transport planes of the German Fifth Air Force were also ordered to participate in this operation.
On the morning of 2 January, a large number of transport planes took off from the airports of Stad, Schleswig, and Eutertesen in northern Germany, with the goal of capturing the Fonebe airport near Oslo, the Norwegian capital. The original plan was for two companies of paratroopers to parachute at the Fornebu airfield under the cover of fighter planes, and after occupying the airfield, the infantry would parachute down at the airfield by transport planes.
In the eyes of the German commander, Norway and Denmark were actually the same, Denmark surrendered in only 4 hours, presumably Norway could not hold out for long, but in fact the German offensive was not very smooth. Due to the weather, when most of Norway is foggy, there are many layers of dark clouds above the fog, and the visibility is only 20 meters, this kind of weather is not suitable for airborne landing at all. The first wave of attacks was carried out before they lost 2 fighters, and in desperation, the Germans returned home.
The second attack wave was flying towards the Fornebu airfield at an interval of 20 minutes from the first attack wave, carrying officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the 324th Infantry Regiment. The pilots of the second attack wave seemed to be more experienced, and they managed to fly to their targets in the gloomy clouds and fog, despite the adverse weather conditions. Their luck was really good, the weather was sunny and the visibility was good near Oslo. After 3 hours of fighting, the Germans finally captured the Forneb airfield.
When the German airborne forces captured the Fonebe airfield, the German naval fleet carrying land forces was blocked in the Oslo Fjord, and the flagship heavy cruiser "Blucher" was sunk by Norwegian shells and torpedoes at 7:23. At this time, the German carrier-based forces were blocked by Norwegian warships and shore guns outside the port of Oslo and were still unable to dock. In order to quickly occupy Oslo, according to the order of the superiors, the airborne troops landing in Forneb formed several parade formations with 1,500 people, tied ribbons on their heads, and under the cover of the aviation forces, they drove along the main streets into the center of Oslo in the posture of ancient conquerors. The Germans estimated that the Norwegian army would be intimidated by this bluff and would not put up little resistance.
Due to the sudden appearance of the Airborne Forces in the capital, the Norwegian government did not prepare for anything. At the same time, the actions of the German army were coordinated by the 'Fifth Column', a secret service organization headed by Gisling, who not only provided the German army with information on the defense of cities, ports, and airports, the deployment of troops, and military facilities before the war, but also bribed the relevant personnel in key departments to disturb the morale of the troops and carry out subversive and sabotage activities, but also when the German army entered Oslo, the Ghisling elements occupied the radio station and issued false orders ordering the fortresses and ships to surrender to the German army. Thus, the German Airborne Forces bloodlessly occupied the city of 300,000 people. This is the first capital to be occupied by airborne troops in the world. Immediately afterwards, the airborne troops attacked the port from behind and took control of the Oslo Harbor Fortress, allowing more than 2,000 German landing troops to quickly land.
While the Airborne Forces and Naval Landing Forces were attacking from the air and sea, German bomber units carried out deterrent sorties in the Norwegian cities of Christiansund, Egersund, Stavanger and Bergen, and attacked the Cheler airfield in Oslo, the batteries on the islands of the Oslo Fjord, and the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Holmenke Union. The Norwegians could not withstand such strong military pressure, and by the evening of 2 January, most of the Norwegian positions were in the hands of the German airborne troops.
As long as Germany occupies these two countries, it can break the blockade of Britain and France on the German navy, so that German ships can enter the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean unimpeded, and can establish a naval base on the west coast of Norway to restrict the movement of the British navy, which will ensure the security of the northern flank of Germany's attack on Western Europe, and then Germany can turn back and clean up the British and French two countries.
Although Britain and France did not want to go to war with Germany, they had to think about their own safety in this situation, and Britain had no choice but to send an expeditionary force to reinforce Norway. On 6 January, the British 146th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Phillips, with two battalions of troops, entered Namssos at night and moved south through Gelong towards Steinchel. On the night of the same day, more than 600 British marines landed at Andalsnes and advanced to the Dangbosch railway junction in an attempt to cut the railway line from Oslo to Trondheim and divide the German army. Two days later, the 148th Brigade of the British Army also landed in Andalsnes.
At this time, most of the cities and fortified positions in Norway were under German control, and the resistance of the Norwegian army was practically over by January 5, so the ensuing battle became a battle between the Germans and the British.
The Germans, of course, understood the importance of being Bosch, but suffered from a lack of troops, so they could only draw a company of paratroopers to seize the railway junction. On the afternoon of 10 January, 150 paratroopers flew to Dangbosch on a Junker-52 transport plane, but due to a mistake in the airborne, only two officers and 61 soldiers were assembled by the scheduled time. This small army was besieged by nearly 2,000 British and Norwegian troops, and held out for nearly 15 hours and chose to surrender.
Although the British had some victories at sea and in the port of Narvik, they were unable to extend their gains in time due to bad weather and the slow movement of the landing force. At the same time, the Germans controlled central and southern Norway and were already capable of capturing the north. By 14 January, Hitler had again sent troops to Norway. The force under the command of Volkenhorst increased to 80,000 men against 17,000 Norwegian troops and 45,000 British and allied troops.
After half a month of fighting, Germany basically controlled Norway, the Anglo-French forces and other allied armies basically lost the strategic initiative, both the British government and the French government have understood that it is only a matter of time before the Germans capture the entire territory of Norway, even if they increase their forces, it will be useless, it can be said that Norway's defeat is certain.
In this battle, Hitler saw the military strength of Britain and France, and also recognized the strength of the German army, and the two were pleased to find that the combat effectiveness of the German army was much higher than that of Britain and France, which made him extremely happy, and the mustache felt that as long as he had a large amount of financial support, he could fulfill his dream of the Greater German Empire. For this reason, the mustache could not wait to order Delixi to contact Chen Feng and book all the Jews in Denmark and Norway to him. (To be continued......)