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Military history of Denmark during World War II

  • German invasion of Denmark (1940)On the 4th of April, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr and a man involved in the German resistance to Nazism, warned the Danes of an imminent…
  • Operation WeserübungBy the spring of 1939, the British Admiralty began to view Scandinavia as a potential theatre of war in a future conflict with Nazi Germany.