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Norwegian campaign

  • Operation WilfredSwedish iron ore flowed through the Gulf of Bothnia to Luleå during the summer months. Winter ice closed this route by December 1939.
  • Norway DebateIn September 1937, Neville Chamberlain became prime minister of a National Government dominated by Conservatives. He succeeded Stanley Baldwin after years of…
  • Norwegian campaignIn the winter months of 1939, a frozen Baltic Sea blocked most German shipping routes. This natural barrier forced Nazi Germany to rely on an alternative…
  • 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.