The Danish Navy in WW2
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Although perhaps one of the least-known about belligerent fleet during WW2, Denmark was neutral until Germany launched Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940. The country was swiftly occupied and became a de facto protectorate until its liberation in 1945. The fleet was left untouched until the Germans attempted to seize it and it was scuttled on 29 August 1943. Indeed at that point,
frictions had reach boiling point, since the forced leasing of torpedo boats and minesweepers to the Germans, and the refusal to turn to the German authorities resistance fighters. Among these ships was the coastal battleship Peder Skram and the cruiser Niels Juel, 21 Torpedo Boats, 13 submarines, two minelayers, six minesweepers and four fishery protection vessels. Indeed on the strategic level, Denmark could close any access to the Baltic sea with simple minefields, with coastal batteries to ensure no ship would attempt to get rid of them. Pressure had been high indeed in 1939 from the allied side to join them.
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We DID fight the invasion. But were overwelmed after 4 hours. 11 Danes fell to German forces on April 9. 1940. Honored be their memory.
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Id heard about Denmarks very brief hours long resistance at the border in 1940 but not this much more significant resistance and scuttling in 43, thank you
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Justland is NOT an island, but an peninsula bordering Germany in the south.
FYI, at 8:23 there is film of the Danish King Christian X on his daily ride through the streets of Copenhagen, unaccompanied except by a usual bunch of ordinary citizens riding bikes behind him. Widely remembered as a show of resistance.
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"The war was over before we could raise steam..."
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Brave sailors
Beasts!
Denmark and Norway were both invaded in the early morning of 04/09 1940.
Yes, but the Norwegians resisted more stoutly. At the fortress of Osksrsberg, coastal artillery, sank a German heavy cruiser.
Firstly: It was NOT a
so-called surprise
attack !
The gold reserves (to-
together with Nor-
way's), was removed
and sailed to Britain in
late 1939.
Besides : Many of the
mention ships were
raised later on.
Even the coastal
"battleship" (2×8"
guns) Peder Skram
build in 1898 !
Jutland is a peninsula not an island. It's the only part of Denmark joined to mainland Europe.
9:13 hvad snakker du om? vi har altid været på de allieredes side ;)
Denmark had a navy??
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Yeah, kind of naïve to remain neutral in a war where the enemy is conquering the entire continent. That didn't work out for them. Haha. I guess going off WW1 experience, it made sense.
jon: You REALLY swallowed all that anti-German war propaganda.
Look around you, who wanted to conquer the world, and who has most of the wars going today?
Contrary to this doubtful video, Germany occupied Norway and Denmark because Britain was about to do the same.
The effective control of access to the Baltic Sea was mostly terminated with the construction and then enlargement of the Kiel Canal which joins the North Sea to the Baltic Sea via this all German Canal.
Needless to say the Danes and Norwegians were royally peeved with the construction of this canal.
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Yes they tried in vain to repeat WWI, same foreign minister but different outcome.
Denmark did not fight well at all in WW2. There was no value or point in producing this video. The Danish Navy was ineffective. The only significant Danish achievement was Anders Larsson, who was in the SAS.
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If you want to praise someone, the least you could do is to get their name right: Major Anders Lassen. You lack of accuracy in such a simple matter reflects poorly on how serious your other opinions should be taken. A proud Dane.
@ulrikschackmeyer848 At least I know about him and his achievements in the SAS as well as how he was killed in action. Do you know much about other nationalities who fought heroically in WW2?
By the way, I have lived in Denmark as an expatriate. So, I know much about the Danes.
The only significant Danish achievement was Anders Lassen (not Larsson)? I think you should dig a little more into the subject...
240 danish merchant ships and 6500 danish sailors served in the allied convoys. I think that would count as a significant achievement.
Denmark. Defending Greenland since, who cares?
Greenland cares
@@kaspernielsen9149 inuits and polar bears.
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