The Royal Norwegian Navy in WW2
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Everybody remembered the Norwegian Campaign. It seems at first a contest between the Kriegsmarine (which had remendous losses), and the British and French Navies. But the Norwegian Navy, despite its small size did surprisingly well, using also coastal batteries at the best of its capabilities. The Norwegian campaign of 1940 surely left Hitler a sour taste towards the surface navy for the remainder of the war.
Norway was one of the stakes of the war, with its resources (iron and other metals, coal, and heavy water for an hypothetical nuclear program) and its considerable coastline on the North Atlantic and the Arctic. A Strategic position, it became a target all the more tempting that the Royal Norwegian army was weak, as well as its navy and its aviation.
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Your comment regarding Norwegian iron ore is incorrect. The iron ore was Swedish, being from Kiruna and Gallivare and was exported from Narvik.
And Hitler started the invasion of Norway to preempt a british occuption. The German invasion started 2 days before the british planned to do it.
In opposite to this doc Hitler started the invasion of Norway to preempt a british occuption. The German invasion started 2 days before the british plans. The British invasion force had already boarded.
Second the German navy was small had no experience in amphibious attacks. It had to organize it hastily to preempt a british occupation. There was no reconnaisance prior to the war. The number of troops assigned was small as well. Taking this in account the surprise attack went very well.
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My father stepped off the HMNS Eskdale - a Hunt class destroyer - just hours before she was torpedoed with heavy loss of life by an E-boat outside Portsmouth. He was a German speaker involved in the Huff Duff programme. His next miracle was being on a commandeered paddle wheel Channel steamer in the Aegean and watching a German torpedo pass right underneath the deck they were standing on. The German U-boat mis-judged the shallow draft of this unusual vessel. Why a paddle wheel steamer? Because
all radio direction equipment ran on fragile glass valves and the paddle wheel steamer had the least vibration of available vessels. The transistor had yet to be invented.
Battle of North Cape surely can't be told without mentioning the crazy destroyer from Norway !!
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WHAT?! No mention of BAMSE and the Thorodd?! What kind of video IS this?
fajny kanal!! mozna sie wielu ciekawych rzeczy dowiedziec o flotach Szwecji Finlandi czy Norwegi podczas wojny szkoda ze w Polsce jest malo informacji na ten temat😞 rozumiem ze powinnicmy kultywowac wlasne tradycje morskie ktore wbrew opiniom wcale nie sa takie male ale i poznanie flot panst z nad Baltyku podczas wojny wedlug mnie jest rownie ciekawe i interesujace!! pozdrawiam autora!!!
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It is unfair historically to praise Norway for putting up a longer-lasting defense against the German Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht, and Luftwaffe than Poland was able to put up against German military forces in WWII. For one thing, Poland was a much poorer nation than Norway; for another, Poland--UNLIKE NORWAY--had to contend with *two* simultaneous military invasions at once: one of the Germans from the West, and another from the Soviet Red Army in the East.
A more valid comparison might be between Norway’s resistance to the Nazis and Finland’s surprisingly staunch resistance and even victories over the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939-1940. Unlike Norway, Finland *never* surrendered; infinitely outnumbered by the Soviet Red Army and much less technologically advanced, the Finnish Defense Forces inflicted very heavy losses on the Soviets, and ended up ceding only 9% of its territory to the Soviets when the Winter War ended. And again unlike Norway, Finland had **NO ALLIES** in the Winter War itself. Finland only begrudgingly accepted the help of Nazi Germany against the Soviets *after* the Winter War had ended, and WWII had begun in earnest on the Eastern Front.
Tired of you mis pronunciation of ship names
@@mikearakelian6368, are you responding to my response to the video, or did you intend to reply to the video and instead accidentally replied *to my COMMENT about the video*? I ask because I include no ship names in my comment on the video.
I agree with you, by the way, that the narrator on this channel quite often mispronounces the names of ships. The *worst* example is his calling HMS Warspite “the HMS WarSPIT.” Ugh.
It is even worse comparing the Battle for Norway to the Battle for the Netherlands, a flat country barely 200 km wide right on the German border. The Netherlands also did not have the support of large units of the Royal Navy (plus French and Polish vessels), let alone thousands of Allied ground troops.
Also it's always easier to attack by land then by sea as sinking one troop ship will (in most cases) also 'sink' x number of troops or material..
So first you have the losses at sea and after you land you have the 'normal ' losses
But I have to make a smal correction asl Poland (at least in the beginning) had ONLY to face Germany ,,Rusia entered later
I agree. Britain and France deployed forces to defend Norway; they threw Poland under the bus.
The Brits and the French also had plans to invade neutral Norway, but the Germans beat them to it.
The only reason for the German incasion was the expectation of a British invasion. The British and French troops had already boarded. The German invasion came 2 days prior.
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Brave
Standing!
A ministry spokesperson said.
It is indeed British propaganda.
no surrender
Again, no attempt to use the Norwegian language names but english and german when speaking about german armed forces, submarines etc, why? Bias? Favoritism?
If you can't do it for all, then do it for none.
Well do your own video.
Go and make your own video if you don't like it. Until then, grow up kid.
@@CruelandCold Did I state anything about the video or it's content being of p0or quality? They are in fact quite good except for his proclivity to go out of his way and use german language terms while for every other nationality he uses english.
@@gibraltersteamboatco888He mispronounced the german terms, so I'd prefer if he stuck to English.
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 This
Either pronounce them correctly ..or as close as possible (even google can help) or just use the 'english' names
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