Norway 1940: The Siege of Narvik
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Sources:
Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years: The invasion and Occupation of
Denmark and Norway April 1940-May 1945 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974).
James Holland, The War in the West - A New History Vol. 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 (kindle edition)
Corelli Barnett, Engage The Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (Penguin, 1991)
Henrik Lunde, Hitler’s Preemptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. (kindle edition)
Earl Ziemke, German Northern Theater of Operations 1940-1945. (kindle edition)
Video:
Clips from 'Deutsche Wochenschau: Der Kampf um Norwegen' a wartime German newsreel/propaganda film:
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Music:
“Industrial Cinematic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“Rynos Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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I hope you’ve enjoyed this series on the Battle for Norway in 1940. I’ve had a lot of fun making it, and later this year I plan to start a series on D-Day. If that sounds like something you’d like to support, consider chucking me a few dollars on Patreon: www.patreon.com/historigraph
Notes on the Video:
As always, I have tried my best with the pronounciations, but I had a bit of a cold still when I recorded the narration, so apologies to sounding a bit nasal at times. I did consult with Norwegian speakers as to the best way to say things, but my voice might have scuppered my attempts to sound right at times.
With this video I want to stress the complex nature of the battles- you shouldn’t take the visualisations of the battalions as exactly correct at all times, as I have had to guesstimate at sompe points as to the locations of units. Also bear in mind that battalions found themselves split up at various points, which added to the complexity.
The pronunciations sound pretty good, imho!
However, in the future, when in doubt, I suggest you take a look on forvo (I'm confident they will have recordings of the native pronunciation of most French names and placenames too) ->
forvo.com
thanks and cheers from Stockholm
Historigraph you should do the take over of france after this
As in after the norway series
Do the Netherlands 1940 next Or the hole Benelux.
Peter Berzilos i agree
This is what I meant by my earlier comment
After this series, I'm rather surprised at how the Norwegian campaign has been treated as so much of a footnote when it comes to documentaries, like on that one channel with reality shows and aliens...
Thank you for taking the time and effort to compile their stories together so they wouldn't be so easily forgotten.
As a Norwegian, I am happy that the new Battlefiled V game has the Battle of Narvik included, since my dad is from there.
Yeah, it's quite the story. You have the lack of response/action from the government and military leadership in the face of imminent invasion on the one hand, but you also have stories of heroic men doing the utmost with what little they had, and to be fair we did hold on for quite a while.
It's been treated as such as it portrays the Allies in poor light. Glad we have these videos though, been a pleasure to watch.
@@Jonra1 That doesn't seem very well founded in light of how much attention is given to the policy of appeasement; the failure to react aggressively to the invasion of Poland; and, of course, the swift collapse of France.
I believe that it was treated as a footnote because it was overshadowed by other events of the time, such as the fall of France and the Dunkirk evacuation.
I gotta admit, that these videos on the invasion of norway, are some of the videos I've enjoyed most, for a long time. Keep it up!
100% agreed. Norwegian ww2 history is easy to forget but alot of interesting things happend, including the heavy water factory bombing at rjukan
They're pretty good, I also liked TIK's channel that's covering operations in North Africa as well.
There's a big budget movie on the Narvik campaign in production now, after years of planning it got its last bit of funding secured just this month.
@@LoftySkinner And now I've watched it, it's pretty good
"Terrain that the Allies considered impassible" Gee Willikers I wonder where I've heard that before...
Allies: This terrain is impassable
Norway: *German noises
Allies: Ok, THIS terrain is impassable
The Ardennes: *Tank nosies
But then, 1944 in Italy
Germany: THIS terrain is impassable
Mont Casino: Plays La Marseilles and Dombrovski Masuka
One would think that with how much the Second Punic War is studied this would stop surprising people.
@@nicholasavasthi9879 People say history doesn't repeat itself but somehow it does...constantly.
@@rantanplan178 Allies: Ok, THIS terrain is impassable
The Malayan Peninsula: *Tank noises
@@davidfreeman3083 They actually didn't think that, Nonte Cassino was heavely defended by first the 2. Fallschirmjäger-Division and then the 5. Gebirgs-Division.
8:17 I'm from Mo i Rana and at the museum here you can find pictures taken by Germans showing them building makeshift raft bridges for the advance after British forces had blown up all bridges through.
mo i rana sug baaaaaaallllllllleeeee
Germans: We’re crossing
British: No
Germans: we weren’t asking
^
This battle is the reason why my family now live in Sweden as my grandmother and her family escaped Narvik
Same
come back to norway
Oh the coincidences of history; if the Germans hadn't invaded Norway Anni-Frid wouldn't exist and we wouldn't have had ABBA.
My Grandfather was in that battle.
My grandfather was in Narvik with the Chasseurs Alpins and brought from it a depressive feeling of uselessness (fight and victory for nothing but running away) and bitterness (abandon/treason of the Norwegians left behind). The intendency was poor too (food not enough) but the command at his level (soldier) was good.
It was the French and the Polish that really helped the Norwegians. The English land campaign at Narvik, Namsos and Åndalsnes was a disaster.
The movie, The Siege of Narvik, will have premiere this Christmas.
How about that 480km hike! That was badass no matter which nation.
o/
I was in Narvik this summer and visited the war museum next to their library. Quite an impressive exhibition. My dad is a ww2 enthusiast and often voices his regret that the British pulled out of Norway, when a converstion hits that this topic. I'm gonna mail him a link to this video.
I've always been more interested in classical and medieval history, so I was not aware before that point, that Poles took part in battles outside Poland. Maybe this is a good place to express my thanks to those Poles that fought abroad, with your own home under occupation.
On our way up through Sweden, to get to Northern Norway (we drove from Denmark), we were overtaken by a number of Polish fire fighters, on their way to combat forest fighters, so it seems you are still coming to our aid to this day. A thanks for that as well.
I hope the journey was great.
Ya drove from Denmark to Narvik?! That is a long way.
We usally drive down south to visit cousins, and just that takes a long time...
I was in narvik yesterday when I was playing battlefield 5
@@keiva8201 Yes, my dad happens to be annoyingly persistent when it comes to the distances he insists that he can drive. We stopped in a northern Swedish town I don't remember the name of to catch some sleep on the way. That night sucked, I just can't sleep in a car.
Lofoten was beautiful though, so it was worth the effort.
Exceptionally good!
I love every minute of it.
Regardless what others say it is worth the waiting.
It is free and extremely good, pleasure to watch.
I live in Harstad, which is only a couple off miles away from Narvik. My grandfather fought in Narvik
"A couple of miles"??? Your miles must be the longest in the world...
British: Total failure on land, but massive victory on sea.
German: Sinks an aircraft carrier
British: (O.O) ???
Thank you very mutch for making these videos on the Norway campaign! I think it's a very important story to tell, that has recieved little recognition. Losing a fight does not mean that the fight was in vain, or that it does not deserve recognition as meaningfull. Norway during WW2 is often reduced to a story of occupation and resistance. The fact that Norway was a battlefield for sevral months is often forgotten, as well as the effort and meaning of norwegian wartime merchant sailors. I think the victors more or less want it forgotten, because it's a dark chapter in their story, it showns indecicivness, treachery and incompetence on their part. However, I think there are many lessons to be learned from the campaign, as well as the men who fought deserves recognition for their effort and sacrifice.
This series has really helped me out! I'm doing a dissertation about British responses to the fall of Norway so to have the context reiterated so neatly has been fantastic
That video was great. I did four years of military exercises between narvik and harstad. That was one of the best tours of DD that I had ever done. This video helps me to understand why we were there. Whenever possible I would go to a bunker that was built by the Germans in a small town between those two regions. It is still there and still used. Thank you video
9:45, many cities were retaken during campaing in Poland, especially during Bzura offensive... Heavy combat did happened there in many pleaces...
Brilliant episode...
Loved this. Thanks so much for you deciding to do norway.
Love your videos. You make everything so clear and digestible. You and History Matters are the only channels whose entire catalog I've viewed.
Yes! The return of Historigraph!
These are some of the best videos I have seen on WW2. Extremely informative and not boring!
Great video, tho sometimes it's hard to measure distances when the map is small. I'd like to see small ruler in the corner so we could understand the scaling of the maps. Looking forward to the future videos!
Very nice work! Sad to see the Norway sereies be done :(
Se «Alliert og alene» på NRK TV! Lover deg at du ikke kommer til å angre!
NuDoFaCe takk skal se den
as a norwegian I realy love your videos of the battle of Norwat. Keep up the good work!
Great documentary! I have recently visited some of these locations and it's great to learn of their history
Brilliant! Thank you for documenting a lesser known part of WW2.
Chris Topping lesser known part? Norway was a big deal to both Nazi germany and the allies during the war, and played a big part in it.
Love your great analysis of the more obscure battles of WW2!. Love your great analysis of the more obscure battles of WW2!.
God damn premier I wanted to watch this now
Deadclutch 13 in the time you Weight you can watch my taller butter butter
Space Teams lol
Incredible Video, Very good.
Thanks for a first-rate account of the Norwegian campaign. Lots of the details of this campaign were unknown by me. As a Dutchman, much of my knowledge is focused on the German May-campaign in Holland, Belgium and France. Again, thanks for reminding me of this Norway-campaign.
i have absolutly loved this series, i cant help at feel quite a lot of pride since i am norwegian myself
These videos are so good. My favourite channel on UA-cam? Good job! Such detail!
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but Trondheim - Narvik is probably closer to 750km hike. Driving in modern time (not straight roads) is about 900km
"It's over Norway...I have the high ground"
Sentinel creed you underestimate my viking genes
@@fedda9999 YOU UNDERRESTAMATE MY BROWN CHEESE!!!!
Love your speech, I think the division/battalion designations should be worked on, this is so confusing with these custom icons etc
All in all, brilliant work. I do not regret supporting on patreon
Awesome! I jumped right on this video when I saw it. There are a few things I feel should have been mentioned.
Narvik was captured without a fight because the man in charge surrendered.
The trønder batalion was taken by surprise and taken as prisoners which was a big blow to the Norwegian's strength as they were some of the best trained units. The commander surprisingly didn't put out guards for the night. One possible reason this happened was because he hadn't slept for 3 days.
Carl Gustav Fleischer's system was disrupted by the government coming up. Ruge promised not to interfere with command but was later broken.
The Germans were very close to being pushed out into Sweden but the surrender came before that happened. It was more a political surrender than a militarily one.
These videos are so high quality it's crazy. Keep up the amazing work m8!!
These were all excellent videos and your channel is great. Thank you.
Stellar work, mr. Historigraph! Your videos are very informative!
I have seen this video about 4 times now i still enjoy it
Keep up the good work👍
This is it for military campaigns, but there is material for two more videos on Norway in WW2. The Norwegian resistance is one, with Operation Gunnerside as the most famous act. The other is a video on the Norwegian merchant fleet and NORTRASHIP - arguably the most pivotal Norwegian contribution to the final outcome of the war.
Amazing work. I learned a lot from the videos and realized how much I didn't know about ww1. Thx for sharing
Very impressive bro, I enjoyed it very much as I always did with ur earlier videos, keep on it bro like this.
What ever topic you are going to do next, I'll be waiting for it on the toes.. Really great job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Yes, finally! Battle of Narvik !
GREAT SERIES! THANK YOU FOR THE UPLOADS!
Quick question. What does this premier system do?
It makes you wait? Other than that I have no idea
Sets a time for video to launch and does a live chat so the creator can chat with people while watching the video
Thanks for the replies😃
Fuck UA-cam up more then usually
Live comments... which they can monetise. You heard that right. Google is trying to monetise the biggest cesspool of online discussion. "Fuck actually improving it, let's make some money!"
I really enjoyed all 4 videos. Thank You!
Great work ! To bad you did not mention the French tanks. After the evacuation of Navrik, they became the only Free French tanks.
Thank you for this masterpiece series!
5:26 That is actually my home town. I recognize the mountain in the backrgound. That airport was built for the germans by norwegian slaves. Still there to this day, and the hangars are used as storage for a factory there. I'm sitting here feeling a little starstrucked right now
Very professional, thanks
Fantastic video as always, mate :)
Can. Not. Contain. Excitement.
these videos are amazing my dude, keep up the good work.
A really great and interesting video.
I learned a lot about my own country’s history, Thank you. I would love If you could cover some of the resistance operations done by the British and Norwegian comandos and groups
a_Raidel you should see «Alliert og alene» on NRK TV online! I promise you will not regret it!
Brilliant!!
Quarter hour of great content as usual
i AM SO GLAD YOU POSTED
Top notch video, as usual! I'd love to see you do something from the Pacific theater as your next video!
Fantastic work. Love these videos.
Great work as usual!
Very interesting video. Keep up the good work :)
As an old(er) yank chronic (og kush, purple bud, white widow, et al) who had uncles & neighbors in WW2 & grew up in Baltimore child of Swede & Germ migratory, have been obsessed w. ww2 & tripled since onset of UTOOB in old age, first documentary on American public TV in 1980s (Sir Larry O World at War) and have loved every doc since then. To have finally been able to enjoy such detail of the Norwegian campaigns, was beyond all expectation, or hope. Foyle's war included a whiny sergant who lost a leg in Trondheim, and he raged about the stupidity of the Admiralty and other commanders, and several Foyle episodes involved Norway & Norwegians, as even movies in te 50 & 60s in both USA & Brit. WW2 was world mythology of my boyhood, so to see your generation looking so much more closely and accurately has been a treat!!!!
50k hype, congrats man, ive been here since your hungary video btw; anyway here's to 100k
I live in that small town of Harstad, and we have a hut near Bjerkvik, did you know that the allies built a cannon named the «Adolf» cannon which Could fire shots all the way over to Narvik. And near that area it was a soviet POW camp where many soviets where killed
7:50 900 km actually
160km in two days? Wtf
Like, seriously, did the Germans invent helicopters or something?
I´m German ^^ ... 1940 most of the German Army was on "Pervitin" (Panzerschokolade, Stuka Pille). Pervitin [metamphetamine (Industrial high quality not the street shit from today)] was free and likly used bei alle types of German Army to Air / sea or ground ... was even in Cola and chocolate for stressed houswifes, in lower Conzentration´s.
I quote you a German Offizer: (google Translate)
"When the Wehrmacht conquered France in just a few weeks in mid-1940, Pervitin was found in every knapsack - the seemingly never-tired soldiers could march through the drug day and night without losing their optimism or feeling hungry."
Rommel and his Tank Korps in France in the ardennes was even on it, without Sleep and only to go Forward, Fight, Forward , Fight. No Sleep just keep forward ...... Rommel told about voices and perceptions on the third Day without sleep in the forest at night. Even a view Soldiers died because of shoot themselves in paniking or heart attack. Many soldiers was junkys in the war, many from them begs by front letters to the family. PLS SEND PERVITIN, as the German Command in the middle of the war recognized that pervitin don´t replaced sleep and break. makes the divisions where was to long on it weak, ill and inefficient. so it was rationed.
But later in the war 1944 /45, where it was clear the lost will come. Pilots / Tank Crews / Soldiers / Volkssturm with suicide missions or one man torpedo submarines ... was set on high dosis Pervitin. To take her fear and pain, to let him fight in optimism in complet hopeless lost situations.
without Pervitin a normal unit "golden mile" was 50-70km a Day, on pervitin without sleep, hungry or pain. you can start a truly blitzkrieg without a break and make the impossible, possible. The enemy will not espect it ^^
in the russia campaing divisions take 4955 km to foot and 890km per train in a few month. in the war the human is a resource, consumables to pay the bloody price for a Win or Lose.
In a "blitzkrieg" you start to punch through the first Enemy Front line, and hunt the withdraw troops. follows up quick and cut the enemy forces in pockets. You attack faster as the enemy troops can go back and reorganize on the second lines. For this you need Pervitin, your Soldiers Day and Night ready to fight for Days without sleep vs Enemy where tired, hungry and scared of the hunt speed.
Thats the power of meth
The perivitin thing is overrated today a bit. (Not that it didn't happen, but the long term scale of the usage is overhyped)
The thing with pervitin is (as also somewhat mentioined in the comment of Simon X) that yes it made the soldier go for 2-3 days without sleep, but then the soldiers weren't capable of doing anything for roughly the same time. As this meant you couldn't defend a taken position from a counterattack, they immediately stopped issueing that stuff officially. Also due to the haluzinating. (bad condition for people with guns...) And yes, Soldiers still often got relatives to send them the tablets via field postal service if they were able to get some at the pharmacy (which kept getting harder by time), but even then, if you go for the 3rd and 2nd Mt Div in this case: the 3rd was out of medical stuff for days, and their food was down to 1 slice of bread (So it is unlikely that they had any of that left). The 2nd Mt div (the ones marching north) had to carry all their stuff and gear on their backs. They weren't supplied on their way by someone else. So with a "starterkit" of Pervitin they would not have made it faster than without. (The time of "unusefullness" after use makes more than up for the pushing effect).
It was more of use in low dosage for short periods of time in the war (Attacks where you can replace the attacking force by reserve as soon as an objective is taken), and almost useless for what they did in Norway. And speaking of: the allies issued similar things to their troops, but it gets less talked about.
As for why they were able to march so fast: the soldiers of 2nd and 3rd Mt Div came from the former Austrian Gebirgsjäger which got incorporated almost unchanged (they switched the officers for original german ones). 2nd Mt Div: Soldiers motsly from Tyrol and Salzburg, 3rd from Carinthia and Styria. And if you know a bit about their life before the war and the area of where they were from, you get one reason for why. The second one is just above: while from the big number of allied troops only the Norwegian were (understandably) motivated to the max, neither the british, french nor polish were. (some also not trained or equipped fittingly) The 2nd Mt Div of the germans was motivated to the max... They were on their way to help out fellow "austrians" in need. And the 3rd was fighting for their lives as they were nearly surrounded and got news that the 2nd was on their way. They also were informed about the french campaign...
@@nirfz As a German, I can assure you, you just put it straight. Pervintin is not a magical wonderweapon, it comes with a fair amount of drawbacks. And as you explained, it's only useful in short-term usage.
Anyone out there know why my dad's B26 hits on Norway are still listed as CLASSIFIED? Officially Americans didn't bomb Norway, but his group data shows he did 5 sorties there...the last of which he was shot down. He flew B26...hi speed low altitude bombing.
I live in Narvik so its really interesting walking around / hiking in hills or view points
I love these vids. Really great effort and research and editing
Cool to watch this since I’m from Narvik and lived there all my life
this has been excellent, thank you for this.
Great video series, i really enjoyed them
Wouldn’t even know about narvik if it wasn’t for bfv
Me two! :D
I love these videos! Great work!
Great series. An episode on the Norwegian army and political thinking before the war would be good. They seemed totally unprepared for any conflict ??
This series was awesome, please make more!!!!!!
Very good work in this videos!
after watching the series its amazing to see how much chance there was of a failed invasion it coming down to mismanaged command and misinterpreted role of active vessels an dhow it could've been prevented.
Nice video, really enjoyed it
Actually my grandfather watched when the British bombed Bjerkvik. He was only 14. Great videos
There is a very good movie about the San Demitrio. Called San Demitrio London.
Well worth watching.
I somehow initially missed that you said in the chat you will be covering the D-day next. Does that mean you will eventually cover all the fighting in Normandy, up to the Falaise Pocket?
I hope u enjoyed this video as much as i enjoyed making them👍🏿 Bay bu)
I recomend everyone to watch the documantary "alliert og alene" (allied and alone). its a 3 part series about the invasion of Norway. very well made, and some great storytelling by veterans.
Love the series hope to see more soon.
3:55 what happened here?
great channel, wish I found it sooner. you got me as a sub!
Great video!
I never knew the french sent units to Norway, not to mention Poland(or already exile units)
Great video
Too much english propaganda
It's sad how big the scale of the destruction of Narvik were, the city never recovered from the war, not even to this day. The majority would say it's the ugliest city in Norway. Unlike the pearl of Northern Norway, Harstad.
A little off topic, I hate the term that Sweden is called "neutral". It's like having a pedophile in a kindergarten and the employee at the kindergarten is neutral, while handing out Viagra to the pedophile.
Yes, Good analogy. I think also appeasement is the word of the day for the Swedes around this time.
Give access to your railroad system or get invaded they chose the one where nobody die (swiss that is)
@@jonathansibrian695 Surrender to us or be invaded, our king and country said no. Though shouldn't be on my high horse now that our government sends aid to Yemen and weapons to Saudi Arabia...
What? I have been in Narvik and I think it is a very beautiful place. Well, except that I have only been to Fauske and Bodø, and do'nt know much about the arcitecture in Narvik, to be honest. I can't compare it to Harstad.
@@r.chamaemorus8025 Narvik is Harstad's rival city, so I guess my opinions come from there and the fact that city planners in northern Norway should all be fired. At least we got Adolf cannons that can reach Narvik, in case Norway gets invaded again and *cough* Narvik has to be destroyed to avoid giving the city to the occupants.
fabulous doc on this campaign, which is often overlooked. I find that the mindset of allied commanders in the early years of WW2 to be overconfident and lazy. They seem to have fumbled about as if the serious attitude of the Third Reich was of no consequence.
Loved this series ❤
Auchinleck... anyone els gets vietnam flashbacks from TIKs videos on operation Crusader? :D that name just rings a bell in my head screaming: incompetent
interesting video
My grandad fought here with the Polish highland divisions
As a Norwegian, now german turncoat, i appreciate this historical accuracy. Especially now that we have Battlefield 5 showing of the battle of Narvik as a feministic skiing Viking slaughter of the germans, only to elude the americans to believe that is how it went down, and that we truly ride polar bears into battle. Correct history, one vid at a time, love u
made my day
Mathias Reiersen As a norwegian i agree with everything you just said.
I do not like when people actually believe we have polar bears on the streets at this latitudes.
Mathias Reiersen PORT ROYALE 2014
@@Cashout95 Drammen represent
Great new film "Narvik" that is on Netflix that covers this
Watched that the other day! Enjoyed it
According the British show “World at War” in there hast to get at the Germans, the allied forgot to pack binding for their skis.