Why did the Germans waste 300,000 troops occupying Norway until the last day of the war?
German occupation of Norway
Dylan King
Owen Martinez
>why did the Germans do (stupid thing) during WW2?
Because Hitler and his Yes men were fucking morons
Colton Richardson
Hitler was so fuckin idiot
Jaxson Sanchez
Bad meme, Hitler was a great strategist during the early war. Rommel was a shit general
Samuel Howard
lol you couldn't force me to leave Norway for endsieg Germany
maybe Bjorn and Lief will take pity on my conscript ass and treat me better than Ivan
Robert Morris
It had important harbors that Germany wanted to help control the northern atlantic ocean. This was critical for their uboat campaign
There was also a lot of iron ore in nearby sweden that they wanted.
If Norway fell to the allies, it would be another potential point of invasion into Germany.
Also, Norway was considered part of the greater gemanic culture.
Nevermind these tards
Daniel Scott
Hitler's strategies early in the war worked, later in the war they were full retard but that's attributed to the man himself becoming delusional
Rommel doesn't have much to do with it. He was given the task of trying to defend the Atlantic coast and that was a big job. Leaving an area without adequate defense would have been noticed and exploited.
Mason Howard
>Lose Norway
>RAF and USAF now have bases within spitting distance of northern Germany
Nicholas Walker
It's about the same distance as from eastern England.
Thomas Murphy
>He was given the task of trying to defend the Atlantic coast
The only reason he had to defend there was because he overextended in Africa against Hitler's orders and lost Africa. The myth of Rommel the Superman is a fiction generated by Seidl.