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Invasion of Norway

Name: Invasion of Norway – Norway factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Norway · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records

1939–1940Date range

2Named people

0Places

Chronological records

1939

Vidkun QuislingDecember 1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Quisling meets Hitler & urges him to invade Norway

1940

Haakon VII9 April 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Rejects a German ultimatum

Haakon VII29 April 1940

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Taken aboard the Glasgow & conveyed to the new provisional capital at Tromso

Names involved

Haakon VIIVidkun Quisling

Provenance

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