Scandinavia Lecture

Question 1

Quotes linked to Scandinavia?

Answer 1

‘Hitler’s tame canary’
‘a vile race of Quislings’

Question 2

Operation Weserubung in Denmark?

Answer 2

2 divisions
continuity of institutions, parties, police and military

Question 3

What was Danish life like under Nazis?

Answer 3

food rations higher than Germany.
economic growth and low unemployment.
country vs urban divide.
Danish govt and police.
model protectorate.

Question 4

Who supervised the Danish govt until 1942?

Answer 4

Cecil von Renthe-Fink

Question 5

Who was Danish PM from 1942-43?

Answer 5

Erik Scavenius

Question 6

Which group collaborated with Nazis?

Answer 6

Frikorps (SS unit of Danish volunteers)

Question 7

Danish resistance?

Answer 7

5000 seamen under British flag

Question 8

What was the turning point in Denmark?

Answer 8

State of emergency- August 1943.
rebellion against collaboration.
resistance organised in the winter.

Question 9

What Danish acts of civil disobedience were there?

Answer 9

General strike (5 days).
Ignoring curfew.
Celebrating King’s birthday.
flying national flag.

Question 10

BOPA/KOPA?

Answer 10

sabotage cells.
few weapons.
railway sabotages.
1943 increase in activity.

Question 11

Holger Danske?

Answer 11

350 volunteers.
100 sabotage operations.
200 executions of informers.

Question 12

Citron?

Answer 12

Sabotaged citreon garage- 6 German cars and tank destroyed

Question 13

Flame?

Answer 13

22 murders
Holger Danske

Question 14

What was the outcome of Nazis in Denmark?

Answer 14

Economy OK.
Production OK.
Education OK.
Little loss of life (900 resisters killed).
800 to concentration camps.

Question 15

Swedish role in WWII?

Answer 15

Neutral.
Churchill accused them of playing both sides for profit.
Swedish railways used for Barbarossa.
Shelter to Jewish refugees.

Question 16

Norway initial response?

Answer 16

Fall of Oslo, Norwegians fought back.
Quisling declared himself provisional head of state.
Terboven Reich Commissioner.
King Haakon VII to abdicate

Question 17

What was the feeling in Norway about the Nazis?

Answer 17

largely united against the occupation and rejection of Quisling

Question 18

Milk Strike 1941?

Answer 18

Started at shipyard and industrial site.
20,000 strikers in 50 sites.
Martial law.
300 arrested.

Question 19

teachers resistance 1942?

Answer 19

uni and school teachers opposed.
Quisling resored Jewish Paragraph of Constitution (abolished in 1851).
He was convicted of illegal amendment in 1945.
500 teachers sent to forced labour camps.

Question 20

Milorg?

Answer 20

1941.
Supported by SOE.
32,000.
Resistance work- intelligence, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, release of prisoners and escort to Sweden.
gave false intelligence to Germany.

Question 21

Shetland Bus?

Answer 21

1940-45.
Operation to smuggle resistance supplies into Nazi occupied Norway and return with Norwegian refugees.

Question 22

Televag, 1942?

Answer 22

Gestapo arrived.
locals hiding.
Vaerum and Hvaal killed.
Terboven ordered reprisal- raze buildings, destroy ship and livestock.
70 men sent to Grini.
Women and children to prison

Question 23

Compulsory conscription and labour service?

Answer 23

Late 1942.
compulsory registration for workforce at municipal offices.
Barbarossa to counter offensive from Judaism

Question 24

what was Hitler’s great tragedy in life?

Answer 24

triumph of Bolshevism and failure to enlist Britain

Question 25

how many Norwegian resistance arrests?

Answer 25

30,000