Scandinavia Lecture Flashcards
Quotes linked to Scandinavia?
‘Hitler’s tame canary’
‘a vile race of Quislings’
Operation Weserubung in Denmark?
2 divisions
continuity of institutions, parties, police and military
What was Danish life like under Nazis?
food rations higher than Germany.
economic growth and low unemployment.
country vs urban divide.
Danish govt and police.
model protectorate.
Who supervised the Danish govt until 1942?
Cecil von Renthe-Fink
Who was Danish PM from 1942-43?
Erik Scavenius
Which group collaborated with Nazis?
Frikorps (SS unit of Danish volunteers)
Danish resistance?
5000 seamen under British flag
What was the turning point in Denmark?
State of emergency- August 1943.
rebellion against collaboration.
resistance organised in the winter.
What Danish acts of civil disobedience were there?
General strike (5 days).
Ignoring curfew.
Celebrating King’s birthday.
flying national flag.
BOPA/KOPA?
sabotage cells.
few weapons.
railway sabotages.
1943 increase in activity.
Holger Danske?
350 volunteers.
100 sabotage operations.
200 executions of informers.
Citron?
Sabotaged citreon garage- 6 German cars and tank destroyed
Flame?
22 murders
Holger Danske
What was the outcome of Nazis in Denmark?
Economy OK.
Production OK.
Education OK.
Little loss of life (900 resisters killed).
800 to concentration camps.
Swedish role in WWII?
Neutral.
Churchill accused them of playing both sides for profit.
Swedish railways used for Barbarossa.
Shelter to Jewish refugees.
Norway initial response?
Fall of Oslo, Norwegians fought back.
Quisling declared himself provisional head of state.
Terboven Reich Commissioner.
King Haakon VII to abdicate
What was the feeling in Norway about the Nazis?
largely united against the occupation and rejection of Quisling
Milk Strike 1941?
Started at shipyard and industrial site.
20,000 strikers in 50 sites.
Martial law.
300 arrested.
teachers resistance 1942?
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.
Milorg?
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.
Shetland Bus?
1940-45.
Operation to smuggle resistance supplies into Nazi occupied Norway and return with Norwegian refugees.
Televag, 1942?
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
Compulsory conscription and labour service?
Late 1942.
compulsory registration for workforce at municipal offices.
Barbarossa to counter offensive from Judaism
what was Hitler’s great tragedy in life?
triumph of Bolshevism and failure to enlist Britain
how many Norwegian resistance arrests?
30,000
