Portal:Denmark/Selected article/Week 8, 2008
Schalburgkorps
, a Danish SS unit, after 1943.totalitarian
system until German authorities dissolved the government following a wave of strikes and sabotage.
The
British response. German military planners believed that a base in the northern part of Jutland, specifically the airfield of Aalborg
, would be essential to operations in Norway, and they began planning the occupation of parts of Denmark. However, as late as February 1940 no firm decision to occupy Denmark had been made. The issue was finally settled when Hitler personally crossed out the words die Nordspitze Jütlands (the Northern tip of Jutland) and replaced them with Dä, a German abbreviation for Denmark.
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