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 | | German airborne troops land at Oslo airport Fornebu, Kristiansand airport Kjevik, and Stavanger airport Sola -- the latter constituting the first paratrooper attack in history; coincidentally, one of the Luftwaffe pilots landing at Kjevik is Reinhard Heydrich |
 | | The Germans evacuated on May 28, but due to the detoriating situation on the European continent, the allied troops were evacuated in Operation Alphabet – and the Germans recaptured Narvik on June 9, by then deserted also by the civilians. |
 | | A total of 2,140,000 German soldiers, and over 100,000 German military railway carriages, crossed Sweden until the traffic was officially suspended on August 20, 1943. |
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