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	Nikolaus von Falkenhorst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (January 17, 1885 – June 18, 1968) was a German General who planned 'Operation Weserübung', the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940.
		Von Falkenhorst was born in Breslau to an old Silesian military family of Jastrzembski.
		Von Falkenhorst was dismissed from his command on December 18, 1944 for opposing the policies of Josef Terboven, the Reich Commissioner for Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolaus_von_Falkenhorst (498 words)

	Go2War2.nl - Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von
		Nikolaus von Falkenhorst werd op 17 januari 1885 geboren in Breslau, Silezië, Duitsland.
		Tot aan zijn ontslag op 17 december 1944, was von Falkenhorst bevelhebber van de Duitse strijdkrachten in Noorwegen.
		Von Falkenhorst stond bekend als een meedogenloze bevelhebber.
	www.go2war2.nl /artikel/800 (467 words)

	Noteworthy War Criminals. Second World War Europe. Generals and Senior Officers. UNWCC
		Field Marshal von WEICHS, a defendant, was withdrawn from the trial on account of illness.
		Tried, together with General von Loehr (q.v.) by a Yugoslav military court at Belgrade in February, 1947, for atrocities against the Yugoslav civil population.
		General MAELZER was also tried by a British court and sentenced to death on 30.11.46, together with General von Mackensen (q.v.), for complicity in the Ardeatine Caves massacre.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /WCC/warcrimgenrls.htm (1578 words)

	Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
		Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Commanding General, XXI Corps, was nominated for the task-largely because he had acquired some experience in overseas operations during the German intervention in Finland in 1918.
		At noon on 21 February von Falkenhorst reported to Hitler and was offered the mission of planning and-when and if the time came-commanding the operation against Norway.
		Von Falkenhorst as Commanding General, Group XXI, was to be directly subordinate to Hitler.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_02.htm (8582 words)

	Abebooks: Baedeker Guides
		The Shakespearean scholar, Gisbert von Vincke (1813-1892), was fond of relating a story which reveals the scrupulous nature of Karl Baedeker's research and the publisher's insistence on doing his own legwork.
		Von Vincke was curious as to why the tourist was placing a coin on every 20th step during the ascent.
		Von Falkenhorst sprinted down Berlin's Bendlerstrasse to a secondhand bookshop and bought a 1931 Baedeker.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /docs/Community/Featured/RBR/baedekers.shtml (1703 words)

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		I 1918 tjenestegjorde han i Finland, i tyske styrker som støttet den hvite siden i borgerkrigen.
		Etter gjennomført aksjon ble Falkenhorst 19.07.1940 forfremmet til generaloberst, 25.7.
		Falkenhorst béskriver Fehlis som «en stille og beskjeden natur, alltid svært høflig og taktfull overfor meg».
	lotus.uib.no /norgeslexi/krigslex/f/f1.html (2477 words)

	Norwegian Campaign Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By 21 February, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was placed in charge of planning the invasion and command of the land-based forces.
		On 11 April, after receiving reinforcements in Oslo, General Falkenhorst's offensive began; its goal was to link up Germany's scattered forces before the Norwegian's could effectively mobilize or any major Allied intervention could take place.
		His first task was to secure the general Oslofjord area, then to use the 196th and 163rd infantry divisions to establish contact with the forces at Trondheim.
	216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Norwegian_Campaign (7704 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Cross Channel Invasion [Chapter 4]
		While the Moscow Conference was going on, Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief in the West, was putting the final touches on a long, frank, pessimistic report on the state of his defenses.
		Von Rundstedt (left) was Commander in Chief West; General Jodl was chief of Armed Forces Operational Staff.
		General der Panzertruppen Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg, the armored expert in the west, wanted to push the mobile tactics thus adumbrated to the point of falling back entirely from the coast with all mobile units, leaving only the static defenses to stave off the enemy as long as possible and inflict maximum losses.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-XChannel/USA-E-XChannel-4.html (13342 words)

	Cross-Channel Attack-Endnotes 4
		Until December 1941 this was the headquarters and staff for Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Army.
		Under the command of General der Infanterie Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, it was charged with the preparation and conduct of the Scandinavian campaign in 1940.
		After von Schlieben's forces had been bottled up in Cherbourg in June 1944, Hoffmann escaped by E-boat with orders to report to the Seventh Army.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/7-4/end-IV.htm (2087 words)

	Law Books Ddecember 2005 International and Foreign Law Books
		Trial of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst Fermerly Generaloberst in the German Army.
		Falkenhorst was Commander-in-Chief of German troops in Norway from 1940 to 1944.
		He was notorious for his harsh treatment of prisoners of war, especially British commandos, many of whom he had executed.
	www.lawbookexchange.com /dec05/law-books-dec05-10.html (1771 words)

	Operation Weserubung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In february 1940, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (Kn.Cross 30.04.1940) was given the important task to plan the invasion of Norway.
		In five hours he had made a rough sketch of the invasion, presented it to Hitler, and was given order to proceed developing his plans.
		Falkenhorst reported back in March, that all the units in heer, luftwaffe and kriegsmarine was now ready for attack.
	www.nuav.net /weserubung2.html (728 words)

	Northwest Historical Association (NWHA) - WW2 Reenacting Society
		This mainly involved anything which could contribute to the progress of Germany military needs, but changes which served National Socialist ideology also began to mark developments.
		In addition to a German commander in chief - to begin with General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst - Norway was also burdened with a political commissioner, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven.
		Faced with the German forces, and an efficient apparatus for terrorising and oppressing the population, Norway entered a state of semi-paralysis for five long years.
	www.nwha.org /news_1Q2004/news_page10.html (2458 words)

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		He courted General Werner von Blomberg, whom President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Reichswehr Minister in January 1933 (immediately before Hitler assumed office) and Colonel Walter von Reichenau, Blomberg's Ministerial Office Chief.
		He replaced Fritsch as Army C-in-C with Walter von Brauchitsch, this being a far easier move than finding a replacement for Blomberg.
		For example, General Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, one of Hitler's favourite airmen, certainly believed them capable of this.
	www.joelhayward.org /adolfhitlerandjointw.htm (11681 words)

	Europe Western Front D-Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst mountain warfare expert to devise an invasion plan to take Norway.
		Originally the Army High Command made plans for a major thrust through Belgium and Holland similar to the "Schlieffen Plan" of World War I. General von Rundstedt and his chief of staff, General von Manstein, said that this was exactly what the France and British were expecting.
		However after battle plans had fallen into Allied hands General von Manstein was able to present his case to Hitler in person and it was quickly adopted.
	www.ww2guide.com /west.shtml (8366 words)

	Joel Hayward Joel Hayward : Joel Hayward Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In March 1945 Hitler 'retired' Field Marshal von Rundstedt and made Kesselring, whose Italian theatre had become a backwater, the new Commander-in-Chief, West (Oberbefehlshaber West), with authority over all land and air forces along the rapidly withdrawing German western front.
		Falkenhorst, they worried, did not possess adequate experience with their services.
		Yet in the case of the Crimean campaign the harmonious cooperation achieved by Richthofen and Manstein produced a unity of command and a degree of inter-service cooperation seldom equalled during the war.
	www.freewebs.com /joelhayward2/earlyjointwarfare.htm (10095 words)

	XO holidays - Wreck diving in Narvik, Norway
		This showed that the Norwegian government was no longer capable of enforcing its neutrality, and Hitler speeded up the planning of the intervention in Norway.
		Hitler signed the directive for carrying out Operation 'Weserübung' on 1 March, and made General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst commander of the operations.
		Eidsvold's sister ship, the ironclad PS Norge, met the same fate just a few minutes later when she was torpedoed by the German destroyer Bernd von Arnim, killing 101 men.
	www.xoholidays.no /htm/trips/t105/t105_battleofnarvik.htm (914 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Norway Campaign - A1148492
		Germans Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and Nazi Norwegian leader Vidkun Quisling
		General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was instructed to plan an attack.
		He decided that Denmark would provide a land route to Norway and divisions were mobilised on 7 April 1940.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A1148492 (565 words)

	Norwegian war hero visits D.C. (Norway - the official site in the United States)
		Though the sabotage had been successful, the noise from the explosion could have been mistaken for one of the many landmines buried in the area.
		But when they realized what had happened, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst himself had been to inspect and determined that it was some of the best sabotage he had ever seen, the Germans put out large forces in an attempt to catch the perpetrators.
		Helberg had been given the task to go back and retrieve the supplies the group had left behind in a cabin on Hardangervidda.
	www.norway.org /News/archive/1998/199803hero.htm (1522 words)

	H-Net Review: Tim Kirk on Who's Who in Nazi Germany
		Walther Darre, a Nazi minister, was sentenced to a mere five years' imprisonment.
		Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, meanwhile, the Commander-in-Chief of German troops in Norway who handed over prisoners of war for execution, received a death sentence from a British military tribunal in 1946, a sentence which was later commuted to twenty years' imprisonment so that he was released in 1953 on health grounds.
		He died in 1968 at the age of 83.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24617879877688 (730 words)

	The Second World War Experience Centre - The 1940 Norway Campaign
		The destroyer Cossack approached and her men boarded the Altmark and freed the 299 captive merchant seamen on board.
		This incident convinced Hitler that the Allies had plans to strike in Scandinavia, and he appointed Lieutenant-General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst to command the planned conquest of Norway and Denmark code named Operation Weserűbung.
		D-day was to be 20 March, but was later put back to 9 April.
	www.war-experience.org /history/keyaspects/norway1940/default.asp (1706 words)

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		Neither Fear Nor Hope: The Wartime Career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, Defender of Cassino.
		Trial of Nikolaus von Falkenhorst: Formerly Generaloberst in the German Army.
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	9 April 1940
		Three fighter Gruppen of ZG1 and ZG76 (Bf110C) take part as the fighter cover.
		German troops under General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst have been landed in every Norwegian port as far north as Narvik.
		Major-General Eduard Dietl's Mountain Division and the Luftwaffe's First Parachute Regiment go in as the spearhead of this invasion.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/09.htm (1585 words)

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	Norway
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		If a single image dominates the popular perception of the Polish campaign of 1939, it is the scene of Polish cavalry bravely charging the Panzers with their lances.
	www.panzerworld.net /fallweiss.html (882 words)

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