Directed by: Martin Rikli, Werner Buhre
Release date: 1940
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: National-Socialist Germany
Language: German
Kampf um Norwegen – Feldzug 1940 (English: Battle for Norway – 1940 Campaign) is a 1940 National-Socialist propaganda film directed by Martin Rikli and Dr. Werner Buhre under orders of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht. The documentary film follows the Invasion of Denmark and Norway in the spring of 1940.
The film describes the sequence of events leading up to the invasion of Norway, especially the Anschluss of Austria, the division of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement and finally the invasion of Poland in September, 1939. As a prelude, it justifies the invasion of Norway by outlining the plans of Britain to invade the country, and attempts by the British to mine the leads along the Atlantic coast. When the Royal Navy invaded Norwegian waters to attack the German tanker Altmark and release…
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