Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1. +Lord Tom  The difference is that Norway as a coastal nation while perhaps neural on paper in reality would never be able to go up against the Brits, something that the blocade and starvation they caused during the Napoleonic wars clearly showed while Germany was a land force whose navy might be possible to challenge and if they where the enemy then allied reinforcements could be expected elsewhere in the country. While if it was the British attacking then Norway would be cut off from any form of reinforcements... Also, Norway was unofficially allied anyway in many ways and had accepted British demands to mine certain areas within Norwegian coastal waters near Allied sea mine fields already in essence supporting the British war effort that way.
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  2. +Don Felipe  I can't comment on Denmark. But Norway was split between those who saw the Soviets as the biggest threat. Those who saw the Imperialism of the Brits as the biggest threat and those who saw Nazism as the biggest threat. Norway thought that an attack from the Soviet Union was more likely and had more troops deployed north in order to avoid the Winter War spilling over into an invasion of Norway too. For some the Nazi invasion was a positive in the sense that it might defend the country from the Soviet Union and the Brits and given that the people of Germany are more similar to us then the Brits or Russians. On the whole those who favored sideing with Britain where probably larger in number though... (not that I've seen any sources describing what the numbers where, it's just the sense I get from stories about what people thought, I've heard more pro-british ones, but that might be coloured by who where the victors) Of course we had plenty of communists in the country too though for whom Britain and Germany where both seen as... problematic... Of course the Winter War didn't exactly improve our views of the Soviet Union...
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  3. +Tom M It could have been effective in the North Atlantic. And in fact the German surface fleet had been quite effective at distrupting allied supply lines prior to the sinking of the Bismarck. Also, there's so many coincidenses involved in the sinking of the Bishmarck that I'm not at all sure they'd have the same outcome if more of their ships where available. Other ships would have been able to tow Bismarck helping her stay under controll if there was more ships available. Having more ships would also have made the engagements she had more effective potentially taking out enemies earlier allowing her and the other ships to escape with less damage, and so one and so forth...
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  4. Remember that while the UK could out-build Germany they couldn't necessarily out-build multiple other nations at once. The German navy might have envisioned a war where they had actually had a chance to prepare and with allied navies fighting alongside them against the Royal Navy potentially making up for the difference in size of those navies, if not in a direct engagement then at least in terms of the resources available in the Royal Navy for the combined defense of its merchant fleet, its home coast and the various other parts of its Britains Empire at the time.
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  5. +Historigraph Don't worry, you did good. =) You do have a accent, but this is bloody good for a non-native. =)
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  6. +Don Felipe  It's not really about supporting Nazi ideology. Remember that it was the Brits who invented the concentration camp and they've been behind many genocides. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html To name a few. Basically back then Britain was still seen as a hostile world power using other countries as pawns kind of like the US is seen in many Muslim countries today. Given that Norway might end up as a pawn in international politics the question would be what sides pawns would be preferable. In many ways we had a lot in common with Germany culturally with similar languages (more people spoke German in Sweden then English prior to the world war and while English was more popular in Norway then German there was still a lot of people who knew German.) Talk about defending the race etc makes about as much sense as peoples anti-immigration and anti-islam talk these days. People are afraid of the unknown and the different.
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