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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 164, The Invasion of Norway Part 2, British and French Invasion Plans.

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Germany would be the nation that would invade Norway in April 1940, but only because the British

and French got cold feet with their plans to do the same thing. Their reasons were different,

instead of the German desire to invade and control the entire country to prevent it from being

used by Britain and France. The Allied plan was built around the desire to slow the export of Swedish iron ore to Germany.

But both nations, at the core of their plans, was one simple fact.

They did not care what the Norwegian government or their Norwegian people wanted to happen.

All of that was secondary.

For the British and French leaders, there was

another reason to bring the war to Norway. It would keep it away from France. Many of the

discussions that occurred on the British and French Supreme War Council during the early

months of the war were around how Germany's attention could be pulled somewhere, literally

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