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The Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 168, the invasion of Norway part 6, the battle for Oslo Fjord.

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Each of the areas that the Germans targeted in their invasion of Norway were important

for their own reasons.

But it would be hard to argue that the most important target for the German landings

was the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

The goal of the invasion was to quickly bring the Norwegians to the negotiating table,

to allow for some kind of agreement to be made,

which would prevent the German army from getting pulled into a long and costly campaign of conquest.

The best way to do this was to take over the political center of the country and begin

negotiations with either a captured government, or at least one that was on the run from

German troops.

Of course, the Norwegian government and military understood the importance of Oslo, and it was

the capital of their nation after

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