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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 170, The Invasion of Norway Part 8, Narvik.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Nicholas, Matthew, and Jordan for choosing to support

the podcast by becoming members. You can find out more over at History of the Second World War.com

slash members. Over the last several episodes, the podcast has looked at the various areas of

Norway that the Germans would target during the opening hours of their invasion. This episode will continue that process, with a look at the German efforts to land an amphibious

force at Narvik in northern Norway.

Narvik is an interesting area to discuss for a lot of reasons, but one of them was simply

that it was also the area that the British and French were most concerned with taking

control of during their discussions

in the months before the German invasions. This meant that after the German invasion,

it would also occupy a large amount of discussion in London and Paris about what to do

about the German forces that were in Narvik. Narvik was important because it was on the route

that Swedish Iron Ore took on its way to Germany

during the winter months when the ports in the Baltic were frozen over.

While the Norwegians would not know how close those British and French plans came to being put into action,

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