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

Episode 175, The Invasion of Norway, the Recapture of Narvik.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Blake, Charles,

David, and Kara for choosing to support the podcast by becoming members. You can find out more

about becoming a member over at History of the Second World War.com slash members. On May 7th,

the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain, would speak before the assembled

House of Commons in London.

The topic of the day was the events that were occurring in Norway, and had been occurring for almost a month.

The entire sequence of British decisions were up for discussion, but of particular note

was the decision that had been taken to pull British troops out of Central Norway,

abandoning the entirety of southern and central

Norway to the Germans.

Chamberlain would say this, quote, it became clear to us that we could only maintain our

forces in the Trondheim region by such a concentration of men and materials and aircraft,

as would have drawn off altogether an undue proportion of our total resources, and in these

circumstances we decided that we could carry on the campaign in Norway, elsewhere, with greater

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