FDR SENDS TROOPS TO OCCUPY GREENLAND
Washington, D.C. · April 10, 1941 On April 9, 1941, a full year after Operation Weseruebung had brought Denmark and Norway into Nazi Germany’s orbit, the Danish minister in Washington, D.C., Henrik Kauffmann, signed a treaty with the United States, authorizing the U.S. to protect the remote Danish colony of Greenland “against attack by a…