May 17

  • ICELAND SEVERS TIES WITH DENMARK

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 6 minutes

    Reykjavik, Iceland • May 17, 1941 On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Denmark and Norway, osten­sibly to pro­tect the neu­trality of the two Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries against Franco-Brit­ish aggres­sion. Adolf Hitler had become con­vinced in mid-Decem­ber 1939 that the 2 West Euro­pean Allies, at war with Germany for 3½ months now, were hell-bent on dis­rupting the…

  • ICELAND CUTS TIES TO DENMARK

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Reykjavik, Iceland · May 17, 1941 On April 9, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Den­mark and Nor­way, osten­sibly to pro­tect the neu­trality of the two Scan­di­na­vian coun­tries against Franco-Brit­ish aggres­sion. Adolf Hitler had become con­vinced in mid-Decem­ber 1939 that the two West Euro­pean Allies, at war with Ger­many for three and a half months now, were…