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Michael Doelle <[log in to unmask]>
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SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:06:37 -0500
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Jaen-Marc wrote:

>> The Germans practiced it in WW2. I even have an original leaflet,
somewhere in my files, of the first leaflet they dropped over Denmark on
April 9th 1940, telling the population that resistance was futile and that
the Danish parliament had endorsed the German invasion.

>And indeed very efficient. One of the most succesful German invasions.<

Debatible, since other than the Norway action, where was the real benefit
in this one? A neutral Denmark would have been OK, too. Old grudges were
most likely at work here. Get "Nord-Schleswig" back into the Reich.

M

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