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Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (Breslavia, 17 gennaio 1885 – Holzminden, 18 giugno 1968) è stato un generale tedesco, ideatore del piano di invasione di Danimarca e Norvegia e comandante delle truppe di occupazione tedesche in Norvegia
Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German general and war criminal during World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1944.
Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (* 17. Januar 1885 in Breslau; † 18. Juni 1968 in Holzminden) war ein deutscher Heeresoffizier (seit 1940 Generaloberst ). Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er Befehlshaber verschiedener Großverbände des Heeres und Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber des besetzten Norwegen.
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Born Nikolaus Jastrzembski, he was a member of an aristocratic Silesian family with military traditions. In 1911, four years after he joined the German Army, he changed his Polish surname to Falkenhorst as a part of his Germanization process.
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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (born Nikolaus von Jastrzembski, 17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German General in World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops in the Arctic from 1941 to 1944.
Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, born on 17-01-1885 in Breslau to an old Silesian military family of Jastrzembski, son of the officer in the Schleischen capital Breslau Louis von Jastrzembski (1840–1906) and his wife Elisabeth von Werder (1850–1906).
Von Falkenhorst was known as a ruthless commander. He peremptorily ordered British commandos who had been captured be turned over to the Gestapo for execution. As he had always followed orders unquestioningly, he was sentenced to death by a military court in 1946.
