How did the Nazis travel to Norway?

Answer 1

For the purposes of this answer, I assume you are referring to how the Nazis traveled to invade Norway in World War II. Most of the German soldiers arrived on German warships (merchant ships were considered too slow to coordinate with the warships during the invasion) with the invasion fleet that attacked on 9 April 1940.

The initial invasion force was transported in several groups by ships of the Kriegsmarine:

1. Battlecruisers (or fast battleships) Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as distant cover, plus 10 destroyers with 2,000 mountaineering troops to Narvik.

2. Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and four destroyers with 1,700 troops to Trondheirm;

3. Light cruisers K1. Köln and Königsberg, artillery training ship Bremse, transport Karl Peters, two torpedo boats and five motor torpedo boats with 1,900 troops to Bergen;

4. Light cruiser Karlsruhe, three torpedo boats, seven motor torpedo boats and Schnellboot mothership (Schnellbootbegleitschiff) Tsingtauwith 1,100 troops to Kristiansand;

5. Heavy cruiser Blücher, heavy cruiser (formerly pocket battleship) Lützow, light cruiser Emden, three torpedo boats and eight minesweepers with 2,000 troops to Oslo;

6. Four minesweepers with 150 troops to Egersund.

German airborne troops also landed at Oslo airport Fornebu, Kristiansand airport Kjevik, and Sola Air Station - the latter constituting the first opposed paratrooper (Fallschirmjäger) attack in history.

There are also reports that some advance soldiers traveled across the border from Sweden in the guise of tourists.