Why did Hitler's armie invade Denmark and Norway?

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler claimed Germany had to protect Scandinavia from Britain and its allies. But, the real reason was to safeguard a supple of Sweden's iron ore for the Germany's was factories via the seaports of Norway and to give Germany and use of Denmark's and Norway's ports and airfields. With control of these two countries, Nazi submarines and warships could reach the Atlantic safely via the North Sea and not have to risk using the narrower and heavily protected English Channel. The rich farmland of Denmark would also provide the food needed to keep an army well fed. Only Sweden, which had no shoreline on the Atlantic, was free of Germany's occupying forces.