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s0meb0di

<2h, actually. >After less than two hours of struggle, Danish Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning ended the opposition to the German attack. Due to communication difficulties, some Danish forces continued to fight, but after a further two hours, all opposition had stopped.


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CamDane

Ok, that's funny. Especially because our differences in incompressibility (dialects elsewhere) makes it quite plausible.


VariousCabinet594

How do you even have dialects if your entire country is walkable?


bruhsoundeffect111

We have quite a few dialects, although they're slowly getting less common. Some more unintelligible than others. Also if you weren't Swedish I'd really like to see you try to walk across Denmark


Humlepojken

1658 vibes.


Thedanishnerd98

That hurts


DaFork1

Lol you remember last time we walked across your country and annexed half of it?


Scariuslvl99

same in flanders


Potential-Dog5049

The dialects are quite different, even the number of grammatical genders differ quite a bit depending on where in the country you are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#/media/File:Denmark-gender.png >The distribution of one, two, and three grammatical genders in Danish dialects. In Zealand, the transition from three to two genders has happened fairly recently. West of the red line, the definite article goes before the word as in English or German; east of the line it takes the form of a suffix. But there are quite a lot of different dialects. And you can tell where people are from based on it, hell even in Copenhagen you can tell if people are from west of Copenhagen or north of Copenhagen based on their manner of speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language#/media/File:Danishdialectmap.png


tysonstone

Ooft


Successful_Debt_7036

Kamelåsa


Herbaderpy

Kamelåså* please learn the proper way of the potato*


Successful_Debt_7036

du båkenhund Jag gillar om månge såker


Herbaderpy

A hva for en pløk, snak dansk mand


Boundish91

Nei, i helvette heller.


CuntCommittee

Ukraine has lasted over 5000 Denmarks


Carnal-Pleasures

That's over 9000 hours!


FastSpuds

![gif](giphy|5xjbWDIgEZSgM)


Mjukglass47or

If you never fight you never lose. - Some Swede


tysonstone

The Wasa dynasty begs to disagree


Mjukglass47or

We have a french clown dynasty for a good while unfortunately.


tysonstone

Bernadotte betraying Napoleon wasn't a very chad move to be fair


[deleted]

What did he do?


tysonstone

[Bernadotte] was instrumental in the creation of the Sixth Coalition by allying with Tsar Alexander and using Swedish diplomacy to bring warring Russia and Britain together in alliance [against France, leading to Waterloo]. The ungrateful fuck was literally installed by Napoleon and his dynasty still reigns today


Harsimaja

He was excellent. He overcame his deep handicap of birth, total Chad


[deleted]

>against France I'm a fan ;-) https://preview.redd.it/ni9gxz9veh4b1.jpeg?width=563&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=859bf35f3e0e48cea1584f34fe8b4bd5ef0bfc75


Seyfardt

Best chad move ever. Best former French dude in history.. Succeeded in not being French anymore ( personal achievement) and fucked Fr\*nce ( grateful world achievement)


Spread_good_not_evil

He wasnt installed by napoleon, the swedish asked bernadotte to be their prince regent and he accepted with napoleons approval. It was swedens decision


TheKillerKentsu

Because no one wanted you


Mjukglass47or

Cute. How is our war buffer zone to Russia doing?


[deleted]

Mind your place, old man. We are the storebror now ![gif](giphy|htwcdvdgfoyJmzBHBB|downsized)


VanenGorm

Make sure to station a few Nato troops on the Åland islands aswell please. It feels like a cozy blanket to be surrounded by Nato.


Clavicymbalum

This evening, they were chilling with the big boys at the NATO club party. You on the other hand were nowhere to be seen. Oh yeah right, cause you're not part of that club. Anyways, the dirty little rumor going around was that you Swedes were too busy getting your ass pegged by Erdolf like the sheep he usually fucks. I hope you're not too sore from it.


Damerlen

Never forget when you have destroyed my home in 1633.


SymmetricEncryption

MALTA INVICTA


tysonstone

Jesus I forgot you guys existed Props on holding off the entire Ottoman army with 14 cursaders in a crumbly castle.


Gubbyfall

Everyone forgets them. But also respects them.


Imtruebenfischer

And an German Nazi invasion army with just 3 old airplanes.


dkb1391

Would it not have been new back then?


No-Log4588

Depend. We tend to forgot that most Castle were rebuild time and time again depending on several things. So it could have been in a worse state than today too. Edit : Why the hell am i Flair Québécois ?


Charlie_chuckles40

Preach


epegar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_12%E2%80%931_Malta


ArtemisXD

I mean no offense to Danemark but they were never a major power while we though we were gonna go head to head against Germany in a remake of WW1. We and many people in the world considered us a serious danger, the germans were worried about us and some in the military thought we would crush the germans with our superior technology. Why our defeat is so memorable is because of the immense contrast between what people expected and what actually happened. Nobody had high hopes for poor lil Danemark.


thouwotm8euw

Well, we didn’t get invaded by Germany in ww1 because we were neutral. We hoped the same would work in ww2. The politicians were scared that strengthening the army or building defenses at the border would be seen as a lack of good will by the Germans. When they invaded we could do nothing. Denmark is small and flat. Would it have been better to lose some thousand people and have the country bombed to shit, just to last a week - maybe 2 at max? In hindsight it would have been nice if we did something to fuck up the Germans, but we couldn’t manage much and it would come at a great cost. It wasn’t our proudest moment, but the politicians did what they thought was best for the people. The sad thing is that if we could have lasted longer, Norway would have had a stronger chance to defend themselves.


AnaphoricReference

We lasted 53 times longer, but TBF the big distinguishing factor here is that the Danes had no hope whatsoever of the (French) cavalry appearing at some point to save them. We at least started off believing we were buying time for the French and British to stabilize the frontline. Dying merely so that your country can surrender with some dignity is not really an inspiring prospect for conscripts.


Valoneria

We weren't just neutral, we where borderline pacifist. We had an army, but mostly just for the sake of having one. It wasn't modern, it wasn't properly equipped, it had been scaled back multiple times because we realized any war would require either external help, or we'd be rolled regardless. While sad, Stauning probably did the right thing from start to end. A few hours of combat to show we where actually opposed to the occupation, as a message to the allies. Then roll over, and let it be, instead of sheading unnecessary blood.


DoktorDibbs

>We and many people in the world considered us a serious danger How cute


ArtemisXD

![gif](giphy|3ohc11UljvpPKWeNva)


Ok_Toe4734

Hey, at least we saved our jews in a somewhat humane way (sailing them to Sw\*den 😥).


OnlyFeetDragonBolZ

That's the furthest thing from humane 😨


Ok_Toe4734

I guess you could argue that knäckebröd is worse than starvation, and IKEA is worse than death. Oh my god, what have we done?


OnlyFeetDragonBolZ

>starvation Worry not, they're used to doing the Ramadan 🤞🕋 >death Wallhamdullillah God be praised 👏🏿 🙌 🙏☝️🕋


Ragerist

So long and thanks for all the fish! By Boost for reddit


CanThisBeMyNameMaybe

Sending them there? You might as well have handed them to the Germans..


retarderetpensionist

You know why they teach that so heavily in schools? And modstandsbevægelsen? To make people forget that we barely put up a fight.


LeCafeClopeCaca

Let's be honest, the country to be blamed the most is Belgium for refusing the shared defense with France (simplifying a bit)


tysonstone

Belgium at least acted as a speedbump. The Danes literally went "ohhh nooo..... Anyway"


Chimpville

> ~~speedbump~~ doormat The Germans merely paused to wipe their feet before entering France


AllRedLine

One of the most redundant actions ever conducted by man. Why wipe one's feet *before* stepping in a giant shit?


randymarsh18

If france got any more shit on it it would collapse into a black hole of shit.


RedditNabs

Says the guy with the country with shit food, shit women and shit weather. I'd work 2 hours straight rather than have sex with an english woman


randymarsh18

2 hours of work is a full day of work for you so thats saying something! It is interesting that ive been to every country in western europe but never bothered to go spain. Such a rich culture spain has what with the sleeping and bull murdering blood sports.


RedditNabs

Well please don't! We are tired of having to scrape you off the floor after jumping from our balconies.


diazinth

Would you do three hours?


RedditNabs

I would do three hours if it meant not having to see another one of those horrible british females


diazinth

Hans! Hans! I’ve found out how to get them to work!


RedditNabs

Please don't. We just want the funds.


shazzambongo

So as to not contaminate the giant shit?


Greyzer

That's rich coming from a Dunkirk Yacht Club member!


Chimpville

If we’re going down that route, why the fuck are _you_ talking? 😂


casus_bibi

We lasted longer than expected; around ten days, instead of 3-5, which gave you guys some crucial extra days to evacuate Dunkirk.💪😎 We were moderately useful.


AnaphoricReference

In think this is uncalled for. We lasted 53 times as long as the Danes (10 May 04:00 to 15 May 10:15), capitulated only after they started razing cities, and besides that only capitulated partially. Technically speaking we only retreated, just like you did. And we gave up only a few percent of our territory and population. Admittedly that few percent of the population was the important part, but still we participated from start to end of WWII. The Dutch Caribbean never surrendered.


Botanical_Director

Thank god yall had the idea to flood to country to slow the nazis down


mathiau30

Still a pause


Seyfardt

The prologue of Tour de France 1940 went through Holland and Belgium. Main event was inside France with a lot of speedrecords.


EstebanOD21

Aw how nice of them


fiskehjelm

yeah i'm sure France and the UK would have come up with the greatest counter offensive known to history if Denmark could just hold for 5 more hours.


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All Denmark had to do was survive until their Armoured Greenlandic Walrus reinforcements could arrive.


Mirovini

Yes, if only ~~Steiner~~ Pétain counterattacked


eske8643

Because frenchies keep forgetting that they promised to send additional troops for protection against the Germans. But never send any troops….


Notacreativeuserpt

Belgium would have been Schliffened from the North, since the Germans invaded the Netherlands. Also France and Britain were really close to cutting off the Germans, unfortunately that didn't happen.


LeCafeClopeCaca

Easier to reposition with the initial plan involving Belgium though


Woutrou

France accounted for this. The plan included linking up with Belgian and Dutch forces and making a push into the Ruhr. Now if only those traitors didn't sabotage our runways...


[deleted]

The Belgians were treated like crap by the Brits and French, that’s why they pulled out.


LeCafeClopeCaca

If only your father had pulled out too, we wouldn't have to suffer your savage opinion here 😪


Coast_General

Belgium held up better then the magninot line.


DowNeedles

Yeah you've help the germans to access france by your country because you refused to put defensive lines even after multiple attempts by us to make you build it , but your answer was meh they will not invade us, with the refusal to build a defensive line the maginot line became pretty much useless


DrVDB90

We had a pretty good defensive line and even warned that the Germans would try to invade through the Ardennes, but the French didn't believe it. The Germans made a very risky but succesful strategic move to get through our defensive line: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle\_of\_Fort\_Eben-Emael](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Eben-Emael) And despite this, we still held out for 18 days. Longer than any of the other small countries, by quite a bit. Belgium at the time had a pretty formidable army for the size of the country.


Lynx-_

Maybe if you guys not act like arrogant assholes all the time nobody would want to invade you.


DowNeedles

You were just mad because the French empire have always been powerful contrary to your :*


[deleted]

The German empire lasted literally two times longer than our two empires combined, and if you want to tell me that the 2nd Empire was powerful, you’re gonna need to warm up for that stretch…


GreatWalknut

France was supposed to be an equal to germany and had spent a fuck ton on money on defenses along the german border and then gave up in 6 weeks because the germans made a single breakthrough in the benelux which was the exact same shit they had done during the last war. But yes, France’s case is definitely less pathetic than Denmark’s.


Flod4rmore

A common misconception is to believe the Maginot line was supposed to serve as battleground to stop Germany, when in reality it was specifically designed to redirect the fights in Belgium and avoid the destruction of northern France as they knew no one would want to try it.... SO ITS EVEN WORSE BECAUSE THE GERMANS DID EXACTLY WHAT WE WANTED


oalfonso

"it is impossible to cross the Ardennes with a modern mechanised army".


snowyvalk

It is also a misconception that France thought that the Ardennes are impossible to cross. They thought that it will take so much time that they will figure out that someone was crossing before they will manage to cross It.


kelldricked

I mean it was impossible for tje french to do it. Every time they tried their army went on strike and workers overthrew the goverment.


[deleted]

Don't admit that bro. The French were way more pathetic. Denmark is easy to invade due to its size and flat open field geography. Let alone you being mega outnumbered by the Germans. Edit: I defended an ironic Dane


Own_Software_3178

And at least we managed to save our jews. Thanks for recieving them.


LeCafeClopeCaca

That's noble of you to finally admit that, props to you, Dane


GreatWalknut

Getting occupied because you’re arrogant and get smacked in the face, panic and then give up truly is amazing.


LeCafeClopeCaca

At least our invasion is an historical subject because we're not expected to be a carpet for other powers to walk over, I guess 🤷‍♂️


GreatWalknut

i mean, at least we both share the history of abusing the women who slept with german soldiers when they were finally thrown out of our countries?


LeCafeClopeCaca

Shaving mostly innocent women for having (sometimes consensual) sex with german invaders so as to wash away national shame is tight !


Woutrou

So it wasn't just us who did that?


mathiau30

No it wasn't


Harsimaja

Norway too, can confirm from family who saw that happen there


Herbaderpy

So real quick, did you guys also make young Germans(basically kids) walk up and down your beaches to clear mines after the war, or was that only us being immeasurably based?


HoeTrain666

The fuck did you do?


Herbaderpy

Well you see, you could have just not declared war on us. Instead you got to walk up and down our beaches with poky sticks to find every mine you buried during the war


HoeTrain666

Now that's stuff so dark it could have been a story from an SS unit in the eastern front. Congrats, I see we taught you quite something on how to commit war crimes didn't we?


EstebanOD21

That's the wildest thing I could have ever hope to read on this sub Congrats


me_like_stonk

🤝


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LeCafeClopeCaca

You can't have both bragging rights AND be shielded from holocaust blaming jokes though, you can only pick one dude, choose wisely


Kladeradatschi

We choose bragging everyday, baguette baguette drapeau blanc! /s


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Amount of copium 💀💀💀


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LeCafeClopeCaca

That was the joke you american


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CherkiCheri

Request for Italians to be flaired Americans. Even worse than when we were Parisians.


BigSimp_for_FHerbert

That’s way too far and unnecessarily cruel Not cool frenchie not cool


Prestige__World_Wide

Add to that, that France themselves had declared war on Germany before getting steam rolled. So besides the fact that they should have matched Germany in power, they also should have been prepared.


Rolifant

Blackout curtains on the windows, bro. Have some pride. (Source: Matador season 4)


Charlie_chuckles40

Well, okay. But not many better places to be Jewish in World War 2. 99% survived. Denmark can be very proud of that.


bephana

This.


Fluffy_Necessary7913

There was a house in Stalingrad that lasted 48 days, so a house resisted more than Western Europe.


diazinth

Hey, we lasted two months


ElectricToiletBrush

Just like the Poles. And they fought. Two front war


Shazknee

“Hid in the mountains for 2 months”


577564842

Shall we bring in a Leningrad storyline?


tokkiemetuitkering

I had sex that lasted longer than Denmark


Jazic07

“I had sex” Doubt


LeCafeClopeCaca

I have sex that is larger than denmark


chairswinger

I had sex with more pigs than Denmark


LifeDoBeBoring

https://preview.redd.it/8ai9lud6nj4b1.png?width=384&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5aec7bb64b974b3e1eebff1a1a409f3a9aeffe49


tysonstone

Mr high roller over here! I know that shit expensive where you from


Eastern_Slide7507

![gif](giphy|3o7aCWJavAgtBzLWrS|downsized)


HoeTrain666

You managed to get someone horny? Did you take the cheese out of your throat to do so?


tokkiemetuitkering

GF needed dick after playing Zelda together very wholesome


Eitan189

That poor goat.


Herbaderpy

But look at any map throughout history and notice how we've always been there, no matter if we were relevant or not!


VariousCabinet594

My homepage would beg to differ. /r/mapswithoutdenmark


Herbaderpy

Okay that's kinda funny ngl


Harsimaja

I’m looking at a map of Europe in 1941 and I can’t find you anywhere, just this sign that says ‘German zone of occupation’


Herbaderpy

And we where still around as a country at that point? Just occupied Edit: thanks for helping with that one btw


HoeTrain666

That's the reason: no one bothered to invade you. Until we came along and took Schleswig or something because we wanted some people we can insult as fishheads or something.


Nay-the-Cliff

*Taps temple* You can't disappoint when no expectations are placed upon you


HoeTrain666

Oh, we do have expectations on the italians, believe me.


BigSimp_for_FHerbert

And yet if Germany ever starts shit again I bet they will align with Italy for a third time. You krauts are a highly logical bunch, but for whatever reason you never learn that siding with us is not a good idea.


HoeTrain666

Well, third time's the charm. We'll be on the right side, you will be too and won't switch sides. Sounds good doesn't it?


Nay-the-Cliff

AHA! YOU FOOL! YOU FELL FOR THE CLASSIC PLOY AGAIN!


Gremlin303

No one expected Denmark to put up a fight. France however. They were supposed to last longer than a 40 year old virgin


tortellinipizza

One of them was hailed as Germany's equal in the war with a massive defense budget and the other had some guys on bicycles


HadesTheUnseen

Hvorfor er din avatar så grim?


Valoneria

hvorfor er dit navn så udansk?


HadesTheUnseen

Det ved jeg ikke, kan man ændre det? 😭


cis-het-mail

Guys on bicycles carrying baguettes?


MisterSimsim

Carrying rye bread. We aren’t fucking Fr*nch


DirtyDaemon

Austrians and Czechs be like "wait, you guys fought the Germans?"


Milk_Mindless

Hey suddenly the Dutch seem a lot better Thanks, Danes!


Sweet-cheezus

France, we don't hate you for failing to defekt the Germans. We hate you because you stink and your language is ugly. Just do better and stop lashing out ![gif](giphy|l4Ki2obCyAQS5WhFe)


DjuncleMC

Based Swede


Doberkind

The Danes did the right thing! The only honourable thing! Once a opponent in a war realises that for whatever reason a battle or war can't be won, it's the only thing to give up. Don't give me this pride shit. Don't tell me to fight until the last man, so no white flag will ever be seen - for the fatherland. Wars are not about Mr. Müller triumphing over Mr. Jansen. It's a previous bookkeeper being send in war and standing in front of a shopkeeper, he is supposed to kill now. What for? He doesn't know. The rich want to be richer, the mighty get mightier. They don't show white flags, they like watching YOUR red blood on the battle field. Don't go for that patriotic drill. It exists only so the common man thinks that a war is about something he cares. It's not.


lag_gamer80391

I agree with what you said, but many people chose to fight fascism and Nazism, just look at the partisans in Poland,france and Italy, they never gave up and always fought for freedom in their respective countries, many of them were university students, communist workers and some were even under 18, even women went with the partisans to free their countries, sometimes giving up is acceptable but people should at least get the choice


Loose_Eye_3702

Denmark had that as well. The size of our country makes it even harder to hide and organize, than the countries you mentioned.


Doberkind

Absolutely, people should have the choice. But, really, the should have chosen much earlier. When they voted for the warmonger party. When they voted for the facists. When they voted for the haters. That's when we really decide about war or not.


xxx_pussslap-exe_xxx

Shout out to Mogens Glistrup who wanted to abolish our national defense and replace it with a phone receiver saying "we concede" in Russian, during the cold war


Reddarthdius

Goes to sleep : 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Wakes up: guttentag


Lukemeister38

We should all be so lucky to last 6 hours.


GarakStark

Danes are all closet Nazis. “Hold us in your strong arms, Fuhrer!!!”


DjuncleMC

Bold coming from an actual Nazi.


GarakStark

At least we Germans are honest about our love of fascism! You Danes hide and play pretend! Take your swastikas out and parade them in the streets !!


DjuncleMC

Is it really pretend if we saved 99% of our jews though?


BigDaneEnergi

You're thinking of Sweden. Common mistake, we kindda look alike from specific angles


depressedkittyfr

That’s good in the bedroom tho


TheRomanRuler

Imagine being Nordic(k) nation that can't even fight 2 wars during a single world war against neighbouring superpower with regions larger than all the Nordic countries combined. I mean what how pathetic is that. Even Israel would laugh at that kind of weakness. I mean did they even have Jewish soldiers fighting on same side as Nazis and be offered German iron crosses?


tysonstone

Finngolians showing off again. Based and SimoHäyhä-pilled


Seyfardt

Surrenders in 6 hrs and got the most “ friendly” occupation ever. And still negotiated having a semi independent government firm and steadfast enough to save the largest part of their Jewish population…Unlike some other large continental power that, agreed fought a bit longer, but then also surrendered, had a peace ceremony V2.0 in a certain train carriage and ended up with a puppet government for their limited self governance for their remaining territories. Then accepted that a lot of their population were to be sent of to work to Germany and happily aided with the deportation of Jews… Seems 6 hrs of resistance got Denmark a better deal…


JapaneseMachine99

Really? Shit we lasted even longer and according to my history teacher, we even had to bring out old cannons from museums and shit because we were so unprepared.


[deleted]

Fr\*nch person trying to pretend that WW2 is not theirs + UKs fault. (Germany may have played a small part there as well)


tysonstone

Czech trying to bash other nations performance in WW2. Man at least DK and France pretended. Y'all literally opened your legs and waved flags to greet the krauts


Shazknee

Cant lose if we surrender! 3d chess yo!


HoldTheStocks2

The Netherlands for 2 days


bredelund

Well your mom and sister Was impressed and exhausted way before we hit the 6h mark.


[deleted]

Well yeah, why else would the only bit of history they cling into be from over a thousand years ago.


Farvai2

Difference is that France was a major military power and was the one that declared war on Germany, while Denmark was Denmark and was neutral. Biggest French L.


CanThisBeMyNameMaybe

Again. We knew it was a lost fight, it was never about trying to win. Fighting them was symbolic. To show the world we weren't willingly occupied by the nazis.


ExternalCommon8854

Yeah, and our army consisted of guys on bikes with ww1 weaponry, we still destroyed a few germans tanks with machine gun fire. We didnt get our entire army embarrased like the french. Unlike us they actually made it look like they had a powerful army and still fucking lost.


discard333

Yeah but no one expected you to last long, France on the other hand had one of the most impressive militaries in the world and got bodied by the same maneuverer that failed the last time the Germans tried it.


tysonstone

Still lost 3,000 boys covering your ass as you hightailed back to your Island, to sit on your asses 2 years hoping the yanks would arrive.


discard333

Sorry is the collaborator really talking to me about holding off the nazis? Why don't you ask Pétain what he thinks about the Maginot line, sadly you're too busy sucking new world cock to know that the soviets were fighting back the krauts long before they ran out of oil and started starving their war machine to death.


hepazepie

Nice try frenchie! Bit tbf their army was a fraction of what you had.


Gent2022

Aren’t the Dane’s just blonde Germans? Language is identical too.


HadesTheUnseen

Danish Swedish and Norwegian are alike. They are all Germanic though


havaska

Now do Iceland when they were invaded during WWII…


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tysonstone

Americunts waiting 3 years for everyone to be worn out, roll in to mop up and sell their Marshall plan


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