Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Paul Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German general and a 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.

After the war, Falkenhorst was tried by a joint British-Norwegian military tribunal for war crimes. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1946. The sentence was later commuted to twenty years' imprisonment. Falkenhorst was released in 1953 and died in 1968.
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the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940
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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
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17 January 1885
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18 June 1968
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1940
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1953
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1968-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1968
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