NAZI DIVISIONS.
AMERICAN ESTIMATE. WASHINGTON, April 16, Reports from American . official sources abroad indicate that Germany has only 10,000 troops in Norway plus whatever she has been able to fly there. It is estimated that these do not exceed a thousand daily. Germany sent six divisions to Denmark, but has only attempted so far to transport two to Norway. Originally she attempted to send 30,000 troops, hut the Allies sank transports carrying 8000, and 17 loaded transports are at present held up in Denmark by the British Navy. Germany has concentrated opposite the Belgian and Dutch borders 68 divisions. In the Siegfried Line and Greater Germany altogether there are 193 divisions or 2,900,000 men mobilised. It is understood there are 187 divisions left in Greater Germany, hut the whereabouts of only 108 are known.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 7
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