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Did the sinking of the Blücher in 1940 affect the outcome of the war?

The answer is, we shall never know – but one Norwegian colonel’s quick decision may have ensured Churchill’s premiership and the success of Dunkirk

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

The Sinking of the Blücher: The Battle of Drøbak Narrows, April 1940 Geirr Haarr and Tor Jørgen Melien

Greenhill Books, pp.432, 29.95

In the conclusion to this forensically detailed book, the authors, one a naval historian, the other a retired naval officer who served in the Oscarsborg fortress outside Oslo – the cornerstone of the story – during the Cold War, ask: ‘What would have happened if Hitler had not unleashed his dogs of war on Norway in April 1940, or if Blücher had not been sunk?’ To which of course they reply that we shall never know.

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