Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (born Nikolaus von Jastrzembski, 17 January 1885 – 18 June 1968) was a German General in World War II. He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940, and was commander of German troops in Norway from 1940 to 1944.
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“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn’t have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)