The first successful paratrooper attack was conducted by the Germans against what country?
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That was when they landed on the roof of Fort Eben Emael in Belgium, wasn’t it?
Nope. This was before that.
Then it was probably Poland. I don’t think they were used in Norway.
No they didn’t use them in Poland. It was their next invasion.
It was a month earlier than the Belgium/Netherlands assaults during the invasion of Norway when the took an airfield near Stavanger. The Fort Eben-Emael attack also had a large portion of glider troops also, and on the same day (10 May) they also took some airfields in the Netherlands. The last major German parachute assault was in Crete in May 1941 where they again succeeded but had such high casualties that Hitler forbade further such attacks, which considering the huge losses incurred by other forces, seems odd for him.
No, it was even before Norway. Which probably helps you narrow it down.
Denmark then.
Process of elimination.
I didn’t know that the Germans used a small number of parachutists in Denmark a couple of hours before the Norwegian landings on 9 April 1940. Thanks, I learned something!
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