Talk:Army Norway (Wehrmacht)

OKH or OKW

The OKH was not "the high command headquarters of the Wehrmacht". It was the high command of the Army (Heer). If the Norway Army was directly under the Wehrmacht high command, the artice should say OKW instead of OKH. If not, the word Wehrmacht should be changed to Heer. Since Hitler had a habit of assuming direct control of some operations, it's possible that the Norway Army was under the OKW. I don't have any citations, so I haven't changed the article either way.

I renamed this from "Army Norway" to "Army of Norway"

because for one thing the article body doesn't use "Army Norway" but rather "Norwegian Army".

But mainly, "Army Norway" is not really idiomatic, not how English speakers describe armies. The Americans don't much go for territorial designations, but when we did, it was "Army of Northern Virginia" not "Army Northern Virginia" etc. For the Brits it's "Army of Palestine" and "Army of the Rhine" not "Army Palestine" and "Army Rhine" etc. OK got that straight. Moving on.

Armeeoberkommando Norwegen means "Army High Command, Norway" or you could say "Army Headquarters, Norway". For our purposes here it's a synecdoche for the German forces in Norway. Fine, it's a synecdoche, but for what? It could be "Army of Norway", "Norwegian Army" (or other things, such as "Ground Forces in Norway", but those two seem the most likely).

I don't like "Norwegian Army" because it courts confusion with Norwegian Army, the army of the actual Norwegian state. So "Army of Norway" it is.

This move should be reverted, it's not an army by/from the Norwegians but a german army tasked with operations in/from Norway. AOK Norwegen and Armee Norwegens is the same, they are not different. AOK Norwegen had a command branch in Finland for military operations there that later became AOK Lappland, then 20. Gebirgsarmee. --Denniss (talk) 00:38, 16 July 2022 (UTC)