DBWI: No Norwegian War of Independence

What if the Norwegian War of Independence had not broken out against Sweden in the early 20th century? Would relations between the Scandinavian nations be better without the effects of the war? Would Sweden have remained neutral rather than drifting into the German sphere without the tacit British support for the Norwegian rebels?
 
There was no Norwegian War of Independence in reality. Norway just said up the union in 1905, followed up negotiations. Some months later, Sweden accepted it without any fighting. Sweden hasn't been at war since 1814.

What Nazi Germany cared for in the Nordic regions was just for controlling the routes of cargo steamships entering and leaving the Narvik port, carrying Swedish iron ore onboard.
 
There was no Norwegian War of Independence in reality. Norway just said up the union in 1905, followed up negotiations. Some months later, Sweden accepted it without any fighting. Sweden hasn't been at war since 1814.

What Nazi Germany cared for in the Nordic regions was just for controlling the routes of cargo steamships entering and leaving the Narvik port, carrying Swedish iron ore onboard.
Yes but this is a DBWI.
 
It's possible things might have gone better for the Germans in the Great War- the tensions in Scandinavia did a lot to bring Britain into the war, whereas the UK might not have leaped in so quickly just to protect Belgium. And while the Northern Front was hideously brutal, it never really came close to staving off the Entente's victory.

Where things get really interesting is after the end of the war. Assuming that the Russians have their revolution on schedule, and it decays into civil war, it will go very differently without sizable numbers of British and French troops in the Nordic countries.
 
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