Scandinavia as co-belligerent to Axis in WWII

What would it take for all of Scandinavia, possibly organized around something called the Nordic Council or similar, to be a co-belligerent of Nazi Germany during World War II?
 
Doing this off the top of my head, so someone who's an expert in the field will probably find a couple things wrong with it.

Germany does not invade Denmark or Norway (obviously). When the British land at Narvik as part of their plan to knock out the Swedish iron mines and help Finland with the Winter War, a miscommunication/massive screw-up leads to the British and Norwegians firing on each other, and by the end of the day there are hundreds or thousands of Norwegians dead and Narvik is in British hands. Norway has little choice but to declare war on Britain, and Sweden joins in once it learns of British plans to take over their iron mines. Denmark joins the war out of sympathy with Sweden and Norway.

Alternately, we could have the Soviets be much nastier to Finland during the Winter War, which might prompt the Swedes and Norwegians to openly intervene in support of the Finns. Finland still loses, but when Barbarossa starts the other Scandinavians join Finland in the Continuation War.
 
Chengar posts the most non-ASB scenario I can think of.

However, the Norwegians were really so pro-British that I seriously doubt there would be more than a few dead before the Norwegians surrender, if they fight at all. And Sweden will not intervene on behalf of a nation that does not fight. It took a month of brave fighting before the Swedes realised the Finns were not going to be used as a doormat by the Soviets, and suddenly there was a sudden outpour of support, moral, financial and in the form of lots of weapons and volunteers.

The Nordic/Scandinavian countries were in no way acting together before, during or after ww2. The Nordic Council is a place for the heads of state and government to meet and discuss matters such as trade and free movement of people and goods between the countries - it never had any real foreign policy influence, other than when all agreed on some matter, the Council could speak out on the issue in a non-committed way.
 
I have agree that only a few deaths before the Norwegians surrender is much more likely, but in that case there would almost certainly be a diplomatic solution instead of war (Britain apologizes, pays some reparations to the families of the dead, probably court-martials whoever was responsible, and that's the end of it). Given how pro-UK the Norwegians are and how vulnerable the Norwegian merchant marine, which their economy depended on, is to the British, you really need to have the initial incident be bad enough that a diplomatic solution is impossible and the Norwegians see it as a de facto declaration of war.

An expanded Winter War scenario is probably easier to pull off, but I suspect that, just like Finland OTL, there would be very limited goals to any Scandinavian participation in the Continuation War.
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Hitler had considered invading Sweeden along with Norway and Denmark over the Altmark Incident.

Maybe with his Nordic obsession, he'd form a combined government from the three countries? A restored Kalmar Union?

Though I can't see such a government getting any use beyond being an occupation mechanism. A co-belligerent? No...

Though I suppose the inevitable SS-Kalmar division would crop up.
 
A Nazi puppet state comprised of Denmark, Norway and Sweden run by local fascists and formed around a pan-Scandinavian and Nazi ideology, using the Kalmer Union flag with a swastika stuck on it.:D

Now I’m not saying this would be an effective or loyal Nazi ally but it’s sure as hell the only way Sweden will ever turn crazy enough to attack to attack Russia. The Germans could likely sqeeze out quite a few SS divisions and the ''Scandinavian Army'' might be more effective than you’d think and would be a Nazi ally this case. There were more fascists and other unpleasant people running around in Sweden at the time than most people would like to remember.
 
I believe there were plans for Britain to get troops into Norway, the Germans just beat them to the punch. Maybe if there is some Lusitania-level PR fuckup from the British side? Not sure how to get Denmark in on the German side though.

Maybe what we need is a less competent leadership in the UK, or a less cautious Stalin? Either might manage to provoke Scandinavia.
 
A Nazi puppet state comprised of Denmark, Norway and Sweden run by local fascists and formed around a pan-Scandinavian and Nazi ideology, using the Kalmer Union flag with a swastika stuck on it.:D

Now I’m not saying this would be an effective or loyal Nazi ally but it’s sure as hell the only way Sweden will ever turn crazy enough to attack to attack Russia. The Germans could likely sqeeze out quite a few SS divisions and the ''Scandinavian Army'' might be more effective than you’d think and would be a Nazi ally this case. There were more fascists and other unpleasant people running around in Sweden at the time than most people would like to remember.
The general position here is that there were more Germanophiles less concerned with what kind of regime actually were in Germany than most people would like to remember. IE, they weren't necessarily fascists in Sweden, just nazists in Germany. Not that there weren't full-blown nazists and general anti-semite authoritarians around, though oddly most of the organisations of them seemed to be of the Strasserite tendency.

Hm. I could see Sweden get involved in the Winter War, assuming it happens, in a less... 'now-warfaring' way than OTL, for example if Sweden had started on re-armament earlier, and that might - might, I stress, have made for a deeper Norwegian-Danish contribution. Of course, that says nothing about a Continuation War, and would not fulfil the requirements of co-belligerency to the Axis in WWII. Indeed, there might well not be a Continuation War in such a timeline, and so Sweden still would not attack Russia, it'd just have a bout of war with them.
 
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