What if: Rädda Danmark ("Save Denmark") in 1945

The 24 000 meters is often quoted because that was the max range the ships themselves could spot in clear weather (about the horizon) and thus correct their own fire. However, the navy did practice doing over the horizon fire with a plane or a quick patrol boat to do the spotting ahead for the Sveriges.

The original motivation for the planned operations was for a scenario where the Germans in Norway and Denmark refused to surrender and would hold the civilian population hostage (or even start killing to show they mean business) to get conditional terms for surrender. In such a scenario, the Swedish military believed they would be in the best position to quickly intervene and stop the Germans. Rädda Norge was the serious and believable operation, where the Germans (without Swedish intervention) could have had a chance to hold out for a while. Rädda Danmark was basically the navy's brainchild due to mostly being left out of Rädda Norge.

Well, a variant of it did happen in Bornholm... only it's the Soviets killing Danish civilians... >_>
 
Wich could have prevent of one allied officer had arrived there and accepted the surrender of the 12,000 strong German garrison.

Perhaps. The NKVD could have made him disappear all the same and the Allies would just shuffle their feet. A significant force landing before the Soviets would have provided a guarantee, though.
 
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