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Did the US ever ‘give back’ Greenland to Denmark, as Trump claims?

By Rikke Lie Halberg, PhD Candidate in History, Lund University

When Nazi Germany began its occupation of Denmark in April 1940, Greenland suddenly found itself cut off from its colonial power and thrust into the centre of North Atlantic wartime strategy. The US took control of Greenland temporarily, establishing bases and defence perimeters there to prevent Germany from using the island.

More than 80 years later, Donald Trump invoked that moment at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his speech…

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