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Nazis, Soviets and Trump: US’ fixation with Greenland
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A US-built Cold War-era satellite station, referred to locally as Mickey Mouse, on a hill above Kangerlussuaq in western Greenland.
PHOTO: IVOR PRICKETT/NYTIMES
Michael Crowley
WASHINGTON – The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when US soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on the island’s desolate west coast and took dozens of prisoners. Within a year, Germany would be defeated, and World War II would be over.
But 80 years of both tension and cooperation between Denmark and the US over Greenland was just beginning – culminating in US President Donald Trump’s current obsession with acquiring the Arctic island
