Hi Hugo! Thanks for the accurate and deep additional information. You�re right: the "propaganda factor" is something we have to deal with when analising the facts. However, the sense of my post was to emphasize the special strategy, war "viewpoint - so to speak -, of the Fallschirmtruppe. We can see it in the first operations carried out by them. Some of them (Albert Kanal, Kerfin�s men, Elverum, Masned� or even Dombaas...)took the form of sending an advance force to take important targets, and hold the objective until the attacking forces arrived. The special training and a sort of "willpower", typical of the high-motivated soldier, led them to achieve the success, despite the "logical". They made profitable their skill, in short. Kerfin, Wenzel on the plateau of Eben Emael, but also Walther in Norway, taking as examples.
The latter could cross a bridge by means of a "bluff". The position was strongly defended by larger Norwegian soldiers, while coming back from the raid on Elverum on 10 April 1940. He told the Norwegian parlamentary, who asked Walther to surrender, that three Fallschirmj�ger Regiments had jumped behind his group (around 96 men) and were ready to attack if the Norwegian didn�t let them cross the bridge. At last, the group, 50 trucks and all the POWs they have made, resumed their march to Oslo...
Regards. �scar