No. The Germans occupied Norway because most of their iron ore supplies (vital in wartime) came from deposits in northern Norway and because the long coastline

No. The Germans occupied Norway because most of their iron ore supplies (vital in wartime) came from deposits in northern Norway and because the long coastline was ideal for placing U-boot bases to harass shipping bringing in goods to the UK on a northern route. In some sense it was a “preventive occupation” because Britain and France were obviously eyeing some kind of interdiction.