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

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

American servicemen in Greenland during the second world war. Signal Corps Archive / Wikimedia CommonsWhen 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 …