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The Battle of Rovaniemi was an event during the 1944 Lapland War. The actual fighting between the components of the Finnish Armoured Division and Finnish 3rd Division against the troops of the German Twentieth Mountain Army took place at the vicinity of the town of Rovaniemi. The notoriety of the encounter derives from the near-total ...
A view in 2007 to the south-east from Sturmbock-Stellung, a fortified German position in Finland 100 km (62 mi) from Norway. Germany and Finland had been at war with the Soviet Union (USSR) since Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, co-operating closely in the Continuation War and Operation Silver Fox with the German 20th Mountain Army (German: 20.
Tornio 1944 (in Finnish). Jyväskylä: Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy. ISBN 951-749-144-1. Ahto, Sampo (1980). Aseveljet vastakkain – Lapin sota 1944–1945 [Brothers in arms against each other – Lapland War 1944–1945] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kirjayhtyma. ISBN 951-26-1726-9
This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Lapland War (1944–1945). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Pages in category "Battles of the Lapland War"
The Battle of Olhava occurred during the Lapland War on 28 September 1944. A brief armed struggle occurred in Northern Finland between retreating German troops and north of the advancement of the Finnish troops. The previous day the first skirmish between German and Finnish troops in Pudasjärvi. In Olhava, troops for the first time opened full ...
The same tactics had already been used in Finnish Lapland. The retreat ended on 20 January 1945. [2] A detailed account of 'the Nazis' scorched earth campaign in Norway' by Vincent Hunt includes statements by eyewitnesses, photographs taken at the time and a map of locations and prisoner of war camps. [3]
Birke ("Birch") (1944) — German plan to withdraw from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War; Birkhahn (1945) — German evacuation from Norway. Büffel ("Buffalo") (1940) — German operation to relieve troops in Narvik, Norway; Hokki ("Calk") (1944) — Finnish plan to destroy railroad tracks to deny the Soviets their supplies.
Operation Birke 1944 - German plan to withdraw from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War Operation Blei 1944 - German operations in Romania Operation Blitz 1944 - Axis anti-partisan operation in the Našice – Đakovo region of Slavonia , Yugoslavia