Norway 1941 ▶ Mountain Troops “Unternehmen Silberfuchs“ (1) Deutsche Gebirgsjäger Kirkenes Murmansk

171 Norway 1941 ▶ Mountain Troops Gebirgsjäger “Unternehmen Silberfuchs“ (Part 1) Kirkenes Murmansk - “Unternehmen Rentier“ / “Unternehmen Platinfuchs“ / “Unternehmen Polarfuchs“ / “Unternehmen Silberfuchs“ / “Unternehmen Nordlicht“ German History Archive ▶ “Unternehmen Silberfuchs“ was a German Wehrmacht operation during World War II on the Eastern Front in northern Scandinavia. The primary objective was to capture the Soviet port city of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula by attacking from Finnish and Norwegian territory. Successful repulsion of the attack enabled the Soviet Union to land urgently needed war materiel from the United States and Great Britain in the port of Murmansk through the North Sea convoys for the remainder of the war. In January 1941, German officer Erich Buschenhagen was sent to Finland to explore the possibility of Finnish-German cooperation against the Soviet Union. Since July 1940, plans had emerged in Germany to