DAPAM 20-271 1959 : German northern theater of operations, 1940-1945.

• Main Author: Ziemke, Earl F.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Department of the Army, Headquarters 1959
• Subjects: World War; 1939-1945; World War Two; WWII; Campaigns; Military; German Armed Forces; European Theater of Operations (ETO); Norway; Denmark; Finland; Military operations; Military planning; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll8/id/2729

This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their northern theater of operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The document is divided into two sections. Part I describes the campaigns in Norway and Denmark (background of German operations, landings, plans, operations in southern/central/northern Norway, and the campaign in Norway). Part II details operations in Finland (plans and preparations, Operation Silberfuchs, Finland’s War, the northern theater in 1942, etc.).