Operation Northern Lights (1944)
Operation Northern Lights was the code name for the withdrawal of the 20th Mountain Army from the Petsamofront to northern Norway in late 1944 to early 1945.
On October 28, 1944, General Alfred Jodl , Chief of the Wehrmacht Command Staff , ordered the complete and ruthless deportation ( evacuation ) of the Norwegian population and the destruction of all accommodation east of the Lyngenfjord . The order was carried out with the severity and thoroughness commanded in most places. It was one of the war crimes for which Alfred Jodl was convicted at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Earl F. Ziemke: Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. P. 395 ff.
- ^ Arnim Lang: Operation Northern Lights - The Destruction of Northern Norway by German Troops ... , published in End of War in the North: From Hot to Cold War , editors: Robert Bohn and Jürgen Elvert, Franz Steiner Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-515-06728-0 .
- ^ Opinion and Judgment of the Nürnberg International Military Tribunal , Equipo Nizkor, accessed 23 August 2015.