Background
Gratangen was the site of some of the first battles between the German 3rd Mountain Division under Eduard Dietl and the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940.
After initial German success in surprising and routing a battalion from Trøndelag, the tide turned and the German were pushed southwards.
Read more about this topic: Battle Of Gratangen
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