Military Operations in Scandinavia and Iceland During World War II - Axis

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  • 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.
  • Holzauge ("Wood knot") (1942) — activities in Greenland
  • Ikarus (1940) — planned German invasion of Iceland in response to British Operation Fork
  • Juno (1940) — German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway.
  • Lachsfang (1942) — Proposed combined German and Finnish attack against Kandalaksha and Belomorsk.
  • Nordlicht ("Aurora Borealis") (1944) — German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula into Norway
  • Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) — German occupation of Finnish Petsamo
  • Silberfuchs ("Silver Fox") (1941) — German operations in the Arctic, including:
    • Blaufuchs 1 ("Blue Fox 1") (1941) — Staging of German forces from Germany to northern Finland.
    • Blaufuchs 2 ("Blue Fox 2") (1941) — Staging of German forces from Norway to northern Finland.
    • Platinfuchs ("Platinum Fox") (1941) — German attack towards Murmansk from Finnish Petsamo
    • Polarfuchs ("Polar Fox") (1941) — German attack towards Kandalaksha from Finnish Lapland
    • Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) — German occupation of Petsamo.
  • Sizilien (1943) — German raid upon allied occupied Spitsbergen (Svalbard)
  • Tanne Ost (1944) — failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland
  • Tanne West (1944) — planned German attempt to capture the Åland Islands from Finland
  • Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Denmark and Norway
    • Weserübung Nord ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Trondheim and Narvik
    • Weserübung Sud ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Bergen, Kristiansand and Oslo
  • Zitronella ("Lemon flavour") (1943) — German raid against a Norwegian/British station on Svalbard.

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