Background
Salla was one of the areas occupied during the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939. The German XXXVI Corps, consisting of both German and Finnish troops, carried out Operation Arctic Fox as part of the larger Operation Silver Fox (Silberfuchs), which aimed at capturing the Soviet port at Murmansk.
This was part of the overall attack on the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, and was, for the Finns, part of the initial phase of their Continuation War (Jatkosota).
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