Conclusion
Operation Platinum Fox was a German failure. Although Dietl was able to make some ground, his insufficient forces were soon stopped by the Soviets. The presence of British-Soviet naval forces at the Barents Sea hampered German efforts to adequately supply his forces and the general unwillingness of the German High Command to reinforce something which they considered as a secondary theater paved the way for the only successful Soviet resistance in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa. The failure of Platinfuchs had a major impact on the course of the war in the east. Over the course of the war, the Soviet Union received approximately a quarter of its Lend-Lease supplies through the port of Murmansk, and the port of Arkhangelsk, contributing to its continued resistance.
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