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171 Norway 1941 ▶ Gebirgsjäger Mountain Troops quotUnternehmen Silberfuchsquot 12 Kirkenes Murmansk
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Norway 1941 ▶ Gebirgsjäger Mountain Troops Unternehmen Silberfuchs (Part 1/2) Norwegen Kirkenes Murmansk - Unternehmen Rentier / Unternehmen Platinfuchs / Unternehmen Polarfuchs / Unternehmen Silberfuchs / Unternehmen Nordlicht • / @germanhistoryarchive • Playlist ▶ • GERMAN HISTORY ARCHIVE • Unternehmen Silberfuchs was a German Wehrmacht operation during World War II on the Eastern Front in northern Scandinavia. The primary objective was to capture the Soviet port city of Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula by attacking from Finnish and Norwegian territory. Successful repulsion of the attack enabled the Soviet Union to land urgently needed war materiel from the United States and Great Britain in the port of Murmansk through the North Sea convoys for the remainder of the war. In January 1941, German officer Erich Buschenhagen was sent to Finland to explore the possibility of Finnish-German cooperation against the Soviet Union. Since July 1940, plans had emerged in Germany to occupy the nickel mines of Petsamo as Germany's only relevant source of this war-essential raw material in the event of another armed conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union (Unternehmen Rentier). In February 1941, agreement was reached regarding plans for Unternehmen Silberfuchs, and German soldiers were transferred from Army High Command Norway to northern Finland. The troop transfers were planned under the code names Blaufuchs I and Blaufuchs II and took place in June 1941. The German army group consisted of four divisions: the 169th Infantry Division, the 6th SS Mountain Division North , the 2nd and 3rd Mountain Divisions, and two Panzer Divisions (40 and 211), totaling 68,000 German troops and 190 aircraft.[1] In addition to the German troops, the Finnish 3rd and 6th Divisions, as well as several other independent Finnish border units were to participate. After securing Petsamo, phases two and three were to be initiated: Unternehmen Platinfuchs and Unternehmen Polarfuchs. Within Unternehmen Platinfuchs, it was planned that the 2nd and 3rd Mountain Divisions under Eduard Dietl, together with some Finnish frontier units, would advance directly on Murmansk and capture the city. Similarly, Unternehmen Polarfuchs was to begin further south. Here, the XXXVI Mountain Corps (consisting of the remaining German as well as the Finnish 6th Division) under General Hans Feige together with the Finnish III Corps (consisting of Finnish border units and the Finnish 3rd Division) under General Hjalmar Siilasvuo were to recapture the town of Salla and then advance toward Kandalaksha, thus blocking the road to Murmansk. The operation was planned as a blitzkrieg. Dietl said confidently: In three days we will be in Murmansk. The failure of Operation Silver Fox affected the progress of the war. While all other Soviet battle lines had collapsed, the Red Army was able to hold the northern front. The eventual German defeat in Finland was triggered by a number of factors, significantly by the fact that the terrain prevented the rapid advance. One of the main means of blitzkrieg tactics to break through enemy lines was thus inapplicable. Another problem was that the northern theater of war was not directed by the Army High Command, as in Unternehmen Barbarossa, but directly by the Wehrmacht High Command. Reinforcements were not foreseen here and there was no effective coordination of action with that of the Finnish allies. Especially the SS units from Norway, which were designed more as police units, did very badly.[5] In the end, the northern front was seen by the German leadership from the very beginning as a secondary theater of war. The few reinforcements and poor supply situation were also reasons why the operation failed. The port of Murmansk could not be taken, so war material from the U.S. and Britain continued to be landed there. The importance of this material to the Soviet Union's war effort can be seen from the fact that the temporary disruption of the North Sea route after the sinking of many of the ships of the PQ 17 North Sea convoy set back Soviet attack planning in the north by almost two years. • history, ww2, Germany, Россия, simplehistory, military, worldwar, Norwegen, Norway, Kirkenes, Murmansk • #history #ww2 #Norway #Kirkenes #Россия #Germany #military #Murmansk #worldwar2 #war #wwii #simplehistory #Norwegen
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