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Finnish sappers training with a captured soviet ROKS-2 flamethrower during an exercise in Aunus, Karelia, Finland, March 1943. The Lapland War was the last intervention of Finland in the Second World War. I was not fought against the Soviets, as the Winter and Continuation War, but fought against Germany from September 1944 to April 1945 in Finland's northernmost Lapland Province. For the German, the retreat through Lapland was part of the Second World War as part of their two campaigns to evacuate northern Finland and northern Norway, which would derive in Operation Birke and Operation Nordlicht. The Finnish Army was required to demobilise their forces by the Russians, who had ordered through the Moscow Armistice, but also attack the Wehrmacht in the northern areas. Eventually, German forces retreated to Norway. However, Finland would suffer an awful post-war situation, with more than 100,000 inhabitants becoming refugees and an irreparable debt. Casualties were not as heavy as before, with just 774 Finnish soldiers perishing in the war, in front of c. 1,000 Germans.

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