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| 12/01/1941 |
Recruiting of Norwegians for the 'Nordland' Regiment of the 5th SS Motorised Division 'Wiking' begins. |
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31/01/1941 |
The new recruits of the ‘Nordland’ Regiment give their oath to SS Reichsführer Himmler in Oslo. |
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06/02/1941
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The Bishops of Norway start the Church’s struggle against the occupying German forces. |
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04/03/1941 |
On the northern Norwegian coast, British light naval units and commandos carry out a raid on the Lofoten islands near Narvik, destroying the port and oil storage facilities. |
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28/04/1941 |
A clampdown is made in Norway against degenerate literature, with large-scale book burnings being held. |
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22/05/1941 |
Himmler establishes Norwegian SS on German lines. |
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| 17/06/1941 |
Finland begins a secret mobilisation of its forces. |
| 25/06/1941 |
The Red Air force launches an a number of air attacks against Finland's airfields, in the hope of destroying German aircraft which were believed to be stationed in Finland. |
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26/06/1941 |
Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. |
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29/06/1941 |
The German 20th Mountain Army launches Operation 'Silver Fox', an offensive to capture the Soviet port of Murmansk, while the Finnish Karelian Army activates its offensive towards Leningrad. |
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| 07/07/1941 |
Under the pretext of defending the western hemisphere against Axis incursions, the U.S. 1st Marine Brigade is landed in Iceland to relieve the British garrison that has been there since the previous year. |
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10/07/1941 |
The Finnish Karelian Army begins an offensive toward Lake Ladoga to the Northeast of Leningrad. |
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28/07/1941 |
Finland ends diplomatic relations with Great Britain. |
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31/07/1941 |
Joseph Terboven declares a state of emergency in Norway. |
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| 02/08/1941 |
All radios in Norway are confiscated. |
| 26/08/1941 |
Anglo-Canadian and Norwegian commandos land on Spitzbergen, 370 miles north of Norway, to deny the coal mines to the Germans. They destroy installations and mining equipment and evacuate the Norwegian population. |
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29/08/1941 |
Russians evacuate Karelian Isthmus to Leningrad. The Finnish troops capture Vyborg and are now only 30 miles North of Leningrad. |
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04/09/1941 |
Finns refuse to advance on Leningrad. |
| 07/09/1941 |
The offensive of the German 20th Mountain Army in northern Finland to capture the vital Lend-Lease port of Murmansk, Russia, comes to a halt. |
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07/10/1941 |
Finland rejects a British demand to cease fighting the Soviet Union. |
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04/11/1941 |
Finnish forces capture the Baltic naval base of Hangö that Finland was compelled to lease to the Soviets in 1940. |
| 06/11/1941 |
Finnish advance halted on the Northern Front. |
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02/12/1941 |
Soviet troops evacuate the last territory in Karelia, taken from Finland in the 1939-1940 war. |
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27/12/1941 |
A combined services commando raid on German occupied islands off Norway results in 200 Germans killed and 16,000 tons of shipping destroyed. |
