War in the Artic: Storm in the North

The Arctic: a featureless expanse of permanent ice, but even here the fury of World War II raged. A battle for mineral resources and strategic interests. Between 1940 and 1945, tens of thousands of soldiers fought above the Arctic Circle in temperatures as low as -60 degrees, abandoned to their fate and forgotten by the outside world. In 1940, German forces occupied Denmark and Norway virtually overnight. Securing control of northern Europe was vital for the Nazis: without the iron and nickel resources of Scandinavia,