Lapplandsender
{{Short description|Military radio station for Nazi German forces in Finland and Norway during World War II}}
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File:Wir Lernen Finnisch 1944.jpg
Lapplandsender ({{Langx|de|Soldatensender Lappland}}) was a World War II military radio station for Nazi German forces in Northern Finland and Northern Norway. The transmitter was in the German garrison area outside the provincial capital of Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle. The station was under command of Propagandakompanie 680, which was one of the propaganda units of the Wehrmacht, the German army.
Lapplandsender broadcast entertainment, news and propaganda daily from December 1941. In October 1944, during their retreat from Lapland, the Germans took the station down and moved it to Bergen in Western Norway. Shortly afterwards, Rovaniemi was burned to the ground during the course of the Battle of Rovaniemi.
See also
External links
- http://www.stellamaris.no/konigs.htm
- http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Propaganda/Propaganda-R.htm Propagandakompanie 680
- [http://www.yle.fi/player/player.jsp?name=El%E4v%E4+arkisto%2F06263_1 Finnish Broadcasting company archives files]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} General Dietl's eulogy 1944
Category:Nazi propaganda organizations
Category:Military history of Germany during World War II
Category:Eastern European theatre of World War II
Category:History of Lapland (Finland)
Category:Finland–Germany relations
Category:Propaganda in Finland
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