Lapplandsender () was a

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military radio station for

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forces in Northern

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and Northern

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. The transmitter was in the German garrison area outside the provincial capital of

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in the

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. The station was under command of ''Propagandakompanie 680'', which was one of the

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units of the

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, 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

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in Western Norway. Shortly afterwards, Rovaniemi was burned to the ground during the course of the

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*http://www.stellamaris.no/konigs.htm *http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Propaganda/Propaganda-R.htm Propagandakompanie 680
Finnish Broadcasting company archives files
General Dietl's eulogy 1944 Nazi propaganda organizations Military history of Germany during World War II Eastern European theatre of World War II Lapland (Finland) History of the Arctic Continuation War {{Finland-media-stub

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