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WED 25 OCT 1944War day 1,882Eastern Front
On 25 October 1944, Soviet troops entered Norway’s first liberated town. The Germans had left; the buildings were another matter.
Kirkenes had served as Germany’s main supply port and staging area for operations in the Murmansk sector. In October 1944, the Red Army’s Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive drove German forces west from Petsamo and across the border into northern Norway. The advance began on 7 October. Its original aim was to surround and destroy German forces on Soviet territory; crossing into Norway had not been part of the plan. It became unavoidable when that aim failed and the German 20th Mountain Army withdrew across the frontier.
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