Operation Haudegen

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Operation Haudegen was the name of a German operation during the Second World War to establish meteorological stations on Svalbard. It was active from 9 September 1944 to 4 September 1945. The station lost radio contact in May 1945, and the soldiers were capable of asking for support only in August 1945. On September 4, 1945 the soldiers were picked up by a Norwegian seal hunting vessel and capitulated to its captain.

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• Japanese holdout

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• Article on the "weather war" in the North Atlantic
• Article on the history of Svalbard Island
• "Vergessen, verloren, verwirrt" ("Forgotten, lost, confused", in German), Berliner Morgenpost, March 20, 2005.
• Dege, Wilhelm (2004). War North Of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station Of World War II. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 087081768X.