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Four weeks after the armistice with Russia, war-drained Finland was still trying to throw out the once-welcome German guest. Russia joined in at the Arctic Ocean to speed the parting. With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool. Helsinki was still hopeful that it would be able to demobilize its soldiers by Dec. 5-the armistice deadline...
...When Finland surrendered, most of the Germans in northern Finland were dug in near the nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
...forests with snow. In the north the Russians landed six miles from Petsamo, at the northern terminus of the Arctic highway, marched in to capture the port three days later. When the Russians neutralized Kirkenes and the Finns reached Rovaniemi, organized German resistance could no longer continue. Then Finland would have peace...
...Finland's craggy, 78-year-old Jean Sibelius was interviewed early this month, at his villa north of Helsinki, by LIFE Photographer Eliot Elisofon. His report...
...Russia and the Satellites. "Armistice terms agreed upon with Finland and Rumania bear naturally the impress of Soviet will and here I must draw attention to the restraint which characterized the Soviet terms to these two countries. . . . Bulgarian armistice terms have not yet been signed. Soviet intervention in this theater was at once startling and effective. The sudden declaration of war by Russia was sufficient to induce Bulgaria to turn her caitiff arms against the German intruders...