 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Germany neFinland vanga vari muhondo neSoviet Union USSR kubvira Operation Barbarossa yakatanga muna Chikumi 1941, vachishanda pamwe chete muhondo yeContinuation War uye Operation Silver FoxneGermany 20th Mountain Army yakamira muLapland. Pakutanga muzhizha ra1943, vakuru vakuru veGermany Oberkommando der Wehrmacht vakatanga kuronga kuti Finland ingakurukura chibvumirano chorugare chakasiyana neSoviet Union. VaGermany vakaronga kubvisa mauto avo kuchamhembe kuti vadzivirire migodhi yenickel pedyo nePetsamo . Munguva yechando ya19431944, maGerman akavandudza migwagwa kubva kuchamhembe kweNorway kuenda kuchamhembe kweFinland nekushandisa zvakanyanya vasungwa vehondo basa mune dzimwe nzvimbo. Kurasikirwa pakati pevasungwa vaishanda kwakanga kwakakwirira, muchidimbu nemhaka yokuti vazhinji vavo vakanga vatapwa kumaodzanyemba kweEurope uye vakanga vachiri muunifomu yezhizha. Mukuwedzera, vaGermany vakaongorora nzvimbo dzekudzivirira uye vakaronga kubvisa zvinhu zvakawanda sezvinobvira kubva munharaunda yacho, uye vakagadzirira zvakanyatsogadzirirwa kubviswa. Musi wa9 April 1944, chirongwa chokubva kweGermany muGermany chakatumidzwa kuti Operation Birke. Muna June 1944, vaGermany vakatanga kuvaka masvingo okurwisa muvengi aigona kuuya achibva kumaodzanyemba. Rufu rwengozi rwa Eduard Dietl musi wa 23 June 1944 rwakaunza Lothar Rendulic kumira kwe20th Mountain Army. 