 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - chiteshi chengarava cheMurmansk chakanga chiri chinangwa chevaGermany muna 1941. Panzer-Abteilung 40 pamwe chete nePanzer-Abteilung 211 yakabatanidzwa neXXXVI Mountain Corps iyo yakaita Operation Arctic Fox chikamu cheOperation Silver Fox, yaida kutorazve nzvimbo yeSalla kubva kumaSoviet uye ndokuzoenda kumabvazuva ndokucheka njanji yeMurmansk paKandalaksha. Kurwisa kwakatangwa musi wa1 Chikunguru 1941. Mauto eGermany neFinland akatorazve nzvimbo yeSalla, asi akazomiswa nehondo dzakapoteredza Kestenga, uko kushanda kwakava kusagadzikana. Chikwata chakaramba chiri munharaunda iyi muna 1942, ndokuzodzokera kuNorway. Yakaparadzwa musi wa 10 June 1943. 