ARCTIC DESOLATION
GERMAN ATROCITIES FIRST-HAND STORY <lO a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 4. Between 18,000 and 21,000 out of a total of 23,000 inhabitants of eastern Finmark evaded deportation by the Germans, the Norwegian Minister of Justice, M. Terge Wold, disclosed after his return from a visit to Kirkenes and other liberated areas in eastern Finmark. M. Wold, who brought back the first detailed account of conditions in this part of Norway, said that German destruction everywhere was catastrophic, and German atrocities scarcely describable. All habitations in eastern Finmark were more or less destroyed. Those who had seen this vast, ruined region in the Arctic would remember the sight for the rest of their lives.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21579, 5 December 1944, Page 3
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