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Slagmarksarkæologi i Nordøstgrønland. Rapport over projektet 'Kampen om Klimaet' – en arkæologisk-historisk undersøgelse af allierede og tyske vejrstationer fra Anden Verdenskrig. SILA - The Arctic Centre at the Ethnographic Collections, The National Museum of Denmark. 109 s. SILA Feltrapport nr. 30.

  • January 2009
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Jens Fog Jensen at The National Museum of Denmark
Jens Fog Jensen
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... In Greenland, several manned weather stations were established by the former. The two most successful of those were Holzauge and Bassgeiger in northeast Greenland, each in operation for almost an entire year in 1942-1943 and 1943-1944 (Jensen and Rasch 2009;Jensen and Krause 2009a, 2009b, 2011. ...
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... Inevitably, the Northeast Greenland Sledge Patrol discovered their German opponents and a series of skirmishes occurred between the Allied forces and the Wehrmacht. The events have since been described in popular accounts (Balchen 1958;Balchen & Ford 1944;Howarth 1957;Weiß 1949) as well as in the scientific literature (Blyth 1951;Jensen & Krause 2009;Selinger 2001;Skarstein 2007). Yet the ruins of the bombed and burned-out buildings in Northeast Greenland have remained Thus, realizing that Germany, in need of systematic weather data, would probably establish weather stations in Northeast Greenland, the Danish Governor Eske Brun, in alliance with the autonomous Danish diplomatic representative Kaufmann in Washington, chose to evacuate the resident population of Danish and Norwegian trappers out of Northeast Greenland (Heinrich 2012;Jensen et al. 1945). ...
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... In this article we will report on the preliminary results of our field work at these two localities, and recount the historical events in this remote theatre on the basis of our comparative archival studies. The results of the fieldwork have been reported more comprehensively in a report of the National Museum of Denmark (Jensen and Krause 2009). ...
Wehrmacht occupations in the new world: Archaeological and historical investigations in Northeast Greenland
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As the axis powers were denied access to data from international weather stations under allied control, soon after the outbreak of World War II Germany had to establish her own network of manned and automatic weather stations throughout the north Atlantic. These operations were primarily run by the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe. In Greenland, several manned weather stations were established by the former. The two most successful of those were Holzauge and Bassgeiger in Northeast Greenland, each in operation for almost an entire year in 1942–1943 and 1943–1944 respectively. The allied forces, in return, had established the North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol in 1941, in order to defend the Northeast Greenland coast against German activities. In 2007 and 2008, archaeologists and historians from the National Museum of Denmark investigated the remains of the allied station at Eskimonæs on Clavering Ø (Clavering Island) and the German station Holzauge at Hansa Bugt on Sabine Ø (Sabine Island).
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