About this stamp issue:
Date of issue: 6 September 2023

This stamp depict the German battleship "Tirpitz" in Arctic waters.

The Allied had a small garrison in Barentsburg (Svalbard) with men from Norway, Canada and Great Britain. The garrison was established with aim to build a weather station. Both the Allies and the Germans needed weather forecasts for the Arctic Ocean. This became particularly important after the US and Great Britain began sending weapons and materiel with the Arctic shipping convoys in August 1942.

To avoid the Allied to build up weather forcast capasities on Svalbard the Germans carried out the attack on Svalbard with the battleships Tirpitz and Scharnhorst in September 1943. Barentsburg, Longyearbyen and Grumantbyen were almost completely destroyed.

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