World War II ended in May 1945… but eleven German soldiers on a remote Arctic island never got the message.
In 1944, Nazi Germany secretly sent them to Spitsbergen for Operation Haudegen — a top-secret weather station. Cut off from the world, they kept sending reports long after Hitler was dead and the Reich had fallen.
Four months after the war ended, a Norwegian seal-hunting ship finally found them. They became the last German soldiers to formally surrender in World War II.
The war was over… they just didn’t know.
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