Hi Vidar,

Thanks for the additional info. For another good book about a German weather station see: Dege, Wilhelm. War North of 80 – The last German Artic Weather Station of World War II. Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1954. ISBN: 0-87081-768-X.

From the back cover:

A rare account of a World War II German Arctic Weather Station

"Operation Haudegen" was the code name for a secretly established weather station located in a remote comer of Svalbard, in the High Arctic, during the winter Of 1944-45. During World War II, the German Navy and Air Force set up this and other weather stations in the farthest reaches of the Arctic, from eastern Greenland to Franz Josef Land, to gather and monitor vital weather data needed for German military operations in northwestern Europe.

War North of 80 is the personal story of Wilhelm Dege, leader of the last of these stations who, along with his team, was left behind in this desolate land when the Hitler regime crumbled and the war ended in 1945. It was not until later that year, in September, that the Allies sent a ship northward to retrieve Dege and his crew, thus making Dege's team the last German troops to surrender.

Accompanied by a detailed introduction, William Barr's translation offers English-speaking readers a rare glimpse into the activities and importance of these isolated outposts. Dege's son, Eckart, visited his father's base camp in 1985, recovering Wilhelm's journal and other documents. From this material, Eckart has contributed appendices on the post-war careers of the men who braved the rigors of the Arctic alongside his father.

An arctic geomorphologist by training, for the past thirty years William Barr has focused his research on the history of Arctic exploration. He is a research associate at the Arctic Institute of North America and the editor of the Northern Lights series co-published by the Institute and the University of Calgary Press. He has published fourteen books, including translations from German, French, and Russian, and over one hundred articles.

Regards,

Ken Dunn