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After twelve gruelling months surviving Polar bear attacks and being under constant threat of British Commando ambushes, they were ordered to destroy all their scientific and communications equipment.

Bolshevik Polar bears, to be exact.

Further reading: ‘The Last German Surrender’

‘The last Nazi to surrender in WW2: Incredible untold story of the final German soldier to hand over his pistol after spending the war battling polar bears in an Arctic weather station’

For the book on this subject, see Wilhem Dege’s War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II.

Click here for other events that happened today (September 4).

1891: Fritz Todt, Axis engineer, was born.
1909: Eduard Wirths, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz, was…born…today.
1939: The Third Reich suffered its first assault from the Royal Air Force.
1941: A Reich submarine assaulted a United States warship, the USS Greer. This was one of the earliest instances of a Fascist empire making a move against its Yankee competitor.
1944: The Axis lost the Belgian city of Antwerp to the British 11th Armoured Division, and Finland exited from the war with the Soviet Union. Simultaneously, the Third Reich executed one of its generals, Fritz Erich Fellgiebel, for conspiring against the head of sate.