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Toward the end of the war, as the Russians began their advance into Norwegian Lapland, the Germans withdrew in good order, carrying out scorched-earth operations of extreme severity: No house, shack, or shed was left standing. In this area of inhospitable climate, where the population density was less than three persons per square mile, reconstruction after the war would be exceedingly difficult. The continued decimation of the reindeer herds might have serious consequences for the nomadic part of the population.
These little things are great to little man.
—Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764)
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Petterssen, S., Fleming, J.R. (2001). Tea in the House of Lords. In: Fleming, J.R. (eds) Weathering the Storm: Sverre Petterssen, the D-Day Forecast, and the Rise of Modern Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-05-8_22
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