Operation Silver Fox in the farthest northern reaches of continental Europe had a direct impact on the war in the Eastern Front.
Map 1: Finland from 1920 to 1938

Map 2: The Winter War, 1939-1940

Map 3: Areas Finland ceded to the USSR after the Winter War

Sources:
Operation Silver Fox: The History of Nazi Germany’s Arctic Invasion of the Soviet Union During World War II . Published by Charles River Editors, 2016
David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2009.
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