Today we went out to take a look on Lakselv. We went to Skoganvarre east of the city.
We met this view of Lakselv and the mountain, the Porsanger fjord and the airport.
May I ask you to scroll the picture to the right?
The spring has come as far as this. A birch.
The airport is a construction wich dominates the city. It has a special story. During world war two the germans had an air base here. 30.000 german soldiers were stationed here in Lakselv.
Here, I’ve tried to capture how the high mountains everywhere reminds us of their presence. Again, the airport.
We found something surprising. The city has a bathing beach with wonderful fine sand.
All the memories from the war marks the city and the inhabitants a lot. When we went up to the mountain to take a look on the city we found this overgrown stair. An old german military camp.
Just beyond the stairs we recognized some scrap in the forest.
When we went closer we found this old rusty gasoline can.
What does the text say? We must to look closer.
“Wehrmacht”. It’s german and means “The Army”
This gasoline can has laid here for 60 years. It has been preserved because metals don’t rust so fast here due to the climate. Could it be, this gasoline can was used when the germans burned the camp? We don’t know. The germans burnt the whole city of Lakselv down. Yes, the whole county they burned when they left the area.
Tomorrow we will travel to Karasjok.
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