The
Lapland War (; ; ) was fought between
Finland and
Germany from September 1944 to April 1945 in Finland's northernmost
Lapland Province. While the Finns saw this as a separate conflict, much like the
Continuation War, German forces considered their actions to be part of the
Second World War. A peculiarity of the war was that the Finnish Army was forced to demobilise their forces while at the same time fighting to force the German Army to leave Finland. German forces retreated to
Norway, and Finland managed to uphold its obligations under the
Moscow Armistice, although it remained formally at war with the
Soviet Union, the
United Kingdom and the
British Dominions until the formal conclusion of the Continuation War was ratified by the 1947
Paris Peace Treaty.