Editing Operation Barbarossa (section)

===Central and northern Finland===
[[File:Continuation War December 1941 English.jpg|thumb|The front in Finland, December 1941]]

In central Finland, the German-Finnish advance on the Murmansk railway had been resumed at Kayraly. A large encirclement from the north and the south trapped the defending Soviet corps and allowed XXXVI Corps to advance further to the east.{{sfn|Ziemke|1959|pp=170–172}} In early September it reached the old 1939 Soviet border fortifications. On 6 September the first defence line at the Voyta River was breached, but further attacks against the main line at the [[Verman River]] failed.{{sfn|Ziemke|1959|pp=174–178}} With Army Norway switching its main effort further south, the front stalemated in this sector. Further south, the Finnish III Corps launched a new offensive towards the Murmansk railway on 30 October, bolstered by fresh reinforcements from Army Norway. Against Soviet resistance, it was able to come within {{cvt|30|km|mi}} of the railway, when the Finnish High Command ordered a stop to all offensive operations in the sector on 17 November. The United States of America applied diplomatic pressure on Finland not to disrupt Allied aid shipments to the Soviet Union, which caused the Finnish government to halt the advance on the Murmansk railway. With the Finnish refusal to conduct further offensive operations and German inability to do so alone, the German-Finnish effort in central and northern Finland came to an end.{{sfnp|Ueberschär|1998|pp=941–953}}{{sfnp|Mann|Jörgensen|2002|pp=93–97}}