Oula Seitsonen (Sakarin-Pentin Ilarin Oula) is an archaeologist and geographer at the University of Oulu and University of Helsinki, Finland.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Hitler’s Arctic War and its Material Remains; 2. Why an Archaeological Study of the Second World War?; 3. Finnish-German Waffenbrüderschaft: The Northern Brothers-in-arms, 1940-1945; Part II. Strangers in a Strange Land: Germans and their Prisoners in an Alien Arctic Landscape; 4. Soldiers’ and Prisoners’ Places and Landscapes; 5. Soldiers’ and Prisoners’ Things and Materiality; 6. Entangled with the North: Placelessness, Disorder and Dislocation; Part III. Ignored, Yet Remembered: Post-war Significance of the German WWII Remains; 7. Heritage Past, Present and Future; 8. Materialities of a Haunting Past – or Present?; 9. Positive Uses for a Haunting and Difficult Past; 10. Custodians of "War Junk": Local and Global Heritage of Second World War in Lapland