[2] When the Waffen SS forces realized that they were about to be defeated, a group tried to break out in the south of the other German positions on Hasselmann, but very few succeeded in this.

After twelve days of hiking through the forest, this group managed to reach the Sashaikh support point.

Fifteen Norwegian prisoners of war from the Kaprolat battles returned to Norway in the period between the autumn of 1945 and October 1953.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, an initiative has been taken to bring the remains of the Norwegian fighters home to Norway.

Professor Stein Ugelvik Larsen at the University of Bergen heads the so-called Kaprolat Committee, which works to identify the remains of the Norwegian SS soldiers.