It was Hitlers personally who stood behind the dream of an Artic Railroad. From Fauske, with a side track towards Narvik, the main line was to go all the way to Krikenes. The organisation "Todt" faithfully started this enormous task northbound from Fauske, through Hamarøy and Tysfjord. On this stretch alone, over 8 000 POW's were set in. Digging tunnels, building fundations and making new tracks and landfillings.

This slave-labour went on, in what best can be described as wilderness. These constructiones were far more challenging than the Germans had enticipated.

Norwegian Nazi-guards was also used, and in Tysfjord, stories goes that these Norwegian guards treated the POW's fare worse than their German piers. In Sommarseth, by Leirfjord, eleven POW's was shoot during an uprising. As a last salute, afther the German capitulaton, the Russian carved into the mountain-wall:" IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIENDS, FOREVER".

Hitler was posessed with the idea of an extension of the Polar Eisenbahn, that he repeatedly brought up the subject during his dinner speaches. Aternatively he suggested, the possibility to extend the railway from Trondheim to Narvik. This would ensure the safe transportation of iron-ore from Sweden, and, vice-versa, secure transportation of supplies towards the Polar-front. Even as late as mid-April, 1945, from the deep of Hitlers bunker in Berlin, orders was given that suplies og coal and oil should have highest priority in the construction of the Polar Eisenbahn. The work on the Polar reilroad kept on until the German capitulation May 1945. More than 20 000 POW's slaved on these projects. About 1200 lost their lives. Even today, there remindes of the Polar Eisenbahn can be seen as half-made tunnels, weird concrete constructions and overgrown traks. Several places along the Polar Eisenbahn is still referred to as "the Railroad".