Suomalainen Waffen-SS-vapaaehtoispataljoona
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Suomalainen Waffen-SS-vapaaehtoispataljoona
The Finnish *Waffen-SS* battalion was established in the spring of 1941. Approximately 1,400 Finnish volunteers joined the battalion. The soldiers participated in the campaigns on the Eastern Front, in Ukraine and the Caucasus. In 1943 the battalion was dissolved.
[Finland’s Holocaust: Silences of History / edited by Simo Muir and Hana Worthen. – Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. – Includes Antero Holmila’s article “*’Soldaten wie andere auch’*: Finnish *Waffen*-SS Volunteers and Finland’s Historical Imagination.”]