Finland Confronts Its WWII History: "If You Only Knew How Many Jews I Have Shot"
Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...
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For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here as conscripts. Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny ...