Suomalainen Waffen-SS-vapaaehtoispataljoona

  • Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der Waffen-SS
  • Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS
Identifier
001392
Dates
1941-1943
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

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.

Places

  • Eastern Front, Ukraine

Sources

  • 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.”