SS-Obersturmfuehrer Ulf-Ola Olin. Finnish army officer, 2nd lieutenant, born in 1917. Like many Finnish men, he served in the Winter War of 1939-40, then volunteered for the Waffen-SS in 1941 and decided to stay in the SS until the end. He commanded the 5th Panzer battalion of the Viking-SS division.


SS-Obersturmfuehrer Ulf-Ola Olin

The Finnish SS volunteer battalion in its poignant good-bye march in Ruhpolding, Upper Bavaria, Germany, June 1943

Finnish SS volunteer battalion good-bye march 

Finnish Waffen-SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Jouko Itälä in his office in the Waffen-SS HQ in Berlin