A member of Finnish Women's Auxiliary Defence Service (Lotta-Svärd) at work. Ellen Kiuru at Lahdenpohja aircraft warning tower.

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Finnish Women's Auxiliary Defence Service

Finnish infantry Second lieutenant enjoys his pipe tobacco flavor . Constant fighting took soldiers nerves on they limit and tobacco gave a little relax for the soldiers nerves. Thats why it was important to deliver tobacco for the soldiers on the frontlines.

Photo taken in 1941-1942 Winter place unknow

Second lieutenant

The Jewish Blankett brothers, who all fought for Finland 1939-1945

"We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy"

There may have been German troops in Finland and the German command and Gestapo in Helsinki, but Finland rejected Hitler’s demands to introduce anti-Jewish laws. When Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Final Solution, visited Finland in August 1942 and asked the prime minister Jukka Rangell about the “Jewish Question”, Rangell replied: “We do not have a Jewish Question.”