German Forces

SS-Obersturmfuehrer Ulf-Ola Olin

NCY-152

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. He was.awarded the Iron Cross, first class, second class and the one of the highest medals of all, the German Cross in Gold. Olin led tanks in many famous battles against the Soviets on th eastern front in 1945, never losing his tank. After the war he was a POW and was declared a “traitor” by the postwar Helsinki government. He decided to stay in Germany and married a German woman. He finally visited Finland again in 1968, but returned to Germany, and he stayed loyal and active in the postwar SS soldiers' organization HIAG. He died in 1995 and was buried in Kassel.