"" no less than 1408 Finnish volunteers served directly in SS Panzer division carrying out mass atrocities including the extermination of Jews and other war crimes"
They served in 5th SS Viking Division that it is significant to say , no members were ever charged with war crimes by Allied Victors Tri…
"" no less than 1408 Finnish volunteers served directly in SS Panzer division carrying out mass atrocities including the extermination of Jews and other war crimes"
They served in 5th SS Viking Division that it is significant to say , no members were ever charged with war crimes by Allied Victors Tribunals , even Soviet Stalinist ones.
That the article puts forth the very idea of Panzer Divisions being used for Police work ( counter - insurgency exterminating ) , when tanks are desperately needed at front line , bogles me.
"" As the Finnish SS Wiking Division advanced via west Ukraine between July-August 1941, over 10,000 civilians were killed in Lviv"
A "Division" of 1,408 ?
The 10,000 "civilians" were mostly Stalinist agents killed in retribution for the slaughter of millions of Ukrainians.
The word "civilian" itself is misleading.
It only means they were not soldiers.
Most of them were N. K. V. D. Police executioners , but technically "Civilians".
The Fins made up one battalion out of about a dozen in the Viking division, and who claims these front line troops were involved in killing any of the 10,000 ?
Then, article goes on to misrepresent
"The Strange Case of Finland’s Enduring Swastika"
""The origin of von Rosen's swastika is actually from the Vikings, as he adopted it when he was a child in Gotland" ( 1880s )
Hitler was not yet born then.
If the Finish Swastika had anything to do with National Socialism , the Soviets would have never tolerated it's continued use when Finland was at their mercy at the close of W W 2 .
BRAVO! The swastika had 0-Noll-Null-Zero to do with anything nazi when it comes to Finland. Matt unfortunately extrapolates 'ex post facto' the true History there.
Out of context half - truths
For example
"" no less than 1408 Finnish volunteers served directly in SS Panzer division carrying out mass atrocities including the extermination of Jews and other war crimes"
They served in 5th SS Viking Division that it is significant to say , no members were ever charged with war crimes by Allied Victors Tribunals , even Soviet Stalinist ones.
That the article puts forth the very idea of Panzer Divisions being used for Police work ( counter - insurgency exterminating ) , when tanks are desperately needed at front line , bogles me.
"" As the Finnish SS Wiking Division advanced via west Ukraine between July-August 1941, over 10,000 civilians were killed in Lviv"
A "Division" of 1,408 ?
The 10,000 "civilians" were mostly Stalinist agents killed in retribution for the slaughter of millions of Ukrainians.
The word "civilian" itself is misleading.
It only means they were not soldiers.
Most of them were N. K. V. D. Police executioners , but technically "Civilians".
The Fins made up one battalion out of about a dozen in the Viking division, and who claims these front line troops were involved in killing any of the 10,000 ?
Then, article goes on to misrepresent
"The Strange Case of Finland’s Enduring Swastika"
""The origin of von Rosen's swastika is actually from the Vikings, as he adopted it when he was a child in Gotland" ( 1880s )
Hitler was not yet born then.
If the Finish Swastika had anything to do with National Socialism , the Soviets would have never tolerated it's continued use when Finland was at their mercy at the close of W W 2 .
BRAVO! The swastika had 0-Noll-Null-Zero to do with anything nazi when it comes to Finland. Matt unfortunately extrapolates 'ex post facto' the true History there.
Thank You Larry for pointing this fact(!) out.