How did Finland treat Jewish locals during WWII?
Upvote:-3
Jewish men served in the Finnish military like all the other Finnish men (and some volunteers), many Jewish women served as volunteers in the Lotta Svärd organization or as nurses etc. The civilians continued their lives as best as they could, considering the fact that the country was at war against the Soviet Union.
http://www15.uta.fi/FAST/FIN/HIST/tv-jews.html
Edit: One should first know if there were any Jews in those areas, alive. The best guess is that only a small number if any, considering Stalin's Purges in the area (and there were not that many of them in the first place). If they were Russian Jews, they would have been treated as other Russians.
Upvote:4
There was no restrictions on the civil liberties of Finnish Jews. Nazi Germany requested for the handing over of Finnish Jews, but Finnish leader C.G.Mannerheim refused.
350 Jews fought in the Finnish army on the German side. Several Jewish officers would have received the Iron Cross but refused. Finnish army also had a field synagogue.
Finland handed over eight Jewish refugees to Nazi Germany. Seven of these refugees were killed in concentration camps. On the other hand 500 Jewish refugees were granted asylum.
At least 500 Jewish or Communist prisoners of war were handed over to the Germans to be executed. Einsatzkommando Finnland was active in Northern Finland.
More post
- 📝 How did Native Americans defend militarily?
- 📝 Was there a semi-professional soldiering class in Early Middle Ages Europe?
- 📝 Does anyone have an example of the Tamil elephant symbol?
- 📝 Why did Cao Cao slaugther the inhabitants of towns?
- 📝 Even though Spain and Portugal had many colonies (15th/16th C), what factors permitted UK/France to become world powers later (18th/19th C)?
- 📝 Did the average height of men in late Victorian England decline due to poor nutrition?
- 📝 What legal code first provided tenants rights and/or covered eviction?
- 📝 Was the US Army during the WW2 Western Front a motorized army, a mechanized army, or neither?
- 📝 Can you identify this ship of 1922?
- 📝 Sculpture identification
- 📝 Former French PM Blum was in Buchenwald -- what is known about his life there?
- 📝 What was the size of the British East India fleet at the end of the War of 1812?
- 📝 (How) Did criminals in the middle ages get treatment for injuries?
- 📝 Does the number of legs in the air of a horse statue indicate how its rider died?
- 📝 When did households become electrified?
- 📝 Is the former adviser to the prime minister Dominic Cummings related by marriage to Andrew Wakefield?
- 📝 Why was 17th Century England a particularly supportive place for groundbreaking thought?
- 📝 How did the Japanese populace view the emperor during the Edo Period?
- 📝 What is Revolutionary Monotheism?
- 📝 What was Richard Owen's status within the Royal Society in 1858?
- 📝 Whereabouts of the ancient Korean cannon in Kamchatka
- 📝 Were the North Vietnamese close to collapse in 1972?
- 📝 Why did Cretan archers flourish?
- 📝 How can we evaluate a country's historians for independence?
- 📝 What role did the Eastern Roman Empire play in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
- 📝 How were precise hand drawn illustrations copied between the 16th and 20th century in Europe?
- 📝 Were children in Soviet Union commonly expected to thank Stalin for food, even when he was not present?
- 📝 Aryanization in Nazi Germany. What did it mean in reality?
- 📝 Piece of cloth in bullets in pistols around the pirate age
- 📝 Great Wall of China Controversy
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 How did Finland treat Jewish locals during WWII?
- 📝 What was American anti-tank doctrine during WWII on paper, and how did it differ from in practice?
- 📝 How did Nazi Germany finance itself during WW2?
- 📝 How did pilots know when to release bombs on airplanes during World War2?
- 📝 How did the authorities not find the speakeasy clubs during the prohibition?
- 📝 How did the Nazis plan to defeat America during World War II?
- 📝 How beneficial were war bonds to the US during WWII
- 📝 How did people deal with ice on the roads during the horse-and-buggy era?
- 📝 Why did Churchill become the PM of Britain during WWII instead of Lord Halifax?
- 📝 In the early 1900s, how did US politicians treat black dignitaries from other countries?
- 📝 How did the Allies communicate during World War II?
- 📝 How did the Japanese treat captured "Flying Tigers" in World War II?
- 📝 How did Allies secure southern flank during "Race to the Rhine"?
- 📝 How did Bligh navigate during his open boat voyage after losing The Bounty?
- 📝 How long did it take US fleet submarines during World War 2 to charge their batteries?
- 📝 When during their construction did Bible-era Jewish temples become "holy"?
- 📝 How did the way commanders ask their troops to deal with the immediate death of their comrades vary by country/culture during WWII?
- 📝 During the U.S. Prohibition, how did they get away with drinking alcohol?
- 📝 How did German racial laws affect people who weren't Jewish but one of their parents wasn't German?
- 📝 How much time did people have to take shelter during the Blitz in 1940-41?
- 📝 How did Soviet soldiers resist tanks during the battle of Shumshu?
- 📝 How did the KPD relate to the German state during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
- 📝 How did one's statistical chance of survival as a hidden Jew change during the course of the Nazi occupation of northern France?
- 📝 During the French Revolution, how did the French address non-citizens?
- 📝 How did pumps work during the Age of Sail?
- 📝 How and why did the Cavalry lance temporarily fall out of favour during the 16-18th centuries?
- 📝 How long did it take to copy a Bible during the early propagation of the Christian faith?
- 📝 How did the United States treat POWs in Vietnam?
- 📝 How did tobacco affect the English colonies economically during the 17th Century?
- 📝 How did China deal with the Black Death during the second plague pandemic?