Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The research document entitled The Finnish SS-volunteers and atrocities 1941 - 1943 against Jews, detailing atrocities against ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Finland has commissioned an investigation to find out whether a Finnish volunteer battalion serving within Nazi Germany’s notorious Waffen SS committed atrocities during World War ...

On Thursday, the Finnish Prime Minister's Office called for an independent probe into the role of Finnish Waffen-SS soldiers in the killing of Jews and civilians during World War II, between the years ...

(JTA) — Finland will investigate evidence suggesting that soldiers of its army were involved in killing Jews during the Holocaust, the office of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said. The announcement ...

An independent investigation confirmed several cases in which Finnish SS-volunteers of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division engaged in violent acts against civilians and Jews in Ukraine and the Caucasus ...

Lauri Törni, also known as Larry Thorne, fought in three different armies during his lifetime. Starting in the Finnish Army ...

For decades Finland’s Waffen SS volunteers were remembered mainly as anti Soviet soldiers caught in a brutal war, but the 2019 National Archives investigation forced a far darker reckoning. This is ...

HELSINKI - An Israeli Holocaust historian praised authorities in Finland on Sunday for publishing a report that concluded Finnish volunteers serving with Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS “very likely” took ...