Martti Ahtisaari: Honoring and Commemorating Finland's Nazi SS Troops
September 18th, 2006Martti Ahtisaari: Honoring and Commemorating Finland's Nazi SS Troops
These are the Finnish Nazi SS troops which Martti Ahtisaari planned to honor and commemorate in 1999. The fifth photograph from the top shows SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner, one of Adolf Hitler's favorite commanders, inspecting the Finnish Volunteer SS-Battalion "Nordost" on May 23, 1943 with SS-Obersturmbannführers Hans Collani (left), the commander of the battalion, and Finnish Liaison Officer Kalervo Kurkiala (second from left), and Finnish Major Erkki Kokko. Steiner was the commander of the 5th SS Volunteer Division "Wiking", to which the Finnish Nazi SS Battalion "Nordost" was attached. The Wiking SS Division committed numerous massacres during World War II. He commanded the 11th SS Panzer Army during the last weeks of the war in 1945 when Adolf Hitler tasked him with defending Berlin from the advancing Russian forces. Steiner commanded the SS Regiment Deutschland before the formation of Wiking. This is the photo link:
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/quarters/2130/disbandation.htm
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) news dispatch from 1999 on Martti Ahtisaari's plan to honor Finland's Nazi SS troops, "Finnish Jews Upset over Commemoration", Helsinki, Friday, May 28, 1999:
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