Re: Finland June 1941
- From: "Michele" <nospammiarmel@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:47:13 -0500
"bernardZ" <BernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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Immediately before Hitler attacked Russia, the Finnish had stated that
they were willing to join Germany against Soviet Union. German forces
were being moved into Finland and some joint ventures were conducted by
the German and Finnish troops. In border areas Finnish civilians were
moved out. Just before the conflict Finnish and German naval forces were
mining the areas around Finland, with one Finnish submarine mining the
areas around Estonia.
Did Finland know of the coming attack by Hitler on Russia? Surely they
must have known something was happening?
Of course.
A meeting of
parliament was scheduled for June 25 when Prime Minister Rangell had
been due to present a notice about Finland's neutrality in the Soviet-
German war, but the Soviet bombings led him to instead observe that
Finland was once again at war with the Soviet Union.
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Knowing that the war was on, could Finland have gotten out of the
conflict on June 25 or was it too late?
That assumes the statement above is true and that Finland _wanted_ to remain
neutral.
But, supposing that the Finnish government changed their minds and decided
on June 25 that they did not want to violate their duties as neutrals, yes,
it was too late. They should have decided that earlier and should have not
allowed German troops free movement within their territory, to start with.
.
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