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Soviet Doctor treats wounded Finn

Here we see a Soviet doctor treated a wounded Finnish soldier who had been captured early in the 'Continuation War', the Finnish contribution to the German attack on the Soviet Union. The Finn was rather unlucky to have been captured this early in the war - the vast bulk of Finnish POWs were taken during the Soviet offensives of 1944 that forced Finland to change sides.
Finland's War of Choice - The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II, Henrik O. Lunde. A history of the Finnish 'Continuation War', which found the Finns fighting alongside the Germans in the Soviet Union, a democracy fighting alongside a dictatorship in perhaps the most brutal conflict in history. Looks at the background to Finnish entry into the war, their confused war aims, the course of the fighting and the eventual Finnish attempts to exit the war and survive as an independent nation. [read full review]
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (3 September 2026), Soviet Doctor treats wounded Finn , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_soviet_doctor_treats_wounded_finn.html

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