Finnish memorials

[Marcus Wendel]

We've added a small section on Finnish memorials to the AHF Factbook and I'd appreciate any additions you might have with images or information on these or other Finnish memorials. You can either post it here or send it to me at webmaster@skalman.nu

Thanks.

/Marcus

[Bair]

thank you I think this is a great project. I will have to dig in my computer and send you photos on Monday.

[Juha Tompuri]

Yes, great project - also in that sense that I guess there are thousands of war memorials in Finland and abroad.

Regads, Juha

[Marcus Wendel]

Yes, great project - also in that sense that I guess there are thousands of war memorials in Finland and abroad.

True, it can potentially be very large but that would only be a good thing as most of the visitors will not have the chance to see these memorials in real life.

/Marcus

[Marcus Wendel]

thank you I think this is a great project. I will have to dig in my computer and send you photos on Monday.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

/Marcus

[Hanski]

If I may add a caption to one of the photos of the link in the first post, taken at Hietaniemi cemetery (Sandudds begravningsplats) in Helsinki by Juho Ojala.

The second one from the top (the cross bound by stones on both sides, and a ring in the crossing as you would see around the bars of a prison's window) is a monument for Finnish POW's who died while in captivity.

[Marcus Wendel]

Thanks Hanski.

/Marcus

[Marcus Wendel]

A discussion was split off into a new thread: Finnish memorials, legions & brothers in arms

/Marcus

[Juha Tompuri]

A memory from the past:
"For the memory of the Soviet aviators, fallen in the wars"
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=152942&p=1330868&hilit#p1330868

Regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

From Valkeala cemetery today.
Two fallen aviators, Ltn Nissinen and Danish volunteer Ltn Rasmussen
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace09.htm
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/fineka02.htm
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/denmark.htm

Regards, Juha

[Hanski]

I will post some photos of familiar monuments at Hietaniemi cemetery of Helsinki, taken in somewhat different lighting conditions this time.

This memorial stone stirred some controversy at the AHF earlier this year:

aseveljet.jpg

The text is as follows:

ISÄNMAAN VAPAUDEN PUOLESTA
VUOSINA 1941-43
SAKSAN SOTAVOIMISSA
KAATUNEITTEN SUOMALAISTEN
VAPAAEHTOISTEN MUISTOKSI

ASEVELJET

What do you make of this?


It translates into English as

TO THE MEMORY OF FINNISH VOLUNTEERS
FALLEN FOR THE FREEDOM OF FATHERLAND
IN THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES
DURING THE YEARS 1941-43

BROTHERS IN ARMS

(For grammatic reasons, the order of words becomes different in English.)

The monuments remembers the Finnish fallen of the Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon der Waffen-SS.

[Hanski]

This is a close-up of the soldier figure in the previous monument.

sotilas.jpg

[Hanski]

The monument of the fallen Swedish volunteers in the Continuation War.

[Hanski]

The monument of the fallen Norwegian volunteers of the Winter War.

[Seppo Koivisto]

A plaque in Turku to commemorate the Winter War bombing of "Surprise Monday" on 29 January 1940, when the air alarm was delayed. The plaque was attached on 13 March 1986 and the additional plaque in 2011. 29 people were killed in the region of the Post House shelter, but the total number of victims of the air raid was 38.