FINLAND:
Infuriated at the fall of Danzig and Stettin the Kriegsmarine switched objectives from Riga to Helsinki, the Russian tsar's and English king's birthplace. Not properly defended, after a short bombardment the city fell to a marine assault. The atrocities that followed were justified,according to the German General staff, by the prolongment of the war in the east and the loss of many comrades.
No citizen, be it Slav or Finn escaped from the German wrath....
All males of military age were hanged in the town square and all underaged children were shipped to Germany to work in ammunition factories. All suitable females were used by the weary German soldiers. Any property of value was confiscated by the officers and the larger part of the city succumbed to a great fire that "accidentally" occured in the market district. More than 200.000 people lost their lives in the sack of Helsinki.
The scale of the mass rapes was such that it is said that Finland will never again raise arms against the Reich since future generations will have more than their normal share of German blood....
It will be long before the Finns forget this day of dread.
Infuriated at the fall of Danzig and Stettin the Kriegsmarine switched objectives from Riga to Helsinki, the Russian tsar's and English king's birthplace. Not properly defended, after a short bombardment the city fell to a marine assault. The atrocities that followed were justified,according to the German General staff, by the prolongment of the war in the east and the loss of many comrades.
No citizen, be it Slav or Finn escaped from the German wrath....
All males of military age were hanged in the town square and all underaged children were shipped to Germany to work in ammunition factories. All suitable females were used by the weary German soldiers. Any property of value was confiscated by the officers and the larger part of the city succumbed to a great fire that "accidentally" occured in the market district. More than 200.000 people lost their lives in the sack of Helsinki.
The scale of the mass rapes was such that it is said that Finland will never again raise arms against the Reich since future generations will have more than their normal share of German blood....
It will be long before the Finns forget this day of dread.
Italian Curia sends an offer of free trade pact to the USA which allows Italian and American goods to be traded freely via the atlantic.
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