Radio War Nerd EP #639 — Soviet-Finnish Wars, Pt. 4: Finland's Nazi Crimes + Gulf Oil Flows, feat. Annibale (Patreon)

Guest: AnnibaleRecorded: September 30, 2026

In our final episode of our series on the Soviet-Finnish Wars (1939-40, 1941-5), Annibale shines a light on Finland's Nazi crimes carried out as Nazi Germany's allies: deadly concentration camps for non-Finns, Finnish Waffen SS, and the little-known Finnish Einsatzkommando that murdered non-Finnish Jews and Communists.

First - We discuss Gulf oil export claims vs realitiesAt 36:30 - Annibale concludes our Soviet-Finnish Wars series

Maps (from Finland's War of Choice by Henrik O. Lunde)*Soviet offensive on the Karelian isthmus, June 1944

*Soviet offensive in East Karelia, June 1944

*Axis allies (1942), left to right: Carl Mannerheim, the father of modern Finland; Adolph Hitler; Risto Ryti, Finland's president and co-signer of the Ryti-Ribbentrop Pact

*Finnish military's not-Nazi swastika

*For Annibale's bibliography on this series, see episode 630

Further listening*RWN 630 - Soviet Finnish Wars, Pt. 1: Introduction*RWN 632 - Soviet Finnish Wars, Pt. 2: The Winter War*RWN 634 - Soviet Finnish Wars, Pt. 3: The Finland-Nazi Invasion & Siege of Leningrad*Annibale's Operation Barbarossa Series

Total time: 1:55:47Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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