One of those Finns, medic Leo Skurnik, said that he was gonna wipe his ass with the Iron Cross
EnchantingGirl2 on
A field synagogue right next to a Nazi camp is the ultimate historical ‘weird flex, but okay’.
Parzival_2k7 on
Wait they really did that? How did the Nazis even try to justify that with their genocide?? “Yeah all jews are bad and evil except these few who deserve the highest military honour in Germany”??
Tall_Pressure7042 on
Mannerheim (ironically of German ancestry) knew so wel Nazism and he disdained it. He was also a traditional officer by his own merits, having served in Tsarist Army, so he was even less fond of radical Nazism.
Chayaneg on
Did not know that! That is wild strech of ideology, in a face of need!
PeasantLich on
The Nazis also granted Iron Cross to a Jewish Finnish nurse Dina Poljakoff who was in the auxiliary women’s army corp Lotta Svärd with her cousin. The Jewish cousins were really popular among the German men, they both saved the love letters they got from German soldiers they treated. Dina got nominated for the iron cross probably just because the Germans really liked her so she stood out among the army nurses.
Poljakoff did not refuse the award, but according to her she went to the award ceremony to check list of the awardees just to see if they really were going to give it to her, and claims that she left before the awards were actually given.
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One of those Finns, medic Leo Skurnik, said that he was gonna wipe his ass with the Iron Cross
A field synagogue right next to a Nazi camp is the ultimate historical ‘weird flex, but okay’.
Wait they really did that? How did the Nazis even try to justify that with their genocide?? “Yeah all jews are bad and evil except these few who deserve the highest military honour in Germany”??
Mannerheim (ironically of German ancestry) knew so wel Nazism and he disdained it. He was also a traditional officer by his own merits, having served in Tsarist Army, so he was even less fond of radical Nazism.
Did not know that! That is wild strech of ideology, in a face of need!
The Nazis also granted Iron Cross to a Jewish Finnish nurse Dina Poljakoff who was in the auxiliary women’s army corp Lotta Svärd with her cousin. The Jewish cousins were really popular among the German men, they both saved the love letters they got from German soldiers they treated. Dina got nominated for the iron cross probably just because the Germans really liked her so she stood out among the army nurses.
Poljakoff did not refuse the award, but according to her she went to the award ceremony to check list of the awardees just to see if they really were going to give it to her, and claims that she left before the awards were actually given.