Casualties
A
total of 256 Finns serving in "Wiking" Division were killed in action and
almost all had been wounded - many of them more than once. The killed soldiers
were buried in the field. The wounded were treated in tens of hospitals
all over the German held Europe.
One not
too often told detail is that also volunteer Finnish nurses worked in Germany
during the war. Two Finnish nurses worked in the "Wiking's" field hospital
and a couple of volunteer Finnish nurses worked in SS-Lazarett in Vienna,
where they treated "their own boys". |
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Wounded
Finns somewhere in Caucasus in 1942. |
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Finns
in SS-Standortlazarett, Vienna, Austria. Nurse on the left is a Finn, Anita
Veneskoski. |
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