Secret Photos From A Finnish Defence Forces’ Safe

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Sixty years on, there are no grounds to withhold images kept in a Finnish Defence Forces’ safe. The dull-looking cardboard box that contains three envelopes is full of horrific images from the Winter War (1939-40) and the Continuation War (1941-44). The box has been stored along with numerous plastic folders in a tall safe at the Finnish Defence Forces picture archives, in the Santahamina garrison in Helsinki.
 
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The first envelope contains pictures of a village in Finnish Lapland that was destroyed by Soviet partisans who crossed the border.

 
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The half-naked bodies of Finnish women and children lie strewn on the ground, their corpses partly decomposed. The body of a fair-haired boy of around five years of age is lifted onto the flat bed of a truck. A Finnish soldier holds the burnt and blackened corpse of an infant in his arms.
 
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