Continuation War
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The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration o
Finnish soldiers at the VT-line of fortifications during the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June 1944
Finnish flags at half-mast in Helsinki on 13 March 1940 after the Moscow Peace Treaty became public
Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg, pictured in 2017. During the Winter and Continuation Wars, Leningrad, as it was then known, was of strategic importance to both sides.
Finnish, German and Soviet military formations at the start of the Continuation War in June and July 1941
Karl Lennart Oesch
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Karl Lennart Oesch was one of Finland's leading generals during World War II. He served as Chief of the General Staff of the Finnish Defence Forces from 1930 to 1940 and again in 1944, and commanded m
Lennart Oesch in 1918
Oesch in Vyborg in 1941.
Soviet division commander General Vladimir Kirpichnikov, a prisoner of war, lights a cigarette for Oesch in 1941.