Posted on 10/08/2006 11:49:45 AM PDT by Bokababe
Martti Ahtisaari and Finland’s Nazi Past
At the time of the illegal NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 when Martti Ahtisaari was the President of Finland, his government sought to commemorate and to honor Finland’s Nazi SS volunteers from the Holocaust. This offers irrefutable evidence of Ahtisaari’s direct links for support of Nazism and Nazi revisionism. If Ahtisaari had bothered to check the decisions of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals, he would have found that that court held that all Waffen SS troops were war criminals guilty of war crimes and guilty of committing crimes against humanity, namely the mass murder of Jews. Ahtisaari lacks even an elementary understanding of the Holocaust and the role of the SS in the Final Solution.
In 1999, Martti Ahtisaari’s Finnish government supported official government plans to honor and to commemorate Finland’s Nazi Waffen SS violunteers during World War II. The Finnish government plan was to mark the graves of Finnish Nazi Waffen SS volunteers who had been killed in the Soviet Union. Finland had over, 1,400 Finnish volunteers in the Nazi Waffen SS, 300 of whom were killed in the Ukraine and in the Caucasus. Finland concluded a secret agreement with Nazi Germany before the invasion of the USSR that would allow Finland to secretly send Finnish volunteers to Heinrich Himmler’s Waffen SS forces. Himmler formed a Finnish Waffen SS Volunteer Battalion from these Finnish troops called “Nordost”. This Finnish Battalion was attached to the “Nordland” Waffen SS Regiment of the 5th SS Division “Wiking”, one of the most brutal and fanatical Nazi SS Divisions of World War II, commanded by Felix Steiner.
Finnish Nazi SS troops formed the vanguard and spearheaded the German Wehrmacht assault against the Stalingrad and Caucasus regions in 1942 and advanced to the Grozny oil fields in Chechnya. This was the farthest Nazi advance into the Soviet Union by the Axis, spearheaded by Finnish Nazi Waffen SS volunteers. It is important to remember that the Finnish government of Risto Ryti sent the Finnish Nazi SS volunteers. There was government action on the part of Finland. Ryti should have been prosecuted for war crimes and for genocide. But he never was. Finland’s Nazi past and role in the Holocaust was blurred and obscured by Finnish propaganda.
The memorial would consist of a small monument or plaque erected by Ahtisaari’s Finnish government at a burial site in southern Ukraine where the remains of 150 Finnish Nazi Waffen SS volunteers are buried. Finns were initially considered non-Aryans because they belonged to the Finno-Ugric language group, not regarded as Indo-European under Nazi racist policy. Nevertheless, Himmler accepted Finns into the elite, racially pure, Waffen SS, as belonging to the Nordic racial stock and regarded Finns as among his best SS troops.
Finland’s Jewish groups protested to President Martti Ahtisaari because his government was subsidizing or financing the project. Gideon Bolotowsky, a Finnish Jewish leader, accused Ahtisaari of financing Nazism. Bolotowsky told Reuters: “They (the government) are giving money to a Nazi cause. They did not fight for Finland. …It is a mistake of the government.”
What is remarkable is that Ahtisaari’s government defended this honoring of Finnish Nazi SS war criminals. In a May 10, 1999 Reuters news story, it was reported:
“Officials defended the plan to commemorate the SS men, saying it would be a gesture of remembrance rather than approval.
‘All governments erect monuments or plaques to their war dead,’ said Heikki Hakala, executive director of the Society for Remembrance of the War Dead. ‘This (momument) would be to honour the fallen soldiers, not for any particular deed…’
An official at the ministry of education, which donated 500,000 markka ($91,000) to the society, said the government saw nothing wrong with the plan as there was no evidence the Finnish SS battalion was involved in any Nazi attrocities.”
In 1958, the Finnish government completely exonerated the Nazi SS volunteers and gave them full “combatant rights”.
Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement: “Just when the German government is applying legislation to strip such volunteers of their war pensions, Finland is acting to effectively vindicate Nazi units associated with war crimes and thus to balances the Holocaust by equaling perpetrators and victims.'’
Samuels asked Martti Ahtisaari to use his influence with the government to “desist from this act of historical revisionism.'’
Martti Ahtisaari and his governemtn defended the plan: “Officials defend the plan to commemorate the SS men, saying it would be a gesture of remembrance rather than approval.”
Samuels told Reuters that he had written to President Martti Ahtisaari that honoring Finnish Nazi SS volunteers would “betray the image of Finnish neutrality as much as it (would) offend the honor of the victims of Hitlerism.'’
The Paris-based European Jewish Congress said in a statement that Ahtisaari’s commemoration of the Finnish Nazi SS war criminals “is an offence to all victims of the Nazis and jeopardizes the educational objectives of the European Union member countries to combat racism and anti-Semitism.”
The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal held all Waffen SS members to be guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Why doesn’t Ahtisaari know this? Is he that ignorant? The Finnish Nazi SS volunteers enabled Hitler to murder Jews, Russians, Roma, and Sinti. Didn’t the Finnish leaders know about the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler? Didn’t they know about Kristallnacht in 1938 or the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935? Didn’t they know what Hitler intended to do with the Jews in the Soviet Union? Didn’t the Finnish government know about Hitler’s concept of lebensraum, under which he planned to exterminate the Russian population and settle Russia with ethnic Germans? Of course, Martti Ahtisaari doesn’t know about any of this?
If this doesn’t finally discredit the ICG and put the last nail in its coffin, nothing will. Fact is stranger than fiction. You could never make this up.
Martti Ahtisaari, as President of Finland, sought to honor and commemorate Finnish Nazi SS war criminals, war criminals held guilty by the Nuremberg Tribunal of committing crimes against humanity and of participation in the Final Solution, the genocide of European Jews. This supporter and financier of Nazi war criminals and of genocide is deciding the future status of Kosovo? The irony is unbelievable.
Finland was NOT Nazi during WWII, but was caught between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and trying to survive as an independent democratic nation. They did very well at that, all things considered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim
As at least some Freepers know, I am a great admirer of the Finnish school of Luther research, and its efforts in uncovering the Orthodox roots of Lutheranism, and in dialogue between Lutherans and Orthodox. I also admire the WWII Finnish leader Mannerheim.
However, Martti Ahtisaari is a pipsqueak New World Order international-fascist front man, of the order of Javier Solana of Spain, James Rubin (US), Jamie Shea (UK) and the various UN/EU procurators of "Bosnia" and Kosovo. He in no way deserves to be associated with the noble Finns I mentioned above, but only with other NWO Eurotrash!
And poor Finland, despite its wonderful Lutheran and Orthodox heritage, is now just another post-Christian Euro country mainly known for its manufacture of mobile phones. It needs to recover its Christian faith, the sooner, the better. At least (unlike several other Euro countries further west) it does have people within its borders who (by the help of God) can help it with this recovery.
Finnish is part of the Finno-Ugrian group of their Uralic language family. Estonian and Magyar (Hungarian) are its best known cousins.
"........where Slobo sent about a million Kovovars on the road out."
Hmmmm. Let me guess. You just made that number up didn't you?
And if not, care to show from the ICTY trial against Milosevic where that number came from?
You might not like it, but that is the the ball park number. Sue me.
It should be pointed out that Mannerheim, Finland's leader, warned the Third Reich about trying to implement their antisemitic policies in Finland.
I don't refer to him as "Hop-ultralite" for nuthin'.
"re-elect Vojislav Seselj, a living and breathing war criminal, as their leader."
***** Uh, m'kay, and I suppose Ceku, Ramush and Thaqi are part of a Muslim Choir for Allah? Mafia kingpins who have murdered their way from dirty nosed simple criminals to war criminals, murdering Albanians who are witnesses against them, and hundreds of innocent Serbs since 1999. I would say, three to one is a bit one sided.
Oh, by the way, I finished that research to the tune of 19 pages.......it's a scary thing about Pearl Harbor. I almost wish I hadn't of done the research.
Your answer is correct...as I discovered this weekend. However, they still did the Nazi thing. They dont' need to be honored.
Just keep in mind, the Albanians from kosovo formed their own Nazi SS group under Nazi mentorship. They murdered thousands of Serbs, Jews etc...the Serbs were on our side and aided American flyers. The BS propaganda Albanians have produced, ie. the Serb cutting the throat of an unidentified boy poster. The picture was purposely mislabled as a Serb soldier murdering an Unknown Albanian boy. In reality, it was a staged photo by the Serb soldier as a sick joke for personal use. The "boy" was his nephew and the "blood" was ketchup. The photo was found in 1999, after Albanians took over the serb's house and turned it around as a picture of an Albanians being murdered. There are many more examples.
Stop with the insults and give facts..........to counter.
"The Croats and Albanians joined with the Nazis to destroy Jews, Gypsies and Serbians."
Exactly.....in WWII, they called the Albanian SS group the Skenderburg Division. Ironically, it's the same name they had for the group of Albanians NLA fighters north of Skopje, in 2001 to 2002 during the Macedonian conflict and uprising. This followed the emergence and terrorist activities of the UCPMB. We (USA) had advisors on both sides. (Macedonian forces and NLA rebel groups)...
May I interject a point, it's like the USA giving up New Mexico to Mexico just because New Mexico, if it had a majority of Mexicans decided to annex New Mexico, form their own army and government, and murdered many of the non-mexicans there.......Exactly the same thing. Also, the Serbs were there first and it holds dear to being their Jerusulem with all the Churches, grave yards, history, and ancestors going back centuries past Albanians. In South Serbia they've had no problems the entire time. In one case, the Albanians in South Serbia threatened Shifket Misliu, (UCPMB Commander) with his life if ever came back over to recruit and start trouble in the Presevo Valley during 1999 to 2001....timeframe.
Our entrance into Kosovo was made under false pretense to the tune of 10,000 murdered K-Albanians which was a total fabrication by the Clinton Administration. There must be something wrong if they have to fabricate justifications.
You are right about Serbia's history as an ally of the West and a victim of neighbors in World War II. It is a tragedy that fifty years later, Slobodan Milosevic destroyed Serbia's reputation and moral values and forced America to intervene in order to stop a humanitarian catastrophe. The people of Serbia deserved better than to have that criminal drag their name through the mud of Kosovo.
yes sir.....:) However, they are certainly heading to the 1948 dream of the balli Kombetar movement, for a Greater Albania. The Kosovoar Albanians don't really want this, however, they have no say so. The Mafia leadership with is dominate even over NATO and the US, will want it to ensure a criminal empire called Greater Albania. The Serbs will be fair game and the attacks in Macedonia and Southern Presevo will begin. This has been the promise of world powers to keep that carrot of Greater Albania alive and keeping them friendly to the one holding that power. Now, the independent Kosovo may very well be delayed and may not happen at all. This is what i warned folks about back then, 1999-2004....that the Islamic Fundies will be allowed to start terrorist actions of the International community pisses them off......
Kosovo s independence to create dangerous precedent- aide
07.10.2006, 07.00
BAD BOLL, Germany, October 7 (Itar-Tass) -- If Kosovo’s independence is recognised despite Serbia’s will, this will create a “very negative” precedent in international relations, Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said.
“Kosovo is a severe challenge to the international community and a very important acid test for the wisdom of the world community. If Kosovo’ s independence is recognised despite Serbia’s will, this will create a very negative precedent in international relations,” Yastrzhembsky said at the conference “Russia and Germany” Hopes and Misunderstandings” on Friday.
http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10864823&PageNum=0
Yes....don't forget that the CIA recruited Milosevic during the late 80's while he was in New York. He was understuding to be a banker. The CIA turned him around to be a politician. He succeeded in becoming a president. Now, I've heard different tales...but, I've heard that the Serbian nationalist got to Milosevic which sounds about right, and turned him around to be a nationalist. Or, he was following orders to respond heavily handed when the Bosnian trouble started. Either way, he screwed up for the Serbian people. However, much of the Serbs attrocities were highly exaggerated and some were entirely fabricated to justify our Illegal entrance into the Balkans. The 8,000 Muslims massacred....exaggerated number, and most of those killed were Jihaders....that had been cutting off heads.....the others from being at the wrong place at the wrong time.... Never any "rape camps"....fabricated. Rapes? Yes, from both sides.
That's funny , getoffmylawn.
Finland refused to cooperate with the Nazis in the persecution of Jews. Desirous of their pseudo allies cooperation in the war against Russia, Finland was never pressed on the issue, so Jews maintained their rights throughout the war. Some fled to Sweden, just in case, however the Jewish population wasn't very large.
The SS contained Swedish volunteers also. There were also reports of a Bengal Unit made up of volunteers from India, and a British unit too. The last Battles, i.e."Berlin and Budapest " were fought to the last man by SS units of Frenchman, Belgians, Danes, Norwegians and Dutch volunteers who joined to fight the Bolsheviks. They were combat arms soldiers, not members of the SD formations that ran the concentration camps. For the most part they were the fire brigades of the German war machine. They were the best equipped, best trained and had the most fighting spirit compared to the rest of the non SS units. We should not judge them solely on the activities of the SD. They were the best fighting units of the European Theater, too bad they were fighting for the wrong cause.
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