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".
    pic33 Wounded Finns somewhere in Caucasus in 1942.
    pic34 Finns in SS-Standortlazarett, Vienna, Austria. Nurse on the left is a Finn, Anita Veneskoski.
      
     
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