I’m getting mixed signals here. First you say Finns were not any better than the Nazis, then you say that they “weren’t a raving bunch of antisemitic genocidal maniacs” (as opposed to the Nazis, presumably).
The finns weren’t without sin. I meant it wouldn’t change that they may be guilty of war crimes. Note that there also were Wehrmacht soldiers without particularly large individual guilt.
I said these might have been some. E.g. doctors treating syphilis etc. that doesn’t mean most of all were innocent. But not everyone bears the same guilt.
I’m getting mixed signals here. First you say Finns were not any better than the Nazis, then you say that they “weren’t a raving bunch of antisemitic genocidal maniacs” (as opposed to the Nazis, presumably).
The finns weren’t without sin. I meant it wouldn’t change that they may be guilty of war crimes. Note that there also were Wehrmacht soldiers without particularly large individual guilt.
Cutting awfully close to the clean Wehrmacht myth there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht
I said these might have been some. E.g. doctors treating syphilis etc. that doesn’t mean most of all were innocent. But not everyone bears the same guilt.