WW2 Finland Propaganda Collection: Finland fought three wars — first against the USSR (Winter War – 1939-1940, then alongside Germany (Continuation War 1941-1945, and finally against Germany (Lapland War 1944-1945) — but managed to stay independent, unlike most countries caught between the great powers. (ChatGPT)
WW2 Finland Propaganda Posters:
Finnish Material:
1939 The Enemy Is Listening! Chatters Can Unknowingly Betray Their Fatherland
1939 The Traitor’s Reward Is Death
1939 A Spy Is Haunting You Too. A Spy Is Directing Bombs At Your Home
1939 Watch out for the Spies. The Spies Show the Bombers the Way
1941 You belong to the home front, suppress every hearsay – gossip – rumor
1941 Strengthen the front here at home – Build dams for the rumors!
1941 Victory
1941 Mobilization declared
1941 ‘When Faces Become Like This, That’s the Eastern Border’
1942 The Finnish People on behalf of Ingria
1942 Rymy-Eetu Russkies horror
Other Countries Supporting Finland:
1939 Finland’s cause is ours! For a bigger fight, join the Volunteer Corps (Sweden)
1939 It’s About Us, Join the Volunteer Corps (Sweden)
1939 A Fold Is In Danger. You Can Help. The National Collection For Finland (Sweden)
1939 With Finland for Sweden. Register in the Swedish Volunteer Corps (Sweden)
1939 Help our Finnish brothers! (Hungary)
1939 At It Again!
1939 Blow Upon Blow. The Memphis Commercial Appeal’
1939 ‘Finns Menace Soviet Russia.’ The Des Moines Register
1939 Stalin vs Finland Boxing Ring
1939 The Great World Menace, The Philadelphia Inquirer
1939 The Old Story ‘You gave me insuferable provocation. When I wanted to rob you I found you had locked the door’ Punch cartoon
1939 Who Aids. Punch cartoon
1940 Finland’s Cause Is Yours – join the Volunteer Corps! (Sweden)
1940 Fighting Funds for Finland inc. Speed Means Life For Finland (USA)
1940 Finland, Some are free in life – others only free in death…
1940 Freedom. Finland, Field of Honor! (Switzerland)
1940 in Österled. A Book Film About the Swedish Volunteer Corps
1940 To Arms Against Tyranny! The Finland Fund (UK)
1940 The First Down Payment. Los Angeles Times
1940 Honour Among Thieves (Stalin is said to have asked for German help) Punch cartoon
1941 Europe’s Fight Against Bolshevism III. Finland’s Struggle for Freedom (Germany)
Finnish Fliers Targeting Soviets:
1939-40 White Death. You can’t fight this enemy – the frost. You can’t see it, but it’s all around you
1939-40 The Finns will generously pay you for weapons that you bring with you
1939-40 This fighter killed battalion comissar
1939-40 Nobody will help anyone. End this madness. Surrender
1940 A politruk (political commissar) is a hero of the Union, and you have an empty belly
1940 A Politruk (Political Commissar) is worse than the enemy. He shoots you in the back!
1940 Through captivity – to freedom!. With the Finns it is warm and satisfying!
1940 Red Army Soldier! Look at yourself, how you are dressed, and think about for whom and what you are dying!
1940 The only one who won from this war is death. Down with the war, Down with the warmongers
1940 Where there is a Politruk, there is death!
1940 We offer you 10.000 Dollars And In Addition Free Passage Abroad to any country, but with the condition that you make careful landing in Finland and Surrender With The Plane
1942 What Do You Do In Your Free Time? Pass
1942 Comrade Red Army Soldier! Don’t stay and wait for your turn to die!
1942 Comrade Red Army Soldier! The Carefree Life Of Prisoners In Finland
German Fliers Targeting Soviets:
1941 Yakov Stalin From the Germans! Look, officers and Red Army soldiers of the Workers and Peasants’ Soviet Army
1942 Your Work In Germany is a devastating blow to Bolshevism!
1942 Germany is waiting for you!
1942 What We Saw In Germany. Captured Red Army Soldiers Tell…
1942 This is how Prisoners Of War live. The population of the regions liberated from the Bolsheviks is happy working on restoration
1942 Russian workers are treated like slaves
1942 What will happen after?
1942 Who is Hitler?
1942 Adolf Hitler
1942 This is what your commissars are driving you to on Stalin’s orders.. and this is what awaits you if you take your destiny into your own hands!
1942 Soldiers! Commanders! Stop shedding your Russian blood for Jewish bug-infested places!
1942 Choose between death and life! Think about your family! Stop shooting and come over to us!
1943 The Power Of Stalin
Soviet Fliers Targeting Finns:
1939-40 famine. Mannerheim’s deputy behind the front
1939-40 Finnish soldier! The government that sent you to the front has deprived your children of home warmth and food.
1939-40 Finnish soldier! While you are at war… the ministers are packing..
1939 Mannerheim – Executioner of the Finnish People
1939 The Order of the Russian Emperor Nikolai the Bloody…. Executioner Mannerheim
1940 Executioner Mannerheim
1941-42 Finnish soldier! This is how the executioner Hitler, equipped with Ryti and Mannerheim, ‘stands guarding’ Finland’s independence!
1941-44 Enough of killing Finnish men!
1941-44 Finnish Army Soldiers! Throw the Fascist Militiamen Off Your Shoulders
1941-44 Finnish Man! Will You Die for Hitler’s Slave Command?
1941-44 Finnish soldiers and officers! Your government is selling you to Hitler as cannon fodder. Stop the war that is killing the Finnish people.
1941-44 The swindlers will be avenged!
1941-45 The consequences of German policy are visible. The country faces the horrors of the famine winter.
1941 We, the People of Hanko, Will Beat You Everywhere in the Same Way We Beat You Near Hanko
1942 Father come home!
1942 – When there is not enough cannon fodder in Germany, then, sir, drink the blood of Finnish men!
1942 Restaurant Finland
1942 You Are Expected Home, But Mannerheim’s Victims Will Never Return
1942 Soldiers and Officers of the Finnish Army! Stop Pouring Out Blood for Hitler’s Interests. Throw Fascists Out of Your Country!
1943 Deutsche Reiscport. Tunisia urgent to Adolf Hitler. Tunis Surrendered…
1943 Finnish soldier! Hitler is digging a grave just for you
Soviet Fliers Targeting Germans:
1941 I am leading you towards glorious times!
1941-45 Hermann Göring Works
1941-45 One way or another. Choose!
1942 Instead of Hitler’s Final Victory- Obituaries and Hospital Trains
1942 German women! Hitler promised the German people peace, but gave them only endless war
1942 Comradeship in Love
1942 Comradeship in Love
1942 Why, Comrade. Why All This
1942 Front-Illustrated Magazine for the German Soldier. Eastern Front, Winter 1942
1942. That’s what your Eastern Front winter of 1941 was like. It will get even worse in 1942.
1942 For the tenth time… Soldier, don’t forget. You can only save yourself by surrendering!
1943 Front-line illustrated magazine for German soldiers. Germany in the Ring of Fire
1943 The corrupter of the people Hitler conjured up the horrors of the air war over Germany
1943 The blows against Germany from the east merge with the blows from the west
1943 Front-line illustrated magazine for the German soldier. What next?
1943 What next?
1943 You want to know what happens next
Soviet Material:
1939 Mister Colonel, we have lost our direction. How do we go. towards the star – No, away from the star!
1939 People’s government of Finland is coming. The ship of Cajander-Tanner rats is sinking
1939 The dangerous act of the Finnish premier. his finances are flimsy
1939-40 Master Of The Air. Master Of The Whole World!
1940 Defense Of The Socialist Motherland is the most sacred duty of a soldier of the invincible Red Army
1940 Combat Sheet
1940 A bayonet and a Grenade are the Best Helpers in a night battle
1940 The White Finn hides in the forests. Apparently, life is not easy. Oh, how afraid, how afraid the White One is of the red bayonet!
1940 Breaching the Mannerheim Line, the surrender of the Finns
1940 Defeated on the Mannerheim Line in 1940
1941 The fascist dog — Suojeluskunta growls, But we will deal with him quickly!..
1941 Young patriots! The Motherland calls you to fight the brutal fascist bandits! Forward to defeat the enemy! Forward for our victory!
1943 Finland is quiet and harmless country!
1944 Death To German – Finnish Invaders
1944 Death to the Finnish Butchers!
1944 Leningrad. With the cry, ‘Death to the German-Finnish invaders!’, the Red Army is advancing on the Karelian Isthmus
1944 Of all the outright lackeys, of all the German dog-packs, fascist stooges of Europe, the Finn is the greediest dog and thief!
1944 Two Faces
1944 We Do Not Forgive German-Finnish Bandits!
1944 On the offensive of the Red Army against the Finns in Karelia in 1944
German Propaganda:
1941 Pictures of the War Against Soviet Russia 895,000 Prisoners!
War Time Magazines:
1939-12-25 Newsweek. Fighting Finns of the Mannerheim Line
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