"Our honor means loyalty" - with this slogan the soldiers of the Waffen-SS go to war in 1939. They think of themselves as more than just soldiers. They are warriors, self-proclaimed elite ...

in the Finnish military reserves. Given his outstanding capabilities, Lauri Törni was sent to Austria for training with the Waffen-SS. After spending seven weeks with the combat unit during the ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than twenty ...

A 12-year-old student opened fire at a lower secondary school in southern Finland Tuesday morning, killing one fellow student and seriously wounding two others, police said. All three victims were ...

Tom of Finland, a moniker of Touko Laaksonen, was a Finnish illustrator best known for his distinctively stylized homoerotic drawings. An influential aesthetic force in late 20th-century gay culture, ...

A 12-year-old suspect was arrested in Finland on Tuesday morning after a shooting at a primary school left one student dead and two other 12-year-olds wounded. Police responded to the shooting at ...

Finland was in mourning after the 12-year-old was alleged to have arrived at Viertola school in Vantaa, a city north of the capital, Helsinki, armed with a handgun on Tuesday morning. State ...

The Finnish are well known for their minimalist, no-frills approach to life, which is reflected in their ever-present attention to design in architecture, fashion, furniture, transportation ...

Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums.

April 30 (Reuters) - The SAK trade union association said on April 4 that Finnish labour unions would suspend a four-week strike which began on March 11. The strikes have disrupted Finland's ports ...