Suomi Saksalaisin Silmin, 1933-1939

This book examines perceptions of Finland from German diplomatic and newspaper sources, from Hitler's accession in 1933 to the outbreak of the Winter War in 1939. In this respect, it stands as something of a prequel to Peltovuori's earlier Sankarikanssa ja Kavaltajat (2000; rev. ante, cxvi [2001], 760–1). As demonstrated in this earlier work, Finland was perceived by Hitler as a potentially useful ally, and thus the ‘guidance’ given to the press during his Chancellorship was to portray the Finns as having long-established links with Germany. Suomi Saksalaisin Silmin demonstrates that these perceptions did have some basis in truth—the German interest in Finnish sporting and cultural icons, for example, is a strong and recurrent theme in the book—but the author also succeeds in distinguishing clearly between the propagandist rhetoric of the early years of the Third Reich and the pre-existing sense of cultural kinship between Finland and Germany. The

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