Finnish Soldiers during the Continuation War, 1942. The Soldiers wearing steel helmets of German origin and are armed with an Mosin Nagant Rifle and an Model 1935 AT-Rifle. The AT-Rifle is of polish origin. The Germans captured many of these Weapons in 1939 and gave them to their Allies like Finland
General Helmut Weidling (left) was the last commander of the Berlin defense district. He surrendered on 2-May-1945 to the Russians with members of his staff. Weidling was convicted of war crimes for atrocities by his troops in Russia and imprisoned. He died of a heart attack in 1955 in a KGB prison.
