Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aunesluoma, Juhana
• Marianne Stecher-Hansen
• Stecher-Hansen, Marianne

Titel

Finland in World War II: Tragedy, Survival, and Good Wars

Ist Teil von

• Nordic War Stories, 2021, Vol.7, p.21-34

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To understand the centrality of the memory of World War II in Finland, one needs to do no more than open a television set on the country’s Independence Day, 6 December. After the usual afternoon showing of Edwin Laine’s classic 1950s film The Unknown Soldier, an adaptation of Väinö Linna’s epic war novel, on the national broadcasting company YLE’s main channel, the nation turns its gaze to the reception in the President’s Palace in Helsinki. The reception is a peculiar mixture of formal state function and glittery ball, hosting close to two thousand invited guests dressed in evening gowns, white