The Finnish Press and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

Abstract

Finland’s response to the liberation of the concentration camps was considerably different from the British and Swedish responses; the Finnish press wrote far less about the liberations than their British and Swedish counterparts; the event hardly sparked any public discussions in Finland; and there was almost no pictorial record of the atrocities to accompany the news. The purpose of this chapter is twofold: first, to establish what the Finnish press wrote about the liberation of the camps — to investigate what type of discourses the Finnish press subscribed to; and second, to analyse why they wrote in the way they did — to understand why the news was framed in certain ways.KeywordsConcentration CampSlave LabourerPictorial RecordParliamentary DelegationWinter ClothesThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.