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Some 4,000 Finnish evacuee children were placed in Demark during World War II. We have however only limited information about them. We know a great deal about the Finnsh children Sweden, but very little about hose oplaced in Norway. We note mothers with babies and young children retuning to Denmark after a peace treary was signed with the Soviet Union ending the Winter War (March 1940). This was shortly before the German invasion (April 1940). More Finnish children wree placed in Denmark when Finland launched the Continution War with the Sovets as part of the massibe German Babbarossa offens8ve (June 1941). The 4,000 Finnish children placed in Dnmark were a small fractions of the numbers placed in Sweden. We are not enitrly sure why the Danes took in fewer Finnish children thn the Swedes. Denmark was a smaller country thn weden and occupied by the Germans. Both could have been factars. Perhaps the Dnes were less willing than the Swedes for some reason. We just do not know. As far as we know, the Germans had nothing to do with the decision. The Finns after all were co-beligerants with the Germans in the Eastern campaign against the Soviet Union.
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