Finnish volunteers did fight with the Axis armies against the USSR, so it's not all that unfair to class them broadly as Axis, one of the four independent nations besides Italy, Japan and Germany-Austria to do so (with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria).
However Lucy Davidowicz's The War Against the Jews 1933-1945 and Wikipedia's articles on the "Continuation War" and the "History of the Jews in Finland" agree that there was no Finnish participation or cooperation in the Holocaust; when Himmler visited Helsinki in the summer of 1942, the Finns told him they had no Jewish Problem. Several hundred of the 2,300 Jews in Finland served in their country's army against the Red Army and with the Axis armies; among other curiosities, this led to three Jews winning, but declining, the Iron Cross, a Finnish army field synagogue behind Axis lines and Jewish medical officers treating Axis wounded. After eight non-Finnish Jewish refugees to Finland had been handed over to the Gestapo, there was sufficient protest by religious leaders and Social Democratic members of the wartime coalition government to prevent any repeat. Finland's treatment of the Jews, according to Wikipedia's articles, wasn't perfect (some refugees were sent to Finnish camps and their position as Communist political commissars doomed some Jewish Soviet POW's swapped with the Germans for Finnish POW's) but it can't be considered collaboration or connivance with the Holocaust. |
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