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Old 31st May 2005, 08:14
Peter Spoden Peter Spoden is offline
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Re: Attention to all Finns! Mr Spoden & Mr Scheer in Finland

hello our friends in Finland,

Klaus and I were very impressed by the hospitality and friendship the Finns gave us. Guenther Rall was lecturing before in Finland and had told us already.
The Finns had not forgotten that German troops under von der Goltz helped Mannerheim after WW I to reach their independence.
They remembered us about the German flyers in the Kohlmey group in 1944:

http://www.pelastamalmi.org/en/news/mass_offensive.html

But mostly Klaus and I were touched and moved when young Finns after the lectures came to us and thanked us that we had risked our young lives for protection of their hometown Helsinki against Sowjet nightbombers.

Thank you Finns Klaus and Peter
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