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    The war-responsibility trials in Finland (Finnish: Sotasyyllisyysoikeudenkäynti, Swedish: Krigsansvarighetsprocessen) were trials of the Finnish wartime...
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    Crime of aggression (category Wars by type)
    (2013). "The Finnish War-Responsibility Trial in 1945–6: The Limits of Ad Hoc Criminal Justice?". The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials. Oxford University...
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  • Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials Bulgarian People's Tribunals; Yugoslav People's Tribunals War-responsibility trials in Finland Czechoslovak...
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    definition was first used by Finland to prosecute the political leadership in the war-responsibility trials in Finland. The principles were later known...
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    Helsinki County Prison (category Prisons in Finland)
    opportunity to escape. At the end of the war, some well known convicts from the War-responsibility trials in Finland were kept in the prison, including President...
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    Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II....
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  • conflict. The trial of Peter von Hagenbach by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire in 1474, was the first "international" war crimes trials and also...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak...
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    data). Finland was also required to pay out a large amount of war reparations to the Soviet Union and to formally acknowledge partial responsibility for...
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    Risto Ryti (category Finnish people of World War II)
    been stopped. After the war, Ryti was the main defendant in the Finnish war-responsibility trials (1945–1946), which resulted in his conviction for crimes...
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  • Ravensbrück trials of the camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. War-responsibility trials in Finland – a series of trials of the Finnish leadership...
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    to trial or not sentenced. The Soviet Union and Chinese Communist forces also held trials of Japanese war criminals. The Khabarovsk War Crime Trials held...
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  • Weapons Cache Case (category Military history of Finland during World War II)
    operated in Finland, but the weapons cache case is not thought to be connected.) Operation Stella Polaris Stay-behind War-responsibility trials in Finland Lukkari...
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  • Driftwood theory (category Finland in World War II)
    aggression. The first arguments that Finland drifted into the Continuation War were made for the war responsibility trials in 1945 by the Hornborg committee...
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  • Rising Finland was a Finnish political association founded on October 5, 1940. It aimed to "nurture the Spirit of the Winter War", promote the idea of...
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    its actions in 1937–45 liable to charges of crimes against peace, a charge that was introduced at the Tokyo Trials to prosecute "Class A" war criminals...
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    in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during the period of World War...
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    A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally...
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  • discrimination in their youth as well. During the wartime, there were about 69,700 Soviet POWs in Finland, of which 5,700 were taken in the Winter War (1939–40)...
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  • Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland). The treaty of peace with Romania obliged the country to apprehend and bring to trial people accused of "war crimes and crimes...
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    Antti Kukkonen (category Finnish people of World War II)
    February 1962). Kukkonen was sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment in the war-responsibility trials in Finland. He was released in October 1947. [1] v t e...
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    Second World War, Finland fought three wars: the Winter War, the Continuation War and the Lapland War. According to the ceasefire agreement, in addition to...
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  • 2021 a trial for Gibril Massaquoi, charged with murder, aggravated war crimes and aggravated crimes against humanity in Liberia, started in Finland, with...
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    Cold War and the Treaty of 1948 from the Library of Congress (the Country Studies) Ekholm, Kai (2001). "Political Censorship in Finnish Libraries in 1944–1946"...
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    Aarne Kauhanen (category Finnish people of World War II)
    was a Finnish officer of the Central Detective Police (EK) and its successor, the State Police (ValPo), with special responsibility for aliens in the 1930s...
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    Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 (category 1947 in Finland)
    Bulgaria, and Finland, which had switched sides and declared war on Germany during the war. They were allowed to fully resume their responsibilities as sovereign...
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  • At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials. In Europe, these tribunals...
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  • Nuremberg Trials, presided over by an Allied court; the first international tribunal of its kind. Other trials were conducted in the countries in which the...
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    Justice. The twelve US trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" or, more formally, as the "Trials of War Criminals before the...
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  • Winter War covers the period before the outbreak of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union (1939–1940), which stretches from the Finnish Declaration...
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