What was the peculiar military relationship between Finland and Germany in WW2?
Answer
Finland fought alongside Germany against the Soviet Union in the Continuation War (1941-1944) with full operational cooperation, while officially claiming to be fighting a separate parallel war and maintaining diplomatic relations with Britain and the US
Did You Know?
Finland navigated a bizarre diplomatic tightrope: cooperating with Germany militarily against their common Soviet enemy while reassuring Western Allies they had no ideological alignment with Nazism. Finland ultimately signed a separate peace with the USSR in 1944.