The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS was a motorized infantry battalion of the German Waffen-SS. It was formed from Finnish volunteers and fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. For most of its existence it was attached to SS-Regiment Nordland of the SS Division Wiking. The battalion participated in the Battle of the Caucasus in mid-1942 and the subsequent Third Battle of Kharkov in early 1943, after the German defeat during the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 forced the

Finnish soldiers hit the enemy's vital parts. Trench warfare. -The Soviet-Finnish War | Movie Insight