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By 1943 the Finnish government would have known about the massive bombings of German cities and would have expected an allied landing somewhere on the western front. Maybe they thought that Denmark is no more a safe zone for the children, and that at least having them back in Finland would have the Finns in position to try to safeguard them, instead of any authority in Denmark, an area that could have become a battlezone like France and the Low countries after the allied landings.