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Old 09-20-16, 09:57 AM   #195
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Originally Posted by Dowly View Post
17 September 1941

Over 70 men from a penal Battalion (dubbed "Pärmi's Battalion") defect to the enemy side during fighting in Vuohtjärvi.
That's a way to get rid of criminals I wonder how many of the defectors died in the prison camps.
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