English Translation

E4 6 III. Relationship with Germany, mood-wise, the relationship of the Finnish people with Germany is currently extremely bad. It will not even be possible to speak of German hostility par excellence, but rather of a very strong feeling of disappointment and indignation, which is certainly subjectively genuine among the population and the pro-German-oriented part of the political world as well as among the poor. Germany was not so much accused that Finland did not support it, but rather that the Finnish-Russian war had only become possible through Germany's attitude. The Soviet Union would never have dared to attack Finland if it had not given Germany the freedom to expand to the West under the principles it had advocated for many years. Moreover, in Ber-lin there is still a benevolent attitude towards Russian action, as the press coverage of the Finnish war alone shows. In this context, it is rightly pointed out that the German press only apparently objectively reports on the warring events in Finland, but in reality endeavours to falsify the situation in favour of the Soviet Union. The extent to which the equation between Germans and Russians within the Finnish population has already progressed, is a good example of the repeated and believed demands about the deployment of German officers and soldiers on the Finnish-Russian front. These rumors get their special food by greatly underestimating the Russian poor in Finland. But if the performance of the Russians are somewhere above the usual bad average, there is only one explanation: "These were the Germans", Thus the shooting of Viborg by a Russian long-distance gun was claimed even in serious army circles, the shooting must -10 -