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April 30-U.S.S.R. reports German troops in Finland...
...June 18-Finland mobilizes; Turkey and Germany sign Non-Aggression Pact...
June 22-Germany attacks Russia along a 2,000-mile front from Finland to Bessarabia...
...north, the Finnish Front was at first relatively quiet. The tired Finns, though they mobilized, had no stomach for more war. But Germany had for some time been gathering a big troop pool in Norway. This moved up over the top into Finland, maybe directly into Russia...
Lessons of Finland. Crusty old Paul von Hindenburg once said: "Any general who fights against the Russians can be perfectly sure of one thing: he will be outnumbered." The Germans are outnumbered in this battle. First reports indicated that the Russians had about 175 divisions on the front, to about 130 German divisions-perhaps 3,000,000 Russians against perhaps 2,000,000 Germans...