Seeking information on photos of Volunteers believed taken in Finland

Swedish Rangers with an unidentified SS-Unterscharführer

Unidentified SS Volunteers most likely in Karelia

Any information about the SS volunteers and units in these photographs would be greatly appreciated. The top photo is taken in September 1941 at the Finnish island Järnö. It shows the Swedes Captain Anders Grafström and Lieutenant Carl Gustaf Hellberg in conversation with a presumably German SS-Unterscharführer of an unidentified unit. Both Nordic and German war correspondents are known to have visited the island at the same time the photo was taken. Company Leader Captain Grafström and Lieutenant Hellberg from the Swedish Volunteer Battalion fought the Soviets in both the Winter War and the Continuation War. Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive. FU. The bottom photo is also believed to have been taken somewhere in Finland during the Continuation War. It shows a group of German or Nordic SS soldiers, possibly in the Karelia region. The front covered the sector north of Lake Ladoga and the Svir River to the Arctic Coast near Murmansk. It remained in existence until the hostilities between Finland and the Soviet Union ended with a ceasefire on September 5 1944. The photo has a handwritten caption: Uscha Kromer? Stur. Scharmer? Stur. König. Paper: Leonar © COPYRIGHT NOTICE: If you want to publish this photo in any form, please let us know by dropping us a note here. Thanks! Source: Jacob Westberg. Private Collection. Copyright © 2008 • All rights reserved • stabswache-de-euros.blogspot.com.