The Winter War 1939-40 (b/w photo)

The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Rovaniemi, North Finland. Here Danish reporter Ebbe Munck. 1905-1974. He started as foreign correspondent for the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidene and is here pictured writing a story for them. His assignment as foreign correspondent was a cover for his activities as a contact between the secret British sabotage organization SOE and the Danish general staff intelligence section. Munch was involved in Munck was involved in a military operation which enabled the majority of Denmarks Jews, amongst them Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Niels Bohr, to escape from the Nazis 1943. January 1940