During the public lecture, we will go through some of the wartime places in Pori through photographs and contemporary accounts, as well as discuss the preliminary results of the memory collection organized with the Finnish Literature Society earlier this year.

One of the central airfields of Luftgau Finnland was located in Kemi, where the Germans built a considerable amount of buildings and infastructure. Before retreating from Kemi, the Germans destroted the majority of the airfield. Craters from explosions and foundations of destroyed buildings are still visible in the landscape surrounding the...