ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a framework for how perishing can be interpreted in terms of remembering the Second World War in Finland. The context of the chapter is Finland, the concepts of how memories might either promote or hinder the processes of progress adapted to other cases, and other geographical and cultural areas. The online discussions clearly indicated that there are still aspects of the Second World War that remain hidden, denied and forgotten in Finland for example, the partisan attacks against the civilian population in northern Finland. After the war, Finland was internat ionally perceived as an ally of Nazi Germany and sharing responsibility for the war. The cultural historian Marja Tuominen claims that the silence on the partisan attacks is an example of the politics of forgetting in Finland. Finland's sensitive, post-war relationship with the Soviet Union was identified as one reason. The contributors concerned about questions of privacy regarding the people portrayed in the photographs and their relatives.
