Ilmarinen 1941 – Operation Nordwind and Finland (A lecture that also touches on Hanko)

On Saturday, March 21, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, the Hanko Peninsula Front Museum, in cooperation with the Hanko Adult Education Centre, will organize a free historical lecture in the main hall of Hanko City Hall. The lecture will be held in Finnish.

The lecturer is Ville Jalovaara, Docent at the Universities of Helsinki and Turku. Jalovaara is one of Finland's most widely read researchers of 20th-century history. He has published twelve widely acclaimed works on Finland's 20th-century history. Helsinki 1944 and Stalin's Marionettes? are among his books.

The lecture is based on Jalovaara's book Ilmarinen 1941 – Operation Nordwind and Finland, which is based on extensive and partly previously unresearched archival material from both Finland and abroad. For the first time, a comprehensive study of the Finnish navy's flagship, the armored ship Ilmarinen, is presented. Ilmarinen sank after hitting a mine off Utö on September 13, 1941. 271 men died in the accident. The sinking was kept secret by order of Marshal Mannerheim until the autumn of 1945.

Hanko plays a significant role in this event series, including the involvement of armored ships in the bombing of the Hanko base in the autumn of 1941.

The lecture will be held in Finnish, and questions can also be asked in Swedish.

Books will be available for purchase at the event.

The Hanko Peninsula Front Museum will also be present to showcase the museum's activities and services.

Free entry! No registration is required for the event.