The Treaty of Peace between Finland and Germany,[a] also called the Berlin Peace Treaty,[1] signed in Berlin on 7 March 1918 ended the state of war that existed between Finland and the German Empire as a result of World War I.[2] It paved the way for German intervention in the Finnish Civil War and the invasion of Åland.
According to one negative assessment, it placed Finland "firmly within the German orbit", rendering it "merely an economic satellite".[3]
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- ^ Randall Lesaffer and Mieke van der Linden, "Peace Treaties after World War I", in Frauke Lachenmann and Rudiger Wolfrum (eds.), The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: Articles from The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 910–919, at 911.
- ^ Stephan Verosta, "Peace Treaties after World War I", in Rudolf Bernhardt (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law 4: Use of Force – War and Neutrality – Peace Treaties (N–Z) (North Holland, 1982), pp. 110–117, at 112.
- ^ Patrick Salmon, Scandinavia and the Great Powers, 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 246.