This week in the war, on 19 September 1944, the Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland, the Soviet Union and Great Britain. As a result, Finland would no longer fight on the side of Germany.

The conditions of the armistice required the Finns to cede some border areas in the north and south of Finland to the Soviet Union, to pay reparations, and to expel German forces from Finnish territory. Germany had lost another ally.