Vannas visited Germany twice during the war. He was promoted to medical colonel in 1942, and in 1943 he served on the committee of the Finnish Ophthalmologists' Association for the treatment of eye injuries caused by bombings. Second World War ĭuring the Winter War, Vannas served as chief physician at the Military Hospital and during the Continuation War at the Headquarters. According to some researchers, the organization planned a National Socialist coup. Vannas met with the German military leadership and held meetings in 1941–1942. He served as chairman of the nazi Finnish Realm Union. Vannas became enthusiastic about Nazism after visiting Germany in the 1930s.
He continued to work as a part-time military doctor at the Helsinki Military Hospital in the field of ophthalmology until 1937, when he became a professor. Vannas completed his studies and graduated as a Licentiate of Medicine in 1923. Vannas was also awarded the Cross of Liberty.
In 1921 he was promoted to medical captain. Īfter the Civil War, Vannas served as a medical officer in the Hennala camp, the Ladoga Infantry Regiment, the Uusimaa Regiment, the Central Finland Regiment, the Vyborg Regiment, the Air Force and the Suomenlinna Garrison until 1926. He became the Finnish Red Cross ambulance a doctor, and was imprisoned by the Red Guard.
Vannas graduated with a bachelor's degree in medicine in 1917, but his medical studies were now interrupted due to the Finnish Civil War. When Vanas's father drowned at work, Vannas was adopted as a foster child to the family of shipowner Carl Lundström. Vannas enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki but, at his father's urging, completed a degree in medicine in 1913. In the same year, his mother died and his further studies were overshadowed by other unfortunate events. Vannas completed his matriculation exam in Uusikaupunki yhteislyseo at the age of 19 in 1911. Studies and life as doctor in the military
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