Finow is a small town in Germany.
History[]
Battle of Finow[]
General John McGinnis ordered the theft of Howard Stark's samples and research about a gas called Midnight Oil, intended to keep soldiers awake for days. McGinnis deployed the gas over the Soviet 478th Rifle Division in order to help them take the city of Finow.
However, the gas caused symptoms such as anger, hallucinations and psychosis, causing the Soviet soldiers to brutally slaughter each other. Doctor Johann Fennhoff, a member of the Soviet Armed Forces, managed to use a gas mask to protect himself and survived the whole massacre. Fennhoff found his own brother brutally killed in the battlefield, with his eyes having been removed from his face and pieces of his flesh having been bitten off.[1]
Leet Brannis and Sasha Demidov were also members of the 478th Rifle Division and were declared deceased along with the rest of their comrades.[2] Fennhoff performed emergency laryngotomy procedures on Brannis and Demidov, removing their voice boxes but allowing them to survive the effects of Midnight Oil.[1]
German Arrival[]
- "There was no battle of Finow."
"Because you Nazis ambushed the Russians at night."
"No German fought any Russian at Finow." - ―Ernst Mueller and Roger Dooley[src]
A Wehrmacht squad led by Colonel Ernst Mueller arrived at Finow, finding the massacred bodies of the members of the Soviet 478th Rifle Division. Despite the things he had done during the war, Mueller could only describe the event as a massacre, with the bodies having being piled high and ripped apart.
Not knowing the truth about the event, Mueller thought the ones who attacked the Russian soldiers had already left the scene before their arrival. The United States Armed Forces blamed the German soldiers commanded by Mueller, believing they were the ones who fought against and massacred the Russians.[3]
Howard Stark's Arrival[]
The following day, Howard Stark took a plane and landed in Finow in order to witness the effects of Midnight Oil, and was horrified by the brutality of the massacre.[1] Stark went to confront General John McGinnis and started a fight despite McGinnis being physically superior to Stark. McGinnis retaliated, easily knocking Stark out.[4]
McGinnis wrote an official report about the Battle of Finow, blaming German soldiers led by Colonel Ernst Mueller for the massacre.[3]
The events at Finow left Stark distressed, leading him to begin the construction of a vault under his mansion to store his most dangerous inventions, including Midnight Oil.[5]
Appearances[]
In chronological order:
Agent Carter | Episode 1.03: Time and Tide (mentioned)- Agent Carter | Episode 1.04: The Blitzkrieg Button (mentioned)
- Agent Carter | Episode 1.05: The Iron Ceiling (mentioned)
Agent Carter | Episode 1.06: A Sin to Err (mentioned)- Agent Carter | Episode 1.07: SNAFU (mentioned)
- Agent Carter | Episode 1.08: Valediction (photo)
Trivia[]
- The town of Finow actually exists, albeit under a slightly different name. In reality, Finow is a river in eastern Germany, while the town near it is called Hohenfinow.
- Finow, is a district in the town of Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg in eastern Germany. The town Finow had been established in 1935, but was later merged with the larger city of Eberswalde in 1970 and became Eberswalde-Finow until 1993. [6] The Finowkanal (Finow Canal) flows through the city. Finow also has a small airport.