I was showing my girlfriend a video on Lauri Törni and I noticed something about the Soviet bounty on him. It was in Finnish currency.

So were war bounties mainly used to entice enemy soldiers to kill one of their own?

If a soldier with a bounty was killed how would the killer collect his reward? Would you need the body? Dog tags? And where would the killer go for the reward? Seems dangerous to have to sneak out of your allied camp after killing one of your own and then through enemy lines.

What would keep enemy soldiers from killing the original bounty collector and claiming the reward as their own?

Would they just kill the bounty collector so they wouldn’t lose money? In the case of Lauri Törni it was 3 Million Finnish Marks. That’s a lot of money especially when you’re fighting a war.

Would bounty collectors be granted safety in the enemy country until after the war? Or would they need to make it back across enemy lines with a huge bag of money?