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(Jewish Group) Report confirms Finnish soldiers took part in Jewish massacres during Holocaust
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Finland’s National Archives has released a report confirming that over a thousand Finnish soldiers participated in mass killings of Jews during the Holocaust.
The report was initiated last year by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who appealed to Finnish President Sauli Niinistö to launch an inquiry into the participation of Finnish volunteers in Holocaust crimes. Zuroff cited new research which revealed that they had served, and possibly participated, in murder in Nazi-occupied Ukraine in 1941.
The report found that 1,408 Finns volunteered with the Waffen SS Division Wiking, participating in massacres against “Jews, Civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region” between 1941 and 1943 while serving on the Eastern Front.
Zuroff praised Finland for its “willingness to investigate and expose a dark chapter in its history, which had previously never been revealed, [which is] an example of unique and exemplary civic courage… and for their determination to expose the historical truth even if it was painful and uncomfortable.
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