The Archives keep thousands of testimonies of Finnish Nazi crimes during World War II

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‘People were brought in the Finnish concentration camps from all the surrounding areas and from the Lake Onega region,’ explained Elena Usacheva, Head of the Department of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia. The Archives keep thousands of testimonies of Finnish Nazi crimes during World War II.

During this time in Soviet Karelia, genocide was occurring against the Russian people. The Finns divided the entire population into two parts: the privileged Karelian-Finnish population and the Slavs. Approximately 25,000 people went through the archipelago of Finnish camps, according to official figures.

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