Lappeenranta mass executions refers to one or possibly two massacres that happened in the town of Lappeenranta in South-Eastern Finland in 1918 and 1944 respectively. The clamed perpetrators in both instances were the same, being the White Guard in Lappeenranta headed by judge Toivo Tapanainen.
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1918 massacre edit
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1944 massacre edit
The Soviet fourth strategic offensive in the summer of 1944 during the Continuation War caused the collapse of Finnish defences in the Karelian Isthmus and the loss of the mediaval city of Viipuri (Vyborg) on June 20. This resulted in panic and large scale desertion in the Finnish troops. The Finnish parliament responded by tightening the law on desertion. After 4 July 1944, it was possible to convict deserters to the death penalty and a total of 46 deserters were legally convicted and executed.
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References edit
- Marko Tikka and Antti O. Arponen Koston kevät - Lappeenrannan teloitukset 1918 ISBN 951-0-23450-8, WSOY 1999
- Chapter 1 on-line at the Helsingin Sanomat site
- Antti O. Arponen and Martti Meuronen Teloitetut ISBN 9525170519 KUSTANNUSOSAKEYHTIÖ REVONTULI 2006
- Rutolan sahurit teloitettiin kostoksi 1918
- LAPPEENRANTA 1918
- Political Taboos and National Trauma in Finland caused by the Civil War 1918
- Rumour about mass graves in Lappeenranta at Axis History Forum
- Markku Jokisipilä's blog
- Suomalainen teloituskäsky 26 October 2006
- Jatkosodan teloitukset 20 October 2006
- WWII Mass Grave Sought YLE 5 October 2006
- Etelä-Saimaan Huhtiniemi-jutut
- Finsk skamfläck dras fram i ljuset Dagens Nyheter 18 March 2005
- Wartime mass grave of executed deserters could be unearthed in summer at Lappeenranta campsite Helsingin Sanomat 5 March 2005