Report: Finnish SS Volunteers Likely Killed Jews in WWII

The research document entitled The Finnish SS-volunteers and atrocities 1941 - 1943 against Jews, detailing atrocities against civilians and Prisoners of War in Ukraine and the Caucasus Region, pictured in Helsinki, Finland, on Feb. 8, 2019. Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP

HELSINKI—An Israeli Holocaust historian praised authorities in Finland on Sunday, Feb. 10, for publishing a report that concluded Finnish volunteers serving with Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS “very likely” took part in World War II atrocities, including the mass murder of Jews.

Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center lauded the determination of the National Archives of Finland to release the findings even if doing so was “painful and uncomfortable” for Finland.