The mentioned book is mostly based on the so called "Tapanainen files". [/quote]Harri wrote:What "archive sources" you mean? If someone is mentioned to have been "died" in 1918 in the files of the church does not mean he/she was executed. That is just speculation. I think Tapanainen's files were used to "confirm" the executions.Anne G, wrote:But archive sources has confirmed what Tapaninen has written about the executions 1918. That somebody else has made additions about the executions 1944 in his papers, doesn't make his orginal writing suspicious.
No, that is only one source. Other sources are (Koston kevät p. 330)
a) protocols of the field court in Lappeenranta
b) church books
c) list of executeed persons made of Jaakko Paavolainen (first researcher of the subject and the author of Punainen terrori, Valkoinen terrori and Vankileirit Suomessa)
d) index cards in Lappeenranta POW camp and interregotation protocols
e) list made of Tilastollinen päätoimisto about the dead and missing persons in the war 1918
f) protocols of the high treason courts
g) census lists
h) antologies concerning deaths in the war
i) other sources, like collected memories and death notes in newspapers
Now, when one compares *critically* name by name in many sources, the result is as good as it can be. It can never be complete.
Well, as I said, I understood it otherwise. But wait and see.Harri wrote: At least I understood that Juhani Tasihin meant that all files are probably "falsified". In fact they all are copyprints which makes them more than suspicious. There are "original files" available nowhere and it is possible the originals files have been destroyed.
Not the general picture of terror. It is known in other researchs since Paavolainen. Some details may be erranous. Only 3/4 of Red offers in Lappeenranta could be identified (Koston kevät p. 331)Harri wrote: So also the information "from the year 1918" is also suspicious.
I agree. More and that, the bodies are probably not executed.Harri wrote: The last burial in question has taken place in late July 1944 when the executing after trial had become legal. There is nothing which would even hint to something illegal actions.