addition, its minutes for 1916–18 had disappeared. They were found in ca. 2008 in Turku, in the archives of Åbo Akademi. The names of 24 or 25 of those executed are known, but the names of 20 victims are still not known. In 1920, the bodies in the North Haaga mass grave were exhumed, and the Estonians present thought they identified the body of their former Estonian Deputy Prime Minister Jüri Vilms. According to the story the Estonians told at the time, Vilms and his retinue had been in Suursaari, where the Germans allegedly had captured them and brought them to Helsinki on a ship named Regina and then shot them at the Töölö Sugar Factory and then buried them in the North Haaga mass grave. Vilms had been a conspicuously tall man, and such a man was found in the grave. Three bodies were then transported to Estonia and buried in Viljandi County. Later it turned out that the Regina had not been to Suursaari or even moved anywhere from Helsinki during that spring. In the 2000s the idea came up that the matter could be investigated with the help of DNA technology, but Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja thought that such an investigation would be considered offensive in Estonia, and consequently, nothing was done about the matter. In 2008, a document was found in the Military Archives of Sweden, according to which Vilms was executed in May 1918 in Hauho. Vilms’ name was for a long time in a plaque at the mass grave in North Haaga, but in 2015 a new plaque was placed there without his name. This was the only mass execution that the Germans organized in Finland. References See also Pohjois-Haaga mass grave White terror in the Finnish Civil War Haaga History of Helsinki April 1918 events 1918 in Finland Massacres of men Violence against men in Europe