their clothes, and they were reburied in Estonia. Finnish historian Seppo Zetterberg has later come to the conclusion that the story of Vilms’ execution in Helsinki and burial in the Haaga mass grave is unreliable and possibly made up. The Pohjois-Haaga mass grave is now a protected site that belongs to the city of Helsinki. The site has a memorial erected in 1919, made by stone workers of the city, with no text but the year 1918 inscribed. There is also a metal fence around the grave. In May 1996, the city of Helsinki added a plaque with information of the events leading to the creation of the mass grave. With regard to the fate of Vilms, the plaque contained numerous errors. In December 2015, a new plaque was placed at the grave, with no mention of Vilms or his retinue. According to the new plaque, 28 men had been buried in the grave, when there were a total of 45 or 46 men executed. A large wooden cross had been erected by unknown people at the site of the 1918 executions in Etelä-Haaga, but it was taken away in the early 1930s. It was replaced twice, but finally taken away for good when the street Eliel Saarisen tie was built in the late 1940s. See also Haaga executions of 1918 References External links Grave of Red Guards in the woods in Haaga, 1927 (www.arjenhistoria.fi) A visit to the grave in 1947 (www.arjenhistoria.fi) The Haaga massa grave in the 1950s (www.arjenhistoria.fi) A wreath being placed at the mass grave in 1968 (www.arjenhistoria.fi White terror in the Finnish Civil War Haaga History of Helsinki April 1918 events 1918 in Finland