A German soldier serving in the north of Finland secretly took photographs of the executions at Stalag 309, the prisoner of war camp in Salla. According to eyewitnesses, the condemned Soviet prisoners were marched to bomb craters outside the camp to be shot. before execution they were ordered to remove their clothes and put on cardboard sacks. According to one eyewitness report, between 150 and 200 bodies would fit into one pit. Helsingin Sanomat acquired the photographs from the State Archives of the German state of Hesse. They are not part of Oula Silvennoinen’s thesis.
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