Battle of Helsinki

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Battle of Helsinki

Part of: Finnish Civil War

German soldiers in the Kamppi district

date	April 12. bis 13. April 1918
place	Helsinki , Finland
output	German victory

Parties to the conflict
German Empire	The Red Guards
Commander
Rüdiger von der Goltz Hugo Meurer	FE Johansson † Edvard Nyqvist
Troop strength
6000 soldiers	1500-2000 armed
losses
54 dead	estimated 400 dead, 4,000–6,000 prisoners

The Battle of Helsinki occurred from April 12th to 13th, 1918 between the German Baltic Sea Division and the Finnish Red Guard during the Finnish Civil War and led to the capture of the Finnish capital Helsinki by the former.

On April 3, the Baltic Division went ashore in the port of Hanko . The main power of the Baltic Division advanced along the coast directly towards Helsinki. On April 11, she reached the outskirts of Helsinki in Leppävaara . The attack on the city began on April 12, and the last of the Red Guards laid down their weapons in the working-class district of Siltasaari the next day . The German victory parade took place on April 14th.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Agilolf Keßelring: The North Atlantic Alliance and Finland 1949–1961: Patterns of Perception and Politics in the Cold War. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2009. pp. 75-76. Google Books
2. ↑ Saksalaisten voitonparaati Helsingissä University of Tampere, accessed April 8, 2017. (Finnish)