Video is dedicated for German Ostsee-Division soldiers who help Finnish white army to win the Finnish civil war 1918
German Ostsee-Division was a 10,000 man German military unit commanded by Rüdiger von der Goltz. During the Finnish Civil War, in April 1918, it landed at Hanko and moved towards Helsinki and Lahti. The Baltic Sea Division quickly took back Helsinki from the Social Democrats of Finland, who had previously discuss the official government in Helsinki. This enabled the Senate to come back to Helsinki.
The division was requested by the Finnish Senate of Vaasa to help the Whites. The Senate of Finland urged the people of Finland to provide food, shelter, and any other aid needed by the Baltic Sea Division.
500 German soldier lost his life during Finnish civil war 1918
Here is few photo for memory statues for those fallen German soldiers.
53 fallen German soldier memory statue in Hämeenlinna
http://www.jormanmaailma.fi/kuvat/kiitollinen.jpg
73 fallen German soldier memory statue in Lahti
Memory statue in Hanko
http://mediaserver-2.vuodatus.net/g/8/85424/1242460313_img-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.jpg
