During World War II, about 15,000 German soldiers fell on the Finnish front. The majority of their graves are located in areas that Finland had to cede to the former Soviet Union in the peace treaty of 1947, including the large German military cemeteries Parkkina-Petsamo (Petschenga) and Salla, which were built by the Wehrmacht during the war and hold nearly 8,000 fallen soldiers.
The reburial of German war dead in what is now Finnish territory, especially from isolated field graves scattered throughout the north of the country, was carried out by the Volksbund with the help of the Finnish police as early as 1952. In 1959, the Volksbund carried out the collective reburial of all German fallen from Central and Southern Finland to Helsinki-Honkanummi and from Lapland and Oulu to Rovaniemi-Norvajärvi.
In Finland, German fallen from the First World War are buried in the following cemeteries:
Alberga (1), Ekenäs (4), Erkylä near Riihimäki (4), Gumtäkt (Gutspark) (1), Hango (new cemetery) (1), Helsinge near Helsinki-Honkanummi (6), Hoplaks near Helsinki (2), Hyvinkää/Hyvinge (15), Karis (4), Kataloinen (1), Katka (1), Kimito (1), Kyrkslätt (2), Lammin (10), Lathi (72), Liljendal (3), Lohjo (1), Lovisa (40), Mariehamm/Alland (1), Nagu near Turku (1), Nurmijärvi (1), Orimatilla (3), Riihimäki (4), Tavastehus/Hämeenlinna (54), Tuulos (10), Uusikylä (13).