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that the total number remained under 300. Only a few of these were children of
German soldiers.
During the war, the Germans also had smaller and larger bases in different harbor
cities on the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia through which there was
significant logistics traffic. The following table contains data on the birth rate for
illegitimate children in these harbor cities, not including Helsinki and the already
analyzed towns of Tornio, Kemi and Oulu.
Table 4. Illegitimate children in the coastal cities of the Gulf of Finland and
the Gulf of Bothnia in 1939–1945
City 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Uuras-Viipuri
Hamina
Kotka
Valkka-Loviisa
Hanko
Turku
Pori
Rauma
Vaasa
Pietarsaari
Kokkola
Raahe
Total
- Change
104
3
19
5
7
106
39
15
51
6
9
3
367
149
2
0
6
7
121
46
11
73
7
13
5
470
65
6
23
-
2
102
36
12
56
6
14
1
323
78
5
16
8
6
93
47
14
29
2
20
7
325
74
2
18
3
7
103
75
8
47
7
16
5
365
100
5
25
7
7
111
78
21
54
7
28
1
444
80
6
33
7
12
164
81
24
46
6
20
5
484
+ 103 - 147 + 2 + 40 + 79 + 40
German transit of Finnish territory began in September 1940, and continued on
briskly to September 1944. The data in the table indicates that the birth rate for
illegitimate children in the coastal cities of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of
Bothnia did not increase in a really significant manner, although there was clear
growth. Between 1940 and 1942, 1,118 illegitimate children were born in the
aforementioned harbor cities. The corresponding number for 1943-1945 was 1,293,
for an increase of 175 (+15.6%). However, the numbers in these cases remained
quite small.
The city of Helsinki has been left out of the investigation because there were large
numbers of children born there, nor is it really possible to separate out children of
German soldiers in particular from other illegitimate children. The annual numbers
in Helsinki also fluctuated. Between 1940 and 1942 a total of 1,411 illegitimate
104