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Germans were also merchants. By 1924, there were 1,645 Germans in Finland.[2]
German families were essential for the development of Helsinki and the rest of Finland in the 1800s. German was the third most spoken language in Helsinki at the time, and German schools that still operate today were established in Helsinki.[3]
During [[World War II], there were about 200,000 German soldiers in Finland from 1941 to 1944, and an estimated 700 children were born to German soldiers and Finnish women.[4][5]
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