A. Plan of investigation
This investigation is to find out the reasons why the Finnish Government and Swedish voluntary organizations agreed to organise the broadest child evacuation operation in war-time history. I will look at the motives for the Finnish mothers who sent their mostly under school-aged children to a foreign country for evacuation, and also discuss the motives of the Swedish people to help the Finnish children.
First I will take a quick look at how it all started and then discuss what the situation was like back at that time to understand the background for events. My ma…