Unless maybe you are a devout anticommunist, there is nothing surprising about this report. What is significant, though, is the sheer amount of time that it took for an authority to confirm this: even in the late 1980s and the 1990s, when there was an increased interest in the subject of (German) Fascism, nobody stepped forward to confirm that the Finnish Waffen‐SS had participated in atrocities.

This is why Finland’s Holocaust (which is still worth reading), published in 2013, could only say ‘whether the Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers participated directly in genocidal acts during the war remains unclear and contested’. This confirmation came out in early 2019, and now the overwhelming probability is no longer deniable.

To sum it up cynically:

The maxim with which the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Adenauer in 1956 returned the honour of the whole Waffen-SS is fitting for the [Finnish] battalion’s soldiers. Those who served were, according to him [Adenauer], “Soldaten wie andere auch”—soldiers like any others.

‘Soldaten wie andere auch’ indeed.