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German occupation of Estonia during World War II

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community quickly prepared its application for cultural autonomy. Statistics on Jewish citizens were compiled. They totaled 3,045, fulfilling the minimum requirement of 3000 for cultural autonomy. In June 1926 the Jewish Cultural Council was elected and Jewish cultural autonomy was declared. Jewish cultural autonomy was of great interest to the global Jewish community. The Jewish National Endowment presented the Estonian government with a certificate of gratitude for this achievement.
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continued the practice of dragooning Estonian men, although the majority joined the German Army voluntarily, often out of the desire to fight the USSR, which had made strong enemies with many groups of society in Estonia after introducing their Marxist economic system. Up to March 1942 drafted Estonians mostly served in the rear of the Army Group North security. On August 28, 1942 the German powers announced the legal compilation of the so-called "Estonian Legion" within the
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agreement had been reached with the Germans, and the Estonians were promised amnesty if they chose to return and fight in the SS. As soon as they landed, the regiment was sent to perform a counter-attack against the Soviet 3rd Baltic Front, which had managed a breakthrough on the Tartu front, and was threatening the capital Tallinn.
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even made a motion for a resolution acknowledging the 48 years of occupation as a fact. The final version of the resolution of European parliament, however, only acknowledged Estonia's loss of independence lasting from 1940 to 1991 and that annexation of Estonia by Soviet Union was considered illegal
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stopped its advance and hung back, leaving the Estonians to do the fighting. The battle of Tartu lasted two weeks, and destroyed most of the city. Under the leadership of Friedrich Kurg, the Estonian partisans drove the Soviets from Tartu on their own. In the meanwhile, the Soviets had been murdering
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Rosenberg felt that the "Estonians were the most Germanic out of the people living in the Baltic area, having already reached 50 percent of Germanization through Danish, Swedish and German influence". Non-suitable Estonians were to be moved to a region that Rosenberg called "Peipusland" to make room
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Estonia, as an independent Member State of the EU and NATO, has the sovereign right to assess its recent tragic past, starting with the loss of independence as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 and including three years under Hitler's occupation and terror, as well as 48 years under Soviet
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Given the frequency with which police units changed their personnel, the Commission does not believe that membership in the cited units, or in any specific unit is, on its own, proof of involvement in crimes. However, those individuals who served in the units during the commission of crimes against
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Although the Directorate did not have complete freedom of action, it exercised a significant measure of autonomy, within the framework of German policy, political, racial and economic. For example, the Directors exercised their powers pursuant to the laws and regulations of the Republic of Estonia,
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received a letter from the Estonians. It had been signed in the name of "all national organizations of Estonia" by Aleksander Warma, Karl Talpak and several others, seconding the request. It was then announced that the regiment would be disbanded and that the volunteers were free to return home. An
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Unlike German forces, some support apparently existed among an undefined segment of the local collaborators for anti-Jewish actions. The standard form used for the cleansing operations was arrest 'because of communist activity'. The equation between Jews and communists evoked a positive response
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and 70 of these men were volunteers. From the very first days of her existence as a state, Estonia showed her tolerance towards all the peoples inhabiting her territories. On 12 February 1925 the Estonian government passed a law pertaining to the cultural autonomy of minority peoples. The Jewish
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delivered a radio address on February 7 that implored all able-bodied men born from 1904 through 1923 to report for military service in the SS (before this, Uluots had opposed any German mobilization of Estonians.) Following Uluots' address, 38.000 conscripts jammed registration centers. Several
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countries. After the annexation, Estonians were subject to conscription into the Red Army, which by international law is illegal if Estonia is not considered to have been a part of the USSR. When the Soviets retreated from Estonia and Germany fully occupied it, in the summer of 1941, the Germans
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on August 28. On that day, the Soviet flag shot down earlier on Pikk Hermann was replaced with the flag of Estonia by Fred Ise. After the Soviets were driven from Estonia, German troops disarmed all partisan groups. The Estonian flag was soon replaced with the German one, and the 2,000 Estonian
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Estonia, as an independent Member State of the EU and NATO, has the sovereign right to assess its recent tragic past, starting with the loss of independence resulting from the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 and ending only in 1991, the Soviet occupation and annexation of the Baltic States was never
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to join the newly formed Territorial Defense Force, assigned to defend Estonia against the Soviet advance. The maximum number of Estonians enrolled in German military units was 70,000. The initial formation of the volunteer Estonian Legion created in 1942 was eventually expanded to become a
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lost the most men, as a large group of Estonian soldiers and officers deserted from it. Furthermore, the border guards of Soviet Estonia mostly had fought for an independent Estonia, and they also escaped to the forests, becoming some of the best Estonian fighters. Estonian writer
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In June 1944 the elector's assembly of the Republic of Estonia gathered in secrecy from the occupying powers in Tallinn and appointed JĂĽri Uluots as the prime minister with the responsibilities of the President. On June 21 JĂĽri Uluots appointed Otto Tief as deputy prime minister.
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was replaced with the tricolor flag of Estonia. On September 22 the Red Army took Tallinn and the Estonian flag on Pikk Hermann was replaced with the Soviet flag. The Estonian underground government, not officially recognized by either the Nazi Germany or Soviet Union, fled to
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The conclusions of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity are available online. It says that there is an evidence of Estonian units' involvement in crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide; however, the commission noted
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In June 1942 political leaders of Estonia who had survived Soviet repressions held a hidden meeting from the occupying powers in Estonia where the formation of an underground Estonian government and the options for preserving continuity of the republic were discussed.
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was nominated the commander of the legion. Up to the end of 1942 about 1,280 men volunteered into the training camp. Bataillon Narwa was formed from the first 800 men of the Legion to have finished their training at Heidelager, being sent in April 1943 to join the
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The initial enthusiasm that accompanied the liberation from Soviet occupation quickly waned as a result and the Germans had limited success in recruiting volunteers. The draft was introduced in 1942, resulting in some 3400 men fleeing to Finland to fight in the
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by the Soviets. It is estimated that 350–500 Jews suffered this fate. About three-fourths of Estonian Jewry managed to leave the country during this period. Out the approximately 4,300 Jews in Estonia prior to the war, almost 1000 were entrapped by the Nazis.
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throughout 1944. Many Estonians hoped that they would attract support from the Allies, and ultimately a restoration of their interwar independence, by resisting the Soviet reoccupation of their country. In the end, there was no Allied military support
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Views of World War II veteran, a Russian fought on the Soviet side in Estonia answering a question: How do you feel being called an "occupier"? " Viktor Andreyev: "Half believe one thing half believe another. That's in the run of
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as soon as the Soviet regime retreated and before German troops arrived. Estonian partisans that drove the Red Army from Tartu made it possible. That all was for nothing since the Germans had made their plans as set out in
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was successful against another bridgehead, at Vaasa-Siivertsi-VepsakĂĽla. On March 6, this work was complete. The Leningrad Front concentrated 9 corps at Narva against 7 divisions and one brigade. On March 1, the Soviet
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There were, at the time of Soviet occupation in 1940, approximately 4000 Estonian Jews. The Jewish Cultural Autonomy was immediately abolished. Jewish cultural institutions were closed down. Many of Jewish people were
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By January 1944, the front was pushed back by the Red Army almost all the way to the former Estonian border. JĂĽri Uluots, the last constitutional Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, the leader of Estonian
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Peninsula. According to the Soviet data, the conquest of the territory of Estonia cost them 126,000 casualties. Some disregard the official figures and argue that a more realistic number is 480,000 for the
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granted them the right to enter the region. The creation of the Republic of Estonia in 1918 marked the beginning of a new era for the Jews. Approximately 200 Jews fought in combat for the creation of the
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fought on the Soviet side: "Estonia's participation in World War II was inevitable. Every Estonian had only one decision to make: whose side to take in that bloody fight – the Nazis' or the anti-Hitler
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Views of World War II veteran, an Estonian Ilmar Haaviste fought on the German side: "Both regimes were equally evil – there was no difference between the two except that Stalin was more cunning".
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only, considering the intensity of the fighting at the front. On the German side, their own data shows 30,000 dead, which some have similarly seen as underrated, preferring at the minimum 45,000.
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The position of the Russian Government: Russia has denied that Soviet Union illegally annexed the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1940. The Kremlin's European affairs chief
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According to the Estonian point of view, the occupation of Estonia by Soviet Union lasted five decades, only interrupted by the German occupation of 1941–1944. Estonian representatives at the
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has reviewed the role of Estonian military units and police battalions in an effort to identify the role of Estonian military units and police battalions participation during World War II in
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and the 659th Eastern Battalion commanded by Georg Sooden were involved in defeating the operation. On March 17, twenty Soviet divisions again unsuccessfully attacked the three divisions in
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With the Allied victory over Germany becoming certain in 1944, the only option to save Estonia's independence was to stave off a new Soviet invasion of Estonia until Germany's capitulation.
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As Finland left the war on September 4, 1944 according to their peace agreement with the USSR, the defence of the mainland became practically impossible and the German command decided to
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among some Estonians. Estonians often argued that their Jewish colleagues and friends were not communists and submitted proofs of pro-Estonian conduct in hope to get them released.
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wrote in 1941: "These days bogs and forests are more populated than farms and fields. The forests and bogs are our territory while the fields and farms are occupied by the enemy ".
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housed 1,300 prisoners at a time. These prisoners were mainly Jews, with smaller groups of Russians, Dutch, and Estonians. Several thousand foreign Jews were killed at the
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In the summer of 1941, the German invaders were at first seen by most Estonians as liberators from Soviet terror, since the Germans arrived only a week after the
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Round-ups and killings of Jews began immediately following the arrival of the first German troops in 1941, who were closely followed by the extermination squad
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On January 6, 1943 a meeting was held at the Estonian foreign delegation in Stockholm. It was decided that, in order to preserve the legal continuity of the
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At the end of July the Germans resumed their advance in Estonia, working with the Estonian Forest Brothers. Both German troops and Estonian partisans took
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policy in areas to be abandoned. Because the northernmost areas of the Baltic states were the last to be reached by the Germans, it was here that the
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Most Estonians greeted the Germans with relatively open arms and hoped for the restoration of independence. Estonia set up an administration, led by
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on July 10 and prepared for another battle with the Soviets, they realized that Estonian partisans were already fighting the Soviet troops. The
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Even though the Germans did not cross the southern Estonian border until July 7–9, many Estonian deserters from Soviet units opened fire on the
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On August 19, 1944 JĂĽri Uluots, in a radio broadcast, called for the Red Army to hold back and a peace agreement to be reached.
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on June 22, 1941. Three days later, on June 25, Finland declared herself to once again be at war with the USSR, starting the
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Sinimäed 1944: II maailmasõja lahingud Kirde-Eestis (Sinimäed Hills 1944: Battles of World War II in Northeast Estonia)
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Professor Uluots, the Estonian Government in Exile and the Continuity of the Republic of Estonia in International Law
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In 1941 Estonia was occupied by German troops and after a brief period of military rule by the commanders of the
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Estonian Vikings: Estnisches SS-Freiwilligen Bataillon Narwa and Subsequent Units, Eastern Front, 1943–1944.
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The annexation of Estonia by the USSR in 1940 was complete, but never recognized internationally except by
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as early as June 22. On that day, a group of Forest Brothers attacked Soviet trucks in the district of
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Views diverge on history of Estonia during World War II and following the occupation by Nazi Germany.
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Conclusions of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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Conclusions of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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After an attempt to break through the Tannenberg Line failed, the main struggle was carried to the
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from other countries, and others). For the duration of the occupation, Estonia was incorporated as
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but only to the extent that these had not been repealed or amended by the German military command.
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Extermination of the Gypsies in Estonia during World War II: Popular Images and Official Policies
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thousand Estonians who had volunteered to join the Finnish army were transferred back across the
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invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained
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The Nazi German authorities exploited occupied Estonia for their war effort, and in 1941–1944
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In April 2007 the divergent views on history of World War II in Estonia centered around the
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Collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe: the Case of the Estonian Security Police
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Collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe: the Case of the Estonian Security Police
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The White Book: Losses inflicted on the Estonian nation by occupation regimes. 1940–1991
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German advance in Latvia, Estonia and on the Leningrad front from June to December 1941
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camp. Four Estonians most responsible for the murders at Kalevi-Liiva were accused at
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for German colonists. The removal of 50% of Estonians was in accordance with the Nazi
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The process of Jewish settlement in Estonia began in the 19th century, when in 1865
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The Baltic States: The National Self-Determination of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
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In 2004 controversy regarding the events of World War II in Estonia surrounded the
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citizens held in Tartu Prison, killing 192 before the Estonians captured the city.
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Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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in June 1940, and the country was formally annexed into the USSR in August 1940.
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Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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Divisional insignia of 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
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Estonian State Commission on Examination of Policies of Repression (2005).
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soldiers who took part in the parade in Tartu on July 29, were disbanded.
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destroyed a Soviet bridgehead. Another battalion of Estonians led by
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to be returned to Estonia fully equipped. On the following day, the
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of tens of thousands of people from Estonia and other territories
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Estonian military units' involvement in crimes against humanity
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on occupied Estonian territory for foreign Jews. The largest,
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was established for internal security under the leadership of
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Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
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Communism and Crimes against Humanity in the Baltic states
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humanity are to be held responsible for their own actions.
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There are three Estonians who have been honoured with The
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Estonians greeted German soldiers as liberators in Tallinn
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European Parliament resolution of 24 May 2007 on Estonia
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The Soviet Occupation of Estonia in 1940–41 and the Jews
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until November 23, 1944, when the Germans evacuated the
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Phase II: The German occupation of Estonia in 1941–1944
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The Absolute War. Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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The Absolute War. Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
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On 1 August 1944, the Finnish government and President
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20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
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Resistance! Occupied Europe and Its Defiance of Hitler
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Resistance! Occupied Europe and Its Defiance of Hitler
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formed a government led by the Deputy Prime Minister,
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Estonia and the Estonians (Studies of Nationalities)
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Motion for a resolution on the Situation in Estonia
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Index

Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
Estonia in World War II
a series
Occupation of the
Baltic states


Baltic states
Nazi Germany
Soviet Union
Background
Baltic–Soviet relations
Soviet–Estonian
Soviet–Latvian
Soviet–Lithuanian
German–Estonian
German–Latvian
German–Lithuanian
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Soviet occupation in 1940
Soviet–Estonian
Soviet-Latvian
Soviet-Lithuanian
Orzeł incident
to Estonia
to Latvia
to Lithuania
People's Parliament
Sovietization
from Estonia
from Latvia
from Lithuania

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