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Only in as much as the Estonian units fought on the side of Germans. There is a reason most jews who didn't flee when the Germans advanced were killed, the leve
by ivalm 7y ago
Only in as much as the Estonian units fought on the side of Germans. There is a reason most jews who didn't flee when the Germans advanced were killed, the level of collaboration between locals and Einsatzgruppe A was very high..
- tlear 7y agoYou do know Red army invaded and occupied Estonia first? With all the fun things that getting occupied by Red army and purged by NKVD entails.
- mb_72 7y agoMy Estonian grandfather worked as a police officer in Viljandi prior to and during the German occupation. It was only when the Russians invaded Estonia towards the end of the war that he, my grandmother and mother decided it was safer to flee; the terrible reputation of the advancing Russians, murdering and raping as they went, proceeded them. Just was well, as a number of his colleagues were murdered by Russian soon after they escaped. If you weren't a Jew, you were - in general - treated OK by occupying German soldiers, and least according to accounts I've heard from people who where actually there. The Germans were professional and courteous, the Russians uncontrolled and ravaging thugs. Funny how Russians always see themselves as 'liberators', not 'occupiers' of Estonia. If this was the case, once they'd driven out the Germans, why didn't they then leave?
- ivalm 7y agoSure, except my family was Jewish and my father's relatives who did not flee did get killed. I have no love for Soviets but I really think we shouldnt normalize Nazi Germans.