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| Russian Ministry of Defense declassifies documents on the atrocities of the Nazis in the Estonian SSR | |
| 2024-09-22 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Russian Ministry of Defense has declassified documents testifying to the atrocities of the Nazi invaders and Estonian fascists in the occupied Estonian SSR. The relevant documents are presented in the historical section “Liberated Tallinn was Drowned in Flowers,” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Tallinn.
Also on the territory of the occupied Estonian SSR there were concentration camps, where the slave labor of prisoners of war, political prisoners and Jews was used, mass shootings and executions were carried out. Most of them died at the hands of guards, among whom were ethnic Estonians. One of the concentration camps was located in the area of the village of Klooga, 30 kilometers from Tallinn. The concentration camp held about 2 thousand Jews. "On the morning of September 19 of this year, a special SS or Gestapo team of 60 Germans arrived at the camp and during the day shot more than 1,600 people - men, women and children of Jewish nationality. No more than 80 people were accidentally saved from death," the special report of the NKVD of the Estonian SSR says. In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense presented documents showing that the Nazi occupiers did not hesitate to conduct vile and false propaganda among Estonians, in which they intimidated the local population with the arrival of the Red Army. The capital of the Estonian SSR was liberated on September 22, 1944, during the Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation by troops of the Leningrad Front under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov, with the support of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and the 13th Air Army. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Murder of the Jews of the Baltic States The day after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and even before the Germans arrived at the major Jewish settlements, murderous riots perpetrated by the Lithuanians broke out against the Jews . At the encouragement of the Germans, the riots continued and thousands of Jews were murdered. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-22 05:00 |
| #2 Yeah, it's Wikipukeda, but I'll throw it out there. Omaskaitse (home guard) |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-09-22 03:42 |
| #1 Estonians (just like latvians, lithuanians, and Ukrainians) enthusiastically collaborated with Nazis. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-22 01:42 |