Collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe: The case of the Estonian security police

Contemporary European History

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 181-198

  Birn, Ruth Bettina ^a  

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EID: 34248074887     PISSN: 09607773     EISSN: 14692171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0960777301002016     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Statement of Sandberger to the investigators at Nuremberg, Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen (ZStL) 207 AR-Z 24/67, Bd I; also: Nurember document NO 2891
2. J.Sch. ZStL 207 AR-Z 24/67, Bd I, p. 1858ff
3. Geschaeftsverteilungsplan 18.3.1944, 819/2/2. B-IV was under Ervin Viks. The KdS had a Schutzmannschaft der Sicherheitspolizei (SMdS) battalion under his command
4. Ereignismeldung 88, 9 September 1941, BA R 58/217, report on Dorpat; of 1,200 persons arrested 150 were released 'da ofensichtlich kein Haftgrund vorlag'
5. On the same practice in Soviet occupied Poland see Jan T. Gross: Revolution from Abroad. The Soviet conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1988), p. 56
6. KdS A V, 27.1.1943, both 59/2/7
7. Zimmermann, Rassenutopie, p. 275, provides the general framework for the policy in this period
8. See Wolfgang Ayass: 'Asoziale' im Nationalsozialismus (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1995)
9. See Andres Kasekamp: 'The Estonian Veterans' League. A Fascist Movement?' Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 24, no. 2 (1993), on the question of how conservative Estonian society was. I am indebted to Dr. Kasekamp for many stimulating conversations