Eesti üksustest Wehrmacht’i, SSi ja politsei ning Relva-SSi alluvuses Teise maailmasõja ajal. Komplekteerimisest ja formeerimisest
Estonian Units in the Wehrmacht, SS and Police System

Summary/Abstract: In the course of the Second World War, Estonia was occupied by two totalitarian states. In 1940–1941, and again, from 1944 on, the occupier was the Soviet Union, but during the years 1941–1944, it was Nazi Germany. And Estonians fought in the security and military forces of both occupiers. Plus, Estonians who had fled to Finland, also fought in the ranks of the armed forces of that nation. When Germany at first attacked the USSR, in June 1941, it wasn’t interested in recruiting the inhabitants of the freshly conquered lands into its armed forces. But already in July, the Germans realized that they needed additional manpower, especially for securing the rear of their army; for transporting the large numbers of Soviet prisoners of war; as well as for guarding roads, railroads, bridges, military bases, etc. (Longer version of this abstract is available as a separate article.)

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