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ЭСТОНИЯ. КРОВАВЫЙ СЛЕД НАЦИЗМА : 1941-1944 ГОДЫ. СБОРНИК АРХИВНЫХ ДОКУМЕНТОВ

Bibliographic Description

Эстония. Кровавый след нацизма : 1941-1944 годы. Сборник архивных документов. – М. : Европа, 2006. – (Евровосток). – ISBN 5-9739-0087-8.

Publisher
Европа
Year of publication
2006
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Available to all

Description

In present-day Estonia, claims are persistently being spread that during the Second World War Estonian soldiers serving in the Wehrmacht did not take part in punitive operations and had nothing to do with the shooting of civilians or the extermination of Jews. This is insisted upon not only by Estonian combatants, not only by young neo-Nazis who freely propagate slogans at the very least surprising for a country admitted to the European Union, but also by senior officials, including the former president of Estonia, Arnold Ruutel. According to the official position of Estonian politicians, Estonians in German uniforms fought for Estonia's freedom on their own country's territory only against Soviet power, and did everything to "create a basis for the continuation of resistance that led to the restoration of Estonia's independence decades later". There are even more refined lies than this - this is a crude lie, refuted by the documents gathered in this book. Only documents, and they speak for themselves, without need of comment.

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