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Plans by an Estonian veterans' group to erect a monument in the city of Parnu representing an Estonian soldier in a Waffen SS uniform unleashed fierce debate this week both inside and outside the ...

On the contrary, these meetings are part of a campaign to portray these Waffen-SS fighters as heroes fighting for Estonia’s freedom, even though their German masters had absolutely no intention ...

Jewish community blasts plaque honoring Waffen SS officer in Estonia. Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Jun 29, 2018, 2:56 PM (GMT+3) Holocaust Estonia. Flag of Estonia iStock.

The calendar features a dozen retouched posters that in 1940s calling fellow Estonians to support the 20th (1st Estonian) Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. The 2009 calendar, ...

20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) – Est. 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS “Skanderbeg” (1st Albanian) – Kos. 25 th Schutzmannschaft Battalion – Aus, Lat.

Estonia has been accused of fuelling anti-Semitism and glorifying Nazism after a memorial was erected there to a colonel in the Waffen SS who is alleged to have the blood of thousands of people on ...

However, Maripuu also noted that the combination of text mentioning a war of independence (not the 1918-1920 Estonian War of Independence, but in casting as a "second war of independence" Estonia's ...

Narva in February 1944 meant the bloodiest days of the war for Viktor Alexeyev, 83, fighting hand to hand against the Waffen SS. "I myself don't know how I stayed alive," he says, standing in a Soviet ...

MOSCOW, July 29. (Itar-Tass) - Russia finds it impermissible to abet to blasphemous attempts of the Estonian state authorities to honour the Waffen SS executors, the Russian Foreign Ministry ...

A bust of non-commissioned Waffen-SS officer Harald Nugiseks was set in one of the Estonian schools six months ago. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this incident timed with the 95th ...

The name of Estonian Waffen SS veteran Harald Nugiseks had been engraved on the monument at the Elora camp. Harald Nugiseks, one of those honoured, was buried with full military honours in Estonia ...