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| Outrage as SS men hold anniversary celebration in Estonia |
| 2004-08-11 |
| The EU newcomer Estonia was accused of amorality and gross historical insensitivity yesterday after it allowed veterans of the Nazi Waffen-SS to parade through its capital Tallinn. The event saw veterans of the 20th Estonian SS division attend a church service, lay flowers at a war memorial and attend a celebratory concert. The planned unveiling of a memorial to Estonian SS troops was cancelled at the last minute, however, and is not now expected to take place until the autumn. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #5 Badanov> IIRC they were part of Germany's whole legionare movement w/the walloons, flemish, & even norwegians making up SS units. I think about a million non-jerrys were in the SS at one time. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-08-11 22:46 |
| #4 Depends. The Waffen SS (war SS ) were primarily military units, but that is not to say they did go outside their military mission, but I would guess the SS in 1944 was too busy trying to stay out of SMERSH's custody to go engage in local pogroms. Here is a page about them, albeit I can't read German. It appears the 20th SS were local Estonian volunteers to the SS. There were an awful lot of similar combat formations operating with the German army under the SS banner, Frogs, Belgians Dutch, southern Slavs; all fielded SS units and on the eastern front during WWII. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-08-11 22:34 |
| #3 "Many Estonians regard the SS veterans as freedom fighters who fought alongside the Germans to stave off Soviet occupation" -things I've read would suggest the same. Just about the whole 20th SS was anihilated by the commies during the battle for Estonia. I can't say how much this particular SS group participated in attrocities. There's a misconception that every SS division ran concentration camps or were involved in attrocities - though I don't know enough about the 20th SS to say one way or the other. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-08-11 21:45 |
| #2 Thw worm will turn one day. Knocking dead Jews is risk free for these yokels...Baltic countries keeping poking Russia in the eye, however...this will be remembered by a future Czar... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2004-08-11 18:30 |
| #1 "We're just showing that we are proper EU-types. We don't have a lot of Moslem joooooo-haters like France does, so we had to use some locals." |
| Posted by: jackal 2004-08-11 12:49 |