Waffen-SS in Estonia

What the title says. A couple of clips showing SS soldiers in Estonia. I think its the 5th Panzer Division "Wiking", but I might be wrong. If anyone has more info about the clips, PM me.

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[klaabu99]

@39rc6cf

USSR sucked because they were allied with germany at beginning of war ...so UK and US sucked because they were allied to USSR who used to be allied to germany

P.S. estonia was neutral in WW2 .. so it means estonia didn't sucked .. hooray for estonia

[klaabu99]

@39rc6cf

if u didn't know estonia was officially neutral in WWII and was occupied by russia then by germany and then again by russia ... and estonians didn't had much choice for allies ... but one was sure that enemy was right

and maybe u want to talk war crimes comitted by u nation???

[klaabu99]

@sonbuhitsunei

i belive u got it wrong .. estonians didn't feared stalin thats why there was almost no fighting when red army came to estonia at 1939 .. lot of ppl even tought that life will be better .. and then when terror began ppl didn't belived it at first tought it were like some urban legends .. and there was almost no haterd by nationalities in estonia before ww2 .. closest nationality to it was germans but it's more like historical tradition than hatred .. germans have to be bad :D

[sonbuhitsunei]

@klaabu99 Well they were Estonians, not Germans - I know that they feared what Stallin would do much more than the Germans - I did have family in Estonia that did not make it out and were deported to Siberia-never heard from again. Yeah I think you are right, must have been in 1940 because my Grandma was 8 when they moved and she was born in 1932. They also didn't like the Russians in general - my Grandma never mentioned hating the Germans, just the Russians (though G. Grandpa despised the nazis

[klaabu99]

@sonbuhitsunei it was on 1940, 1941 trains went to other direction but only 9 germans were deported to siberia on 1940... as i said it was agreement between ussr and germany ... they were allies back then ... and about joining ... germans army was much better than russian army ... my coworkers grandmother lived in belarus and she said that german troops traded chockolate others thing they had for food ... russians took all they could carrie away and u were lucky if stayed alive

[sonbuhitsunei]

@klaabu99 They were Estonian - left on a train in 1940 or 1941 - for some reason the Soviets forced them onto a train to Germany (good thing, I guess, because they also sent a lot of them to concentration camps in Siberia where many died)...my Grandma told me that her mother had a bayonette put to her chest when they were ordering her. Then of course from then on out she was living under Hitler's rule in Germany, G. Grandpa was forced to join the German army. I might study abroad in Tartu!

[klaabu99]

@sonbuhitsunei

try reading about red terror .. that may explain why they ran from communists ..

if they were germans they left because on agreement between germany and ussr .. germans who didn't left were deported to siberia or arrested .. before 22 june 1941 ... but if they were not germans then probably they left at 1944 .. to escape fro red terror

[sonbuhitsunei]

@klaabu99 I'm glad my family got out of there while they could...but why did they flee the Soviets and run to Germany is what I want to know! Oh well...it all worked out for me - if they had not left, I wouldn't exist right now as my Grandma would never have met my Grandpa here in the US when they came here in 1952! I would love to visit Estonia and meet relatives who didn't leave during the war! :P

[maoqiao]

Estonia was never on Germany`s side! We just used their weapons against rednazies-commies!

[klaabu99]

@dcoutput

u forgot to add milions in russia .. in Leningrad around 15000 estonians from 20000 were executed in 1936-38 .. and lot of nations suffered the same fate over USSR before WW2 ....

[Youantux]

@klaabu99 jah,niii nõus:)

[meegomae]

i can name jews my family saved from death and can name jews who fighted in german army against communists