Estonian Collaboration
Units of the Eesti Omakaitse (Estonian Home Guard; approximately between 1000 and 1200 men) were directly involved in criminal acts, taking part in the round-up (and possibly killing) of 200 Roma people and 950 Jews. 15,000 Soviet POW died in Estonia because of hard living, or were executed. Units of Estonian Auxiliary Police participated in the extermination of the Jews in Estonia and Pskov region of Russia and provided guards for concentration camps for Jews and Soviet POWs (Jägala, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi), where the prisoners were killed – despite the criminal activities in which numbers of policemen were engaged. All members of Police Department B-IV did participate in such crimes. Battalion Narwa was formed from the first 800 men of the Legion to have finished their training at Dębica (Heidelager in 1943), being sent in April 1943 to join the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking in Reichskommissariat Ukraine. On May 5, 1943 the 3rd Estonian Waffen-SS brigade was formed and sent to front near Nevel. The Estonian military and police units made a significant war contribution fighting for the German Armed Forces.
From 1941 to 1943 Karl Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and personally took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who were herded into anti-tank ditches.
The final acts of liquidating the camps, such as Klooga, which involved the mass-shooting of roughly 2,000 prisoners, were committed by Estonians under German command, that is by units of the Estonian Security Police and SD and (presumably) the Schutzmannschaftsbataillon of the KdS. Survivors report that, during these last days before liberation, when Jewish slave labourers were visible, the Estonian population in part attempted to help the Jews by providing food and so on."
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