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THE KISTLER-RITSO ESTONIAN FOUNDATION
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CONTENTS

DESTRUCTION OF THE ESTONIAN STATE

• Fate of the Members of Estonia’s Governments
• Liquidation of local government in Estonia
• Fate of the Estonian Armed Forces
• Elimination of the Officer Corps
• Fate of Estonia’s Judges
• Dismantling of the Estonian Court System and Formation of the ESSR Court System in 1940–1941

PERSECUTION OF THE PEOPLE

• Arrests During 1940–1941
• Passing of Verdicts
• Executions
• Administering Political Justice in the
• Soviet Union
• Extra-Judicial Institutions: Special Councils
• The Institution of the Prosecutor
• Overview of Estonian Units in the Red Army and the Actions of the Destroyer
• Battalions of the NKVD
• Post World War II Repressions
• Deportations – Integral Part of Soviet Domestic Policies
• Deportations from Estonia 1941
• March 1949 Deportations
• Creation of the Collective Farms
• in the ESSR 1944–50
• Estonian Communist Party Membership

RESISTANCE

• Estonian Citizens in the German
• Armed Forces
• Volunteers, Conscripts and Commandeered Troops
• Estonian Citizens in the Finnish Armed Forces During World War II
• Units of Estonians in the German Armed Forces DuringWorld War II
• The Estonian “Omakaitse” Militia Force
• Security Groups and the “Eastern Battalions”
• Voluntary Defense Battalions (No. 29–36), Recruited on the Basis of Orders Issued by the Commander of the SS and Police in Estonia
• Security Battalions (No. 29–33) that were formed on the Basis of Self-Defense Garrison Units
• Battalions Formed of Conscripts, Members of Estonian Military Police Units, and Men who had escaped from the Red Army (Bns. 286–293)
• Estonian Police Regiments
• Aviation Units Made Up Largely of Estonian Aviators
• Units Constituted of Estonians in the Combat SS
• The Border Defense Regiments
• Battles in Estonia in 1944
• Escape to the West
• DP Camps
• Estonian Soldiers in the Prisoner of War Camps of the Western Allies
• Jüri Uluots, the Otto Tief Government and Estonia’s Legal Continuity