The Omakaitse ('home guard') was a militia organisation in Estonia. It was founded in 1917 following the Russian Revolution. On the eve of the occupation...
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World War. It was fought between the Forest Brothers (Metsavennad), the Omakaitse, and the Wehrmacht's 18th Army against the forces of the 8th Army of the...
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Brother and Omakaitse groups. Southern Estonian partisan units were yet again summoned in August 1941 under the name of Estonian Omakaitse. Members were...
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stabilised the front at the Emajõgi River. The XXVIII Army Corps supported by Omakaitse militia stalled the front at the Väike Emajõgi and Gauja Rivers, preventing...
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Selbstschutz (redirect from Estonian Omakaitse)
Selbstschutz (German for "self-protection") is the name given to different iterations of ethnic-German self-protection units formed both after the First...
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(Finland) Militia Ordenanças, Portuguese home guard from 1570 to 1831 Omakaitse, Estonian Home Guard in World War II United States Coast Guard Reserve...
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Simultaneously the German Valga–Võrtsjärv line, supported by the local Estonian Omakaitse militia battalions, repelled the heavy pressure of the Soviet 3rd Baltic...
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German XXVIII Army Corps.[page range too broad] The German and Estonian Omakaitse units held their positions and prevented the Army Detachment Narwa from...
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Oskar Lepik Jaak Prints as Richard Pastak Tõnu Oja as Omakaitse lieutenant Anne Reemann as Omakaitse female fighter Anne Margiste as Farm woman The first...
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Estonia by Nazi Germany, he served in the collaborationist paramilitary Omakaitse and later on the front as part of the Waffen-SS. After the retreat of...
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Forest Brothers, composed of former conscripts into the German military, Omakaitse militia and volunteers in the Finnish Infantry Regiment 200 who fought...
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the Omakaitse (lit. 'Self-defence'), which had between 34,000 and 40,000 members, mainly based on the Kaitseliit, dissolved by the Soviets. Omakaitse was...
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was preceded by Estonia's first armed home defence organisation, the Omakaitse (Citizens' Defence Organisation, German Bürgerwehr) against the public...
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a Communist militia called "People's Self-Defence", (Estonian: Rahva Omakaitse) on 21 June 1940. As the Red Army brought in additional reinforcements...
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thousands of Estonian soldiers, former Wehrmacht officers, and members of the Omakaitse had taken refuge in the forest. Former employees of the Soviet administration...
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same year with German Army. Soodla headed both the Estonian police and Omakaitse, a paramilitary self-defence organization during the German occupation...
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evacuation of Tallinn. The German occupation forces included a local Omakaitse militia. Einsatzgruppe A commanded by Franz Walter Stahlecker closely...
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Force Home Guard, Police Home Guard, and Infrastructure Home Guard. The Omakaitse (Home Guard) was an organisation formed by the local population of Estonia...
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the Omakaitse (lit. 'Self-defence'), which had between 34,000 and 40,000 members, mainly based on the Kaitseliit, dissolved by the Soviets. Omakaitse was...
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fighter in Vihasoo, eventually becoming the commander of the North Estonian Omakaitse. He was the mayor of Tallinn during the majority of World War II, being...
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behind the extermination of Estonian Roma people. Units of the Eesti Omakaitse (Estonian Home Guard; approximately 1000 to 1200 men) were directly involved...
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accused of being hostile towards the Soviet Union and having organized the Omakaitse at the Germans' orders in Raikküla rural municipality and acted as its...
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was born in Kiviõli, Estonia. As a high school student, he joined Eesti Omakaitse and was recruited in the German army, come World War II. In 1944, he emigrated...
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Germany Years of service 1918–1940 Estonian Army 1940-1941 NKVD 1941–1943 Omakaitse Estonian Security Police and SD 1943–1945 Waffen-SS Rank SS-Obersturmbannführer...
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collaborators before the end of 1941. Right-wing Estonian units, known as the Omakaitse were among those who aided the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Jews. During...
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the responsibility for such crimes mainly on 2.5–4 % of the Estonian Omakaitse civil defence units and the Estonian Security Police. A number of foreign...
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municipal department of the Estonian Agricultural Union, and the head of its Omakaitse (self-defense) group. Following the reoccupation of Estonia by the Soviets...
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Sicherungsgruppe, Eesti julgestusgrupp; numbered 181–186) on the basis of the Omakaitse squads (with its members contracted for one year). After September 1941...
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in World War II, Maide was Chief of Staff, and later Commander of the Omakaitse (Home Guard), a militia based on the Estonian Defence League. In wake...
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of Independence, Wahl expressed a desire to join the voluntary militia Omakaitse. As a student who wrote weapon permits for volunteers: "Among those who...
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