Hello all:
I am researching the history of the German-speaking Estonian nobility during WWII. While most of this minority was "repatriated" to Germany in 1940 from Estonia and Latvia - I was wondering if there are any Baltic SS experts who know if any Deutschbalten were part of the Estonian/Latvian SS formations?
Any assistance on this topic would be appreciated.
Thanks
CvS
Deutschbalten in the Estonian/Latvian SS (?)
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Re: Deutschbalten in the Estonian/Latvian SS (?)
On the web page http://www.okupatsioon.ee/propatria/pro2.txt (list of Estonian soldiers perish in the WWII) you can find a name Nikolai von Hennings, Sturmmann 24.07.1895 - 14.02.1942. If you watching date of death (at this time Estonian Legion wasn't born yet), then he was serving in some other Estonian SS formation.CvS wrote:I was wondering if there are any Baltic SS experts who know if any Deutschbalten were part of the Estonian/Latvian SS formations?
CvS
November 1944, in Posen (Poznan) by initiatives of (senior intelligence officer of former Estonian army) col. Saarsen, was formed Estonian battalion FA-326 (Abwehrgruppe 326 or Frontaufgeklärungstruppe 326) commanded by German captain Helmuth Damerau.
Veterans of this battalion are talking about a Deutschbalt Sonderführer von zur Mühlen. In hes lectures he did not told about politics of III Reich, but very thoroughly about construction of car.