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World War II losses in Estonia, estimated at around 25% of the population, were among the highest proportion in Europe. War and occupation deaths listed in the current reports total at 81,000. These include deaths in Soviet deportations in 1941, Soviet executions, German deportations, and victims of the Holocaust in Estonia.
t. e. In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then-warring German and Russian Empires. However, in the wake of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Soviet Union had invaded and occupied Estonia in June 1940 ...
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
The Holocaust in Estonia refers to Nazi crimes during the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany. By the end of 1941 virtually all of the 950 to 1,000 Estonian Jews unable to escape Estonia before its Nazi occupation (25% of the total prewar Jewish population) were killed by German units such as Einsatzgruppe A and/or local collaborators.
23 August – Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, promising mutual non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and agreeing to a division of much of Europe between those two countries. 28 September – Soviet Union coerces Estonia to sign Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty. According to the pact, Soviet Union can establish ...
9 March – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia. 26 July – Battle of Narva: The Soviets captured Narva. 29 July – Battle of Tannenberg Line: The Estonian and German counterattack stopped Soviet advance towards Tallinn. 26 August – The Soviets captured most of Tartu, what became frontline city for almost a month.
The Germans lacked concern for the fate of the Baltic states, and initiated the evacuation of the Baltic Germans. Between October and December 1939 the Germans evacuated 13,700 people from Estonia and 52,583 from Latvia, and resettled them in Polish territories incorporated into Nazi Germany. The following summer [1940], the Soviets occupied ...
World War II aftermaths: 282,000 dead people (about 1/4 of population of Estonia). [1] Arrests, nationalization of industry. [1] Guerilla warfare was intensified. About 15,000 men in underground and in the forests ( Forest Brothers ). [1]