Wow! That was an expensive book if one wants to buy the paper version of it. I don't think many copies of this book of only 280 pages will be sold when one has to pay 140 euros for it. I wait and see what it will cost in about 5 to 10 years.

An Estonian article that mentions Tiger tanks during this battle. So it seems that Soviet artillery officer was correct in mentioning Tiger tanks that attacked his AA battery. http://www.kool.ee/?6873 According to that article and also the Wikipedia article about the battle, the 37 and 38 Police Bat...

Mtsv. - metsavaht - ranger, forester, forest guard - a men who guards the forest. https://foorum.rindeleht.ee/viewtopic.php?p=89224#p89224 This picture shows these mtsv. mentioned (Taki mtsv. and Sopi mtsv.). So they are connected to people working in the forest? All right, thanks. Then there's jus...

Hello to all members of this foorum and especially to those members who are able to help me with answers to my questions. I was reading a bit about the battle of Kärevere where the Estonian police battalions 37 and 38, one battalion from the 5 Waffen-SS brigade "Wallonien" and one battalio...

Yes exactly. So when he said that "we" were in Stalingrad, he most likely ment "we Estonians" and not he and his mates in his company. Or he ment "we Estonians were in Leningrad" and talked about those in the Eesti Legion or the ones in 20th SS-division who fought close...

I talked to my friend and he was OK with me mentioning his dad's name in the forum. As his dad didn't want to talk a lot about the war my friend wasn't sure whether his dad would have wanted his name mentioned had he still been alive. But now when he isn't with the family anymore, there's no chance ...

No, his father's name wasn't among those dead ones from the 36 Police Battalion.

As far as his children know he left Estonia for Finland when the Germans were collecting kids born in or around 1922, 1925, or whenever he was born, to fight for the Germans. So he never joined any police battalion as far as they know. But it is of course possible that he didn't tell his boys that h...

Hello everyone interested in the Estonian volunteers who went to Finland and fight. A friend of mine has Estonian ancestry and has told me a bit about the Estonian's fights for independence, sometimes together with the other two Baltic countries, and also that many Estonians have fought together wit...