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Collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe: the Case of the Estonian Security Police

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2001

Abstract

Little has been written about collaboration with the Nazi occupiers in eastern Europe. Using new material from former Soviet archives, the issue of the security police in Estonia is presented as a case study. The commander of the German security police deliberately set up a structure whereby German and Estonian police officers worked closely together, thereby minimising the need for German personnel. Although the security police dealt with the issues which were politically and ideologically the most important, non-Germans like Estonians were accepted as collaborators.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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