1/20/2024 0 Comments Us battle tank losses in wwii![]() ![]() ![]() Period of Estonian history from 1939 to 1945Ĭlockwise from top left: Tallinn after the great Soviet bombing raid Platoon of Estonian Forest Brothers Estonian commanders Rebane, Nugiseks and Riipalu Estonian armoured regiment on march in 1940 Estonian MG team in the Battle of Tannenberg Line conscripts of the Estonian LegionĮstonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II (1939–1945), but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1940, then by Nazi Germany in 1941, and ultimately reinvaded and reoccupied in 1944 by the Soviet Union.īackground According to the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact " the Baltic States (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)" were divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence" (German copy) ![]()
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