The horror of Himmler's death squads : the Einsatzgruppen and the Holocaust in the Baltics / Norman Ridley.

Ridley, Norman (Writer on the Battle of Britain), author

Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2024.

248 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

During the Second World War, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were occupied on three separate occasions - twice by the Soviet Union and once by Nazi Germany. The signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 1939 allowed the Soviets to dominate the Baltic states without fear of German reprisals, causing many in the German-Baltic populations to flee to Poland. Soviet rule of the Baltics was brutal with the purging of political elites and deportation of many tens of thousands in a bid to turn them into vassal states. Consequently, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, many Balts saw it as a liberation from Soviet cruelties. The reality was, however, that it turned out to be the beginning of something much worse.

9781036106706 (hbk)

940.540509479

D802.B29

940.5405

English

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