Talk:Monument of Lihula
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Needs more sources, better image, in-depth description of controversy (what organisations protested? Individuals?). Section/separate article about the controversial views about WW2 in Estonia (I removed the section "A Question Handling Attitudes towards History", as it was in bad English and didn't point to any sources). --DLX 08:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
However, the Estonians in German Army had fought for their fatherland and had not been involved in war crimes.
Commission concludes that the Estonian Legion and a number of Estonian police battalions were actively involved in the rounding up and shooting of Jews in at least one town in Belarus (Nowogródek); in guard duties in at least four towns in Poland (¸ódê, Przemysl, Rzeszow, and Tarnopol); in guard duties at a number of camps in Estonia and elsewhere; and in the deportation to Germany of an unknown number of civilians from Belarus and Poland. ............................................... The Commission has reviewed the role of Estonian military units and police battalions in n effort to identify the specific units which took part in the following actions: 1) escorting Jews deported from Vilnius to camps in Estonia. 2) providing guards for the Vaivara camp complex, the camps at Tartu, Jägala, Tallinn, and camps for Soviet POWs, in all of which prisoners were killed. 3) guarding the transit camp for Jews at Izbica in Poland, where a significant number of Jews were killed. 4) providing guards to prevent the escape of Jews being rounded up in several towns in Poland, including ¸ódê, Przemysl, Rzeszow, and Tarnopol. 5) the roundup and mass shooting of the Jewish population of at least one town in Belarus (Nowogródek).
--Mkjell 17:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
"The Security Police were called in..."
That´s incorrect. Security police is not handeling protests, they´re "white collar" section of Estonian police. More information: http://kapo.ee/eng_yldinfo.html
What the author probably wanted to say is "The riot police were called in", details: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/10835/
