Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Nationalsozialistische Lager
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2006) 149-165
Keywords:
Jägala, Estonia (concentration camp)
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Kalevi-Liiva, Estonia (concentration camp)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews History 20th century
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Nazi concentration camps
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War crime trials
Abstract:
This study is based mainly on the proceedings of the war crimes trial in Estonia in 1960-61, in which SS Obersturmbannführer and head of the Sicherheitspolizei in Estonia, Ain-Ervin Mere, camp commander Aleksander Laak and his aide Ralf Gerrets, as well as overseer Jaan Viik were sentenced to death. Discusses how the trial was perceived in the Soviet system. Relates that the camp in Jägala was established in August 1942, near Tallinn and the nearby army shooting ground Kalevi-Liiva, where thousands of Jews were executed between 1942-44. In September 1942, the first group of ca. 2,000 German and Czech Jews arrived in Jägala. Ca. 1,500 were immediately executed, and the rest survived for a while, mainly sorting the possessions of those who were murdered. At the time when Jägala was liquidated, in September 1943, only 30 Jews remained alive. In 2002, a monument was erected at the site stating that 6,000 Jews were killed there, which Maripuu says is a greatly inflated number.
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