79 ELECTION OF THE RIIGIVOLIKOGU OF THE ESSR ON 14-15 JULY 1940 Indrek Paavle 91 APPENDIX 1. Members of the districts' committees for the ESSR Riigivolikogu election by profession 91 APPENDIX 2. Candidates opposing the ETRL who participated in the ESSR Riigivolikogu election 98 APPENDIX 3. Summarised data concerning the ESSR Riigivolikogu election

99 THE ESSR RIIGIVOLIKOGU Peeter Kaasik, Meelis Maripuu 105 DISSOLUTION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS AND REPLACEMENT OF HIGHER STATE OFFICIALS Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio 110 APPENDIX. Dismissal of the higher officials of the Republic of Estonia by the puppet government of Johannes Vares from 21 June to 25 August 1940

119 REORGANISATION OF THE POLICE FORCE AND THE COURT SYSTEM. PEOPLE'S HOME GUARD Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio, Argo Kuusik 124 APPENDIX 1. Dismissal of the Estonian Political Police personnel by the Government of Johannes Vares

131 LIQUIDATION OF THE ESTONIAN DEFENCE LEAGUE IN 1940 Peeter Kaasik 140 APPENDIX 1. ' Enactment for disbanding the Defence League 141 APPENDIX 2. Territorial structure of the Defence League in 1940

143 DISBANDING OF THE ESTONIAN ARMY AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS Peeter Kaasik

163 BEGINNING OF SOVIETISATION OF THE ECONOMY, AGRICULTURE AND SOCIAL POLICY Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio

175 DISSOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL CHAMBERS, REORGANISATION OF WORKERS' ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio 179 APPENDIX. Dissolution of the professional chambers

181 EDUCATION, UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH. THE BEGINNING OF SOVIETISATION Toomas Hiio, Peeter Kaasik

189 SOVIETISATION OF THE PRESS Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio

193 RESISTANCE MOVEMENT Peeter Kaasik i

195 LEGAL CONTINUATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA AND THE POLICIES OF NON-RECOGNITION Toomas Hiio

199 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOVIET UNION IN ESTONIA IN THE SUMMER OF 1940. DECISIONS OF THE POLITBURO CONCERNING ESTONIA IN 1940-1941 Indrek Paavle

207 THE ESSR SUPREME SOVIET AND ITS PRESIDIUM IN 1940-1941 Indrek Paavle

217 THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF THE ESTONIAN SSR IN 1940-1941 Indrek Paavle

241 SOVIETISATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN 1940-1941 Indrek Paavle

257 FATE OF THE ESTONIAN BORDER GUARDIN 1940-1941 Tiit Noormets 271 SOVIETISATION OF THE ESTONIAN COURT SYSTEM IN 1940-1941 Peeter Kaasik, Meelis Maripuu 286 APPENDIX 1. Replacement of judges 291 APPENDIX 2. Supreme Court of the ESSR 293 APPENDIX 3. Staff of the Prosecutor's Office of the ESSR on 7 April 1941

297 INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND STATE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS OF THE ESSR IN 1940-1941 Valdur Ohmann 303 APPENDIX 1. ESSR People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs in 1940-1941 306 APPENDIX 2. ESSR People's Commissariat for State Security. Structure on 1 April 1941

309 POLITICAL REPRESSION FROM JUNE TO AUGUST 1940 Peeter Kaasik, Toomas Hiio 312 APPENDIX. Fate of 14 individuals arrested in Estonia in June and July 1940

319 POLITICAL ARRESTS AND COURT CASES FROM AUGUST 1940 TO SEPTEMBER 1941 Meelis Maripuu, Argo Kuusik^ 329 APPENDIX 1. Article 58 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR 332 APPENDIX 2. Individuals sentenced to death and executed in Estonia in 1940-1941 by different war tribunals. Executions without any judicial procedure

363 THE DEPORTATIONS OF 14 JUNE 1941 Meelis Maripuu, Peeter Kaasik 380 APPENDIX 1. Operational instructions for the deportation of the anti-Soviet element from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 384 APPENDIX 2. USSR NKGB and NKVD joint directive No. 0053/0051. 4 June 19418 388 APPENDIX 3. Order for the deportation of the family of Jtiri Uluots 389 APPENDIX 4. Instructions to the heads of the echelons for sending detainees out from the Baltic States

391 FATE OF THE ESTONIAN ELITE IN 1940-1941 Indrek Paavle 400 APPENDIX 1. Fate of the members of the Estonian governments in 1918-1940 PART II

Combat in Estonia in 1941

413 COMBAT IN ESTONIA IN 1941 Toomas Hiio

431 MOBILISATION INTO THE RED ARMY IN ESTONIA IN 1941 Tiit Noormets

445 EVACUATION IN 1941 TO THE REAR AREA IN THE SOVIET UNION Peeter Kaasik, Tonis Moldre

469 DESTRUCTION BATTALIONS IN ESTONIA IN 1941 488 APPENDIX 1. Data concerning the leadership of destruction battalions and workers' regiments formed in Estonia in 1941 490 APPENDIX 2. "Concerning the organisation of defence of the rear area of the 8th Army". The order of Deputy Commander of rear area defence of the 8th Army in the sphere Lieutenant Colonel L. Golovkin dated 15 July 1941 491 APPENDIX 3. Decoration of combatants, commanders and political workers of the destruction battalions of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Estonian SSR. Act of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR dated 16 August 1941

495 ESTONIA FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER, 1941: FOREST BROTHERS AND SUMMER WAR Peeter Kaasik, Mika Raudvassar

PART III German occupation 1941-1944

521 GERMAN CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATION IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Meelis Maripuu

539 ESTONIAN SELF-ADMINISTRATION IN 1941-1944 Indrek Paavle

569 COURT SYSTEM IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik

573 GERMAN POLICE INSTITUTIONS IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik

577 SECURITY POLICE AND SD IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik 596 APPENDIX 1. Task division plan of the Security Police and SD in Estonia. Effective from 18 March 1944

603 GERMAN ORDER POLICE IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik

607 ESTONIAN CONSTABULARY IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik 610 APPENDIX 1. Comparative table of Estonian and German police officers positions and ranks of the SS

611 SECRET FIELD POLICE OF THE WEHRMACHT IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik 613 PUBLIC SENTIMENTS DURING THE PERIOD OF GERMAN OCCUPATION Argo Kuusik

639 ESTONIAN CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS EXECUTED OR DECEASED IN IMPRISONMENT IN 1941-1944. AN OVERVIEW Indrek Paavle 648 APPENDIX 1. Executions procedure 649 APPENDIX 2. Statistics of the death sentences pronounced in 1941-1942

651 EXECUTION OF ESTONIAN JEWS IN LOCAL DETENTION INSTITUTIONS IN 1941-1942 Meelis Maripuu

663 SOVIET INVESTIGATIONS, CONCERNING THE EXECUTIONS IN ESTONIA DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION IN 1941-1944 Indrek Paavle

679 PRISON CAMPS IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Meelis Maripuu, Riho Vastrik

681 PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT SUBORDINATE TO THE CHIEF OF THE SECURITY POLICE AND SD IN 1941-1944 ESTONIA Meelis Maripuu *

689 TARTU CONCENTRATION CAMP IN 1941-1944 Riho Vastrik

705 ANNIHILATION OF CZECH AND GERMAN JEWS IN ESTONIA IN 1942-1943 Meelis Maripuu 715 APPENDIX. The personnel of Jagala concentration camp

717 FRENCH JEWS AT THE TALLINN CENTRAL PRISON IN 1944 Meelis Maripuu

719 VAIVARA CONCENTRATION CAMP IN 1943-1944 Riho Vastrik, Meelis Maripuu

739 SOVIET PRISONERS OF WAR IN ESTONIA IN 1941-1944 Meelis Maripuu

PART IV

Estonian military units in the Soviet and German armed forces

769 FORMATION OF THE ESTONIAN ARMY INTO THE RED ARMY RIFLE CORPS Peeter Kaasik 791 APPENDIX 1. The fate of the Estonian generals (in active service in 1940) 792 APPENDIX 2. The structure and location of units of the 22nd (Estonian) Territorial Rifle Corps of the Red Army in 1940-1941

797 ESTONIAN OMAKAITSE IN 1941-1944 Argo Kuusik 804 APPENDIX 1. Omakaitse territorial regiments (Malev) and commanders on 1 February 1943 807 ESTONIAN SECURITY GROUPS AND EASTERN BATTALIONS IN GERMAN ARMY IN 1941-1944 Toomas Hiio

825 ESTONIAN DEFENCE BATTALIONS / POLICE BATTALIONS IN THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES Aivar Niglas, Toomas Hiio

877 SOVIET INVESTIGATIONS CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF ESTONIAN DEFENCE BATTALIONS AND POLICE BATTALIONS OF THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES IN 1941-1944 Indrek Paavle

885 FORMATION OF THE ESTONIAN RIFLE CORPSIN 1941-1942 Peeter Kaasik 903 APPENDIX 1. Structure of 7th and 249th Estonian Rifle Divisions and 8th Estonian Rifle Corps and commanders of units in 1942

909 THE 8TH ESTONIAN RIFLE CORPS IN NORTHWESTERN RUSSIA IN 1942-1944 Peeter Kaasik

927 ESTONIAN UNITS IN THE WAFFEN-SS Toomas Hiio, Peeter Kaasik

969 ESTONIAN BORDER DEFENCE REGIMENTS IN 1944 Aivar Niglas, Toomas Hiio 999 APPENDIX 1. Commanders and battalion commanders of the border defence regiments

1001 THE 8TH ESTONIAN RIFLE CORPS IN THE CONQUEST OF ESTONIA IN 1944, IN COURLAND AND FROM SUMMER 1945 IN ESTONIA Peeter Kaasik

1019 ESTONIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY AFTER WORLD WAR II Kaarel Piirimae

PARTV

Combat in Estonia in 1944. Attempt to restore the independence of Estonia in 1944

1035 COMBAT IN ESTONIA IN 1944 Toomas Hiio

1095 THE GOVERNMENT OF OTTO TIEF AND THE ATTEMPT TO RESTORE THE INDEPENDENCE OF ESTONIA IN 1944: A LEGAL APPRAISAL Lauri Mdlksoo

1107 INTERNATIONAL STATUS OF ESTONIA IN 1941-1944: A LEGAL APPRAISAL Lauri Mdlksoo

1113 REPATRIATIONS TO ESTONIA AND REPATRIATION POLICY IN ESSR 1944-1955 Ranno Roosi PART VI

1129 BIOGRAPHIES

1191 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN 1939-1945

1237 BIBLIOGRAPHY

1289 COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ESTONIAN, GERMAN AND SOVIET RANKS

1293 TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

1305 INDEX 1305 PERSONAL NAME INDEX 1325 GEOGRAPHICAL NAME INDEX

1339 MAPS 1339 MAPI. Estonia 1939: counties and rural municipalities 1341 MAP 2. The organisation of the NKVD and NKGB in Estonia 1940 -1941 1343 MAP 3. Combat in Estonia 1941. The front on 21 July 1345 MAP 4. Combat in Estonia 1941. The front on 11 August 1347 MAP 5. Combat in Estonia 1941. The front on 24 August 1349 MAP 6. Northern part of the Occupied Eastern Territories 1351 MAP 7. The organisation of the Security Police and SD in Estonia 1941-1944 1353 MAP 8. Vaivara Concentration Camp and Soviet POW camps in Estonia 1941-1944 1355 MAP 9. Estonian Military units of the German Army in the rear area of Army Group "Nord" 1942-1943 1357 MAP 10. Combat in Estonia 1944

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