| | History of Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Estonians are claimed by some to be one of the longest settled European peoples, whose ancestors may have corresponded to the Comb Ceramic Culture people, who lived on the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea over 5,000 years ago. |
 | | Of the 32,100 Estonian men who were forcibly relocated to Russia under the pretext of mobilisation into the Soviet army after the German invasion of USSR in 1941, nearly 40 percent died within the next year in the so-called "labour battalions" through hunger, cold and hard work. |
 | | The initial formation of a volunteer SS Estonian legion was eventually to become in 1944 a full-sized Waffen SS volunteer division, the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian). |
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