Book contents
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The National Armies
- Part II The Volunteers
- Part III Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
- 13 The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
- 14 The Soviet Union
- Index
13 - The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
from Part III - Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2017
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Joining Hitler’s Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The National Armies
- Part II The Volunteers
- Part III Collaborators from within the Soviet Union
- 13 The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
- 14 The Soviet Union
- Index
Summary
Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians shared some common goals for participating in Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, but others were singular, products of particular circumstances. Some reasons for fighting were of recent origin, dictated by developments leading up to the campaign and then the vagaries of war, while others could be traced to the distant histories of these people and their region. In examining the motives for joining Hitler one is mistaken to regard the Baltic States and their peoples as a heterogeneous entity.
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- Joining Hitler's CrusadeEuropean Nations and the Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941, pp. 343 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017