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Book SynopsisA country known for its benevolent treatment of ethnic minorities, Estonia had a small number of indigenous Jews, and anti-Semitism existed on a relatively limited scale. However, many ethnic Estonians, participated in the murder of thousands of Estonian, Czech, and German Jews. This title presents a study of Estonians' role in the Holocaust.
Trade ReviewEstonians were—in Anton Weiss-Wendt’s telling words—the Third Reich’s ‘perfect collaborators.’ Shamed by the Soviet occupation in 1940 and seduced by the prospect of preferential treatment from the Nazis as the most racially superior people of Eastern Europe, Estonians welcomed the Nazis as liberators, not conquerors, and embraced their cause out of a perverted nationalism rather than anti-Semitism. Through extraordinary research, Anton Weiss-Wendt has illuminated a hitherto unknown chapter of the Holocaust in fascinating and vivid detail. Anton Weiss-Wendt does an outstanding job of chronicling the Holocaust in Estonia A comprehensive and detailed comparative study that covers not only the history of Estonia’s own Jews but also the fate of the Jews of other nations who were transported to Estonian camps. A valuable contribution to scholarship on the Holocaust and World War II. . . .Weiss-Wendt's book is empirically rich and vivid.
