This is an interesting article about Baltic WW2 DP's. Part of it reveals something I've suspected for a while now... the authorities had suspected that some Eastern European Nazis pretended to be Jews after WW2, in order to escape suspicion. cairn-int.info
Personal thoughts: You don't get to say you opposed both Nazis & Soviets & were only defending your country's independence, if defending your "independence" included ethnic cleansing. If you did ethnic cleansing, you were a Nazi. Maybe not a German one, but a Nazi all the same.
In 1942, a number of American newspapers reported the extermination of almost all the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Jews, and stressed the active role of the local populations in the massacres.
The author emphasizes that these Baltic DP's were favored by some authorities in the West, because they could easily assimilate in Western countries. Makes me wonder... how many of them were Baltic Germans? e-ir.info
People of German ancestry were, after all, who German Nazis had intended to use to help ethnically cleanse the Baltics.
Those Germans had settled there during the crusades... in the first effort to Germanize the East. medievalists.net
Who are the real "colonizers" in this story?
Something to think about while reading this previous thread:
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