Estonia exonerates Nazism

The following may sound bizarre but is absolutely true. This Saturday, the town of Kuremaa in Estonia is to host a conference marking 100 years since the birth of SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Harald Rijpalu, a local Nazi collaborator who helped his German superiors exterminate anti-Nazi resistance fighters and also Estonian and Belarusian Jews. There will be officials in attendance, a jamboree of Rijpalu’s surviving ‘brethren-in-arms’ and the presentation of a well-illustrated book, written by Estonian Defence Minister Mart Laar, which offers a sympathetic account of the bloody deeds of the Estonian Legion of Waffen SS. Interestingly, police in Germany and other European countries have already been confiscating copies of this book as neo-Nazi propaganda material.

via ruvr.ru: Estonia exonerates Nazism