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Alfons Rebane

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Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane (24 June 1908 – 8 March 1976) was an Estonian military commander. [1]

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  1. 66 relations: Aizsargi, American Jewish Congress, Anton Irv, Augsburg, Baltic states, Battle of Narva (1944), Bavaria, Beate Klarsfeld, Berel Lazar, British occupation zone in Germany, Cambridge University Press, Close Combat Clasp, Colonel, Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Medal, Estonian Defence League, Estonian Land Forces, Estonian language, Estonian Military Academy, Fox, German Army (1935–1945), German Federal Archives, German occupation of Estonia during World War II, Germany, Governorate of Livonia, Guerrilla war in the Baltic states, Independence Day (Estonia), Infantry Assault Badge, Information warfare, Iron Cross, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June deportation, KGB, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Latvia, Lihula, Medal for Gallantry and Merit for Members of the Eastern Peoples, MI6, Military funeral, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia), Mustla, Narva, Nazi Germany, Obersturmbannführer, Operation Jungle, Pärnu County, President of Estonia, Russian Empire, Russian Jewish Congress, Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), ... Expand index (16 more) »

  2. Estonian Waffen-SS personnel
  3. Estonian military officers
  4. People from Kreis Walk

Aizsargi

Aizsargi was a volunteer paramilitary organization, militia with some characteristics of a military reserve force (lit, or LAO) in Latvia during the interbellum period (1918–1939).

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American Jewish Congress

The American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) is an association of American Jews organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy advocacy, using diplomacy, legislation, and the courts.

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Anton Irv

Anton Irv VR I/2, VR II/2, VR II/3 (17 September 1886 – 27 April 1919) was a highly decorated Estonian combat soldier and military officer during World War I and in the Estonian War of Independence.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (label) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany, around west of the Bavarian capital Munich.

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Baltic states

The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Battle of Narva (1944)

The Battle of Narva was a World War II military campaign, lasting from 2 February to 10 August 1944, in which the German Army Detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for possession of the strategically important Narva Isthmus.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Beate Klarsfeld

Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, and Kurt Asche.

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Berel Lazar

Shlomo Dov Pinchas Lazar (born May 19, 1964), better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi.

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British occupation zone in Germany

The British occupation zone in Germany (German: Britische Besatzungszone Deutschlands) was one of the Allied-occupied areas in Germany after World War II.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Close Combat Clasp

The Close Combat Clasp (Nahkampfspange) was a World War II German military award instituted on 25 November 1942 for participation in hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Eastern Medal

The Eastern Medal (Ostmedaille), officially the Winter Battle in the East 1941–42 Medal (Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42), was a military award of the Wehrmacht which was created by ordinance of Adolf Hitler on 26 May 1942.

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Estonian Defence League

The Estonian Defence League (Kaitseliit, 'Defence League') is a voluntary national defence organization of the Republic of Estonia, under management of the Ministry of Defence.

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Estonian Land Forces

The Estonian Land Forces (Maavägi), unofficially referred to as the Estonian Army, is the name of the unified ground forces among the Estonian Defense Forces where it has an offensive military formation role.

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Estonian language

Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.

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Estonian Military Academy

The Estonian Military Academy (Kaitseväe Akadeemia) is an institution of applied higher education for national defence in Tartu, Estonia.

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Fox

Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.

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German Federal Archives

The German Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv (BArch) (Bundesarchiv, lit. "Union-archive") are the National Archives of Germany.

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German occupation of Estonia during World War II

In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Governorate of Livonia

The Governorate of Livonia, also known as the Livonia Governorate, was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, Baltic Governorate-General until 1876.

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Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956.

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Independence Day (Estonia)

Independence Day, formally the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariigi aastapäev), is a national holiday in Estonia commemorating the Estonian Declaration of Independence which was published in the capital city Tallinn on 24 February 1918, establishing the Republic of Estonia.

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Infantry Assault Badge

The Infantry Assault Badge was a German military decoration awarded to Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht Heer soldiers during the Second World War.

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Information warfare

Information warfare (IW) is the battlespace use and management of information and communication technology (ICT) in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news.

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June deportation

The June deportation of 1941 (juuniküüditamine, jūnija deportācijas, birželio trėmimai) was a mass deportation of tens of thousands of people during World War II from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, present-day western Belarus and western Ukraine, and present-day Moldova – territories which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939–1940 – into the interior of the Soviet Union.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), or simply the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lihula

Lihula is a town in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia.

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Medal for Gallantry and Merit for Members of the Eastern Peoples

Medal for Gallantry and Merit for Members of the Eastern Peoples (Tapferkeits und Verdienstauszeichnung für Ostvölker) was a military and paramilitary award of Nazi Germany.

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Military funeral

A military funeral is a memorial or burial rite given by a country's military for a soldier, sailor, marine or airman who died in battle, a veteran, or other prominent military figures or heads of state.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Министерство иностранныхдел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.

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Mustla

Mustla is a small borough (alevik) in Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County, Estonia.

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Narva

Narva is a municipality and city in Estonia.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Obersturmbannführer

Obersturmbannführer (Senior Assault-unit Leader;; short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel).

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Operation Jungle

Operation Jungle was a programme by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) early in the Cold War from 1949 to 1955 for the clandestine insertion of intelligence and resistance agents into Poland and the Baltic states.

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Pärnu County

Pärnu County (Pärnu maakond or Pärnumaa; Kreis Pernau) is one of 15 counties of Estonia.

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President of Estonia

The president of the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariigi President) is the head of state of the Republic of Estonia.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Jewish Congress

The Russian Jewish Congress is a non-profit charitable fund and Russian Jewish organization.

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Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940)

The Soviet occupation of the Baltic states covers the period from the Soviet–Baltic mutual assistance pacts in 1939, to their invasion and annexation in 1940, to the mass deportations of 1941.

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Standartenführer

Standartenführer (short: Staf) was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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Tallinn offensive

The Tallinn offensive (Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army's 2nd Shock and 8th armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment ''Narwa'' and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944.

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Tartu offensive

The Tartu offensive operation (Тартуская наступательная операция), also known as the Battle of Tartu (Tartu lahing) and the Battle of Emajõgi (Emajõe lahingud, Schlacht am Embach) was a campaign fought over southeastern Estonia in 1944.

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The Myth of the Eastern Front

The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi–Soviet War in American Popular Culture (2008) by Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Davies, is a historical analysis of the post-war myth of the "Clean Wehrmacht", the negative impact of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS mythologies in popular culture, and the effects of historical negationism upon cultural perceptions of the Eastern Front of the Second World War.

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 26 December 1953) is an Estonian politician who served as the fourth president of Estonia from 2006 until 2016.

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Trivimi Velliste

Trivimi Velliste (born 4 May 1947, in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994 and as the Estonian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 1998. Alfons Rebane and Trivimi Velliste are university of Tartu alumni.

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University of Tartu

The University of Tartu (UT; Tartu Ülikool; Universitas Tartuensis) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia.

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Valga, Estonia

Valga (Walk) is a town in southern Estonia and the capital of Valga County and Valga Parish.

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Virumaa

Virumaa (Vironia; Low German: Wierland; Old Norse: Virland) is a former independent county in Ancient Estonia.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation.

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War Merit Cross

The War Merit Cross (Kriegsverdienstkreuz) was a state decoration of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)

The 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) was a foreign infantry division of the Waffen-SS that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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28th Jäger Division

The 28th Jäger Division was a German military unit during World War II.

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658th Eastern Battalion

The 658th Eastern Battalion (Ost Bataillon 658) was an Eastern Front World War II military unit of the Wehrmacht composed of Estonians.

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See also

Estonian Waffen-SS personnel

Estonian military officers

People from Kreis Walk

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Rebane

Also known as Alfons Vilhelm Rebane, Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane.

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