The armed resistance of the Baltic States was truly admirable. First, after the First World War, against the Friekorps, and both the Russian Whites and Reds, later, from the Second World War into the 1950’s, against the Soviets.

The Waffen-SS raised three full-strength divisions from Estonians and Latvians. The Latvian Waffen-SS won more Knight’s Crosses than any other non-Reichsdeutsche ethnicity/nationality (the Dutch won the second-most). Army Group Kurland, surrounded in southwestern Latvia, tied down a significant number of Soviet forces, becoming the only undefeated army group of the Wehrmacht. Baltic anti-Soviet guerillas remained active over ten years after the end of the War.

Unlike the Waffen-SS divisions recruited in Germany proper, very few Estonians or Latvians fought for National Socialism, or were full members of the SS. With the exception of Communists and Jews, the Baltic nationalities(as well as the Western Ukrainians) saw the Germans as the far lesser of two evils (see also Uniforms, Organization and History of the Waffen-SS, volume 5).

This topic is, yet again, an example of the deliberate neglect, or at best, villification, of inconvenient subjects by the egalitarian quasi-Marxist-dominated academia and media in these united States and Western Europe today (this is what yours truly, found in the colleges, bookstores and libraries around New York and San Francisco).
A New Jersey Copperhead