Summer War
| Summer War | |||||||||
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| Part of Eastern Front (World War II) and Occupation of the Baltic States | |||||||||
German soldiers lined up in Estonia in August, 1941 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Estonian Forest Brothers Omakaitse Germany Finland | Soviet Union | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Georg von Küchler Friedrich Kurg |
Kliment Voroshilov Vladimir Tributs | ||||||||
The Summer War (Estonian: Suvesõda) was the occupation of Estonia during the Second World War. It was fought between the Forest Brothers (Metsavennad), the Omakaitse, and the Wehrmacht's 18th Army against the forces of the 8th Army of the USSR and the NKVD.