Ain-Ervin Mere

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Ain-Ervin Mere (from birth to Estification Ain-Ervin Martson, also known as Ain Mere), February 22 1903 - April 5 1969, Leicester, England) was a leading Estonian collaborator with Nazi Germany. An Obersturmbannführer in the SS, he was also the head of the Sicherheitspolizei in Estonia (Estonian Security Police) following its creation in 1942.

According to the KGB archives, he was also an agent of NKVD, recruited on October 10. 1940. He was known under code name "Müller" [1][2]

On February 5 1945 in Berlin, he founded the Eesti Vabadusliit together with SS-Obersturmbannführer Harald Riipalu.[3]

He was sentenced to the capital punishment during the Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia but was not extradited by Great Britain and died there in peace.

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1. ^ (Estonian)Koputajad raiuti raamatusse
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3. ^ Veebruari sündmused (Estonian)

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Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS. It was created in May 1933 to fill the need for an additional field grade officer rank above Sturmbannführer as the SA expanded. It became an SS rank at the same time.
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Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS. It was created in May 1933 to fill the need for an additional field grade officer rank above Sturmbannführer as the SA expanded. It became an SS rank at the same time.
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Harald Riipalu (born 1912, Estonia - died 1965, Great Britain) was an Estonian military commander.

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The best-known Holocaust trial in Estonian SSR was brought in 1961, by the local Soviet authorities against Estonian collaborators who had participated in the execution of the Holocaust during the Nazi German occupation (1941-1944).
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