Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers
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title:
Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers
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The Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers, or simply the Extradition of the Balts, was a controversial political event that took place in January 1946, in the aftermath of World War II when Sweden, a neutral country during the war, extradited to the Soviet Union some 150 Latvian and Estonian soldiers who had been recruited into Waffen-SS by Germany as well as 9 Lithuanian soldiers who had been fighting against the Soviet invasion of the Baltic states during the war. Many of them were subsequent
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1945–1946 extradition of Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian soldiers to USSR
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_extradition_of_Baltic_soldiers
date created:
2007-10-07T14:54:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T13:19:48Z
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