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Men from Forgotten Army (2006)

Original title: Mees unustatud armeest

Documentary Duration 55:52

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Modern Estonia enthusiastically participates in various peacekeeping missions. It is a new international burden for a small country that regained its independence in 1991. But how could its souldiers wear the emblem of the 1946 Estonian Guard Company? One of the responsibilities of Estonian Guard Company No. 4221, which existed from 1946 to 1955, was to guard highranking criminals at the Nuremberg Trials. The men in the Estonian company were mobilised against their will when the freedom of their homeland was taken away by Nazi Germany, and their own Estonian Army was demolished. For a while, many of them had been kept in the prison camps of the Allied Forces. Then suddenly the prisoners were turned into guards of high-profile Nurenberg prisoners. Why?
Mehed unustatud armeest / Men of a Forgotten Army (2008). Rmt: Eesti film / Estonian Film 2000-2006. Tallinn: Eesti Filmi Sihtasutus, lk 448.

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