Osprey Men-at-Arms №363. Nigel Thomas, Carlos Caballero Jurado. Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2)

Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 50 p. — ISBN: 9781841761930.The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940. The grim experience of Soviet occupation made it inevitable that after the German invasion of Russia in 1941 they would fight beside the Wehrmacht as allies against the Red Army while always hoping for restored independence. That hope was crushed again in 1944-45.