Ain-Ervin Mere

Ain-Ervin Mere

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" [et icon [http://www.ekspress.ee/Arhiiv/Vanad/1997/02/areen/raamat1.html Koputajad raiuti raamatusse] ] [et iconsv icon [http://www.swedenabroad.com/SelectImage/2466831784/Estland.pdf] ]

On February 5 1945 in Berlin, he founded the "Eesti Vabadusliit" together with SS-Obersturmbannführer Harald Riipalu. [ [http://www.hot.ee/vaikal/tana_02.htm Veebruari sündmused] et icon]

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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* [http://www.historycommission.ee/temp/conclusions.htm Conclusions of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity]


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