Showing posts with label Tallinn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tallinn. Show all posts

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Germans take Tallinn, Estonia, and absorb it. Finland's civil war gets bloodier.

On this day in 1918, the German Army took Tallinn, Estonia.  This act overthrew the Estonian government, which had been in place for only one day, Estonia having declared Independence a century ago yesterday.  The territory was incorporated into the German Reich.

It was acts like this that depleted German military strength at a time it could ill afford that.


In nearby Finland, Finnish White military commander Mannerheim issued a decree that White officers could execute captured Finnish Reds at their descretion, an act which would lead to the ultimate death of over 150 such individuals in Finland's short but bloody civil war.

 Mannerheim, more or less about this time, seated.