German occupation of Estonia during World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:02:39 1 German occupation
00:04:01 2 Estonian Declaration of Independence
00:06:31 3 United Baltic Duchy
00:07:30 4 Ober Ost
00:09:03 5 German military administrators
00:09:43 5.1 Estonia
00:09:58 5.2 Ösel
00:10:53 6 See also



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The occupation of Estonia by the German Empire occurred during the later stages of the First World War. On October 11–21, 1917, the Imperial German Army occupied the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), consisting of the islands of Saaremaa (Ösel), Hiiumaa (Dagö), and Muhu (Mühn).
Fighting ceased whilst negotiations over the Treaty of Brest-Litowsk took place. These broke down in February and to put pressure on the new Bolshevik regime of Soviet Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Germans landed on the mainland of Estonia on February 18, 1918 and marched on Haapsalu (Hapsal) on February 21, 1918. The Germans occupied Valga (Walk) on February 22, and Pärnu (Pernau), Viljandi (Fellin) and Tartu (Dorpat) on February 24. Tallinn (Revel), was occupied on February 25, 1918 and the rest of Estonia, the last town taken being Narva, on March 4, 1918, putting an end to both the republican regime which had declared Estonia's independence on February 24, 1918 at Tallinn, and the rule of local Russian-Estonian Red Guards. The last Red Guards escaped over the River Narva on March 5, 1918.
Lieutenant General Adolf von Seckendorff arrived in Tallinn on February 28, 1918. He had acted as Military Commander of Third Kommandatur at the head of the German military administration of the West Estonian archipelago. Later in 1918, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litowsk, the Bolsheviks renounced all claims to Estonia and Germany was free to create Baltic client states. Estonia became part of the German Ober Ost military administration for Curonia, Estonia, Livonia, Ösel, and Riga.