Original sentence: By interpreting the Estonian Waffen SS units as criminal according to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Russian Federation's Permanent Mission to the United Nations has described Rebane's reburial as evidence for charges of historical revisionism in Estonia.The Estonian authorities assert that the Estonian Waffen SS units engaged only in the combat operations at the front to defend Estonia's independence and had nothing to do with punitive operations in the territories occupied by the Nazi Germany.The Nuremberg Tribunal declared the SS criminal organization, excluding conscripts who had committed no crimes including Waffen-SS divisions composed of Baltic soldiers.The US officials have declared the Baltic Waffen SS units not to be hostile to the Government of the United States and the units were "considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities and qualification from the regular SS According to Andrew Mollo, a British authority on the SS: "the Estonian SS were very different from other SS units: Estonia had been occupied by the Red Army in 1940, the Estonians fought for the independence of their country and were brought under the SS umbrella against their will
Edited sentence: The Russian Federation's Permanent Mission to the United Nations described Rebane's World War II conduct as evidence for charges of historical revisionism in Estonia