Oskar Angelus

Oskar Angelus (May 7, 1892 - November 3, 1979) was an Estonian politician and collaborator with Nazi Germany.

Biography

Angelus was born in Harjumaa, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire, the son of Karl Angelus and Sophie Auguste Johanna Angelus (née Eichhorn).

In 1911, Angelus graduated from the University of Dorpat. He participated in the Estonian War of Independence and was awarded the Cross of Liberty, Grade III. Until 1940, he worked at the Estonian Department of Internal Affairs. In 1941, after the German occupation of Estonia and the establishment of the Estonian Self-Administration (which was subordinated to Reichskomissariat Ostland), Angelus was made Director for Home Affairs. At this position, he organized the Estonian Political Police, which carried out the murder of Estonian Jews and Roma, as well as Communists and other enemies of the German authorities, as part of the Holocaust in Estonia.^[1]

When the German occupiers were driven out of Estonia by the Red Army in 1944, Angelus fled to Germany. He stayed there until 1950, when he relocated to Sweden. Angelus lived in the Scanian city of Lund until his death in 1979, and was never prosecuted for his role in the Holocaust.^[2]

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