Memorial For Victims Of The Red (Soviet) Terror

All these people were killed because they loved their people, their country and their country Pirita-Kose land, owned by banker Klaus Scheel, was nationalized in 1940 and placed at the disposal of the NKVD. From the beginning of 1941, there were secret meetings of the NKVD War Tribunal, where the defendants were sentenced to death, executions were carried out on the spot and the corpses of the executed were buried under the floors of the buildings and in the park. Between 1941 and 1942, 78 people were found on the Scheel site, of which only 34 were identified at the time of the discovery. The murders were identified by the description of the fatalities, their clothing and the objects and documents found on them. As many of their relatives and relatives were deported from Estonia by the Soviet occupation authorities at the same time as the arrests and executions of the people, they were unable to help identify the murdered. It is believed that state elders Jaan Tõnisson and Friedrich Karl Akel were also executed on the Scheel plot. A number of police and security police officers were murdered there, including Helmut Veem, the first head of the Estonian Security Police and cavalry of the Cross of Liberty. All of them were accused of counter - revolutionary activity, using the provisions of the Russian SSR, ie the foreign Criminal Code. In the autumn of 1942, the Pirita-Kosel murders were buried together with the victims of communism (altogether 114 people) found elsewhere in Tallinn and its vicinity, where today a memorial to the victims of red terror is located.