Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nazi Germany invaded Estonia between July and December 1941, marking the start of a three-year occupation. The German forces reached Northern Baltic states as the last areas to be occupied by their army.
Hjalmar Mäe directed the Estonian Self-Administration functioning as puppet government during the occupation period. This structure operated within frameworks set by German military command despite some autonomy granted initially.
German troops disarmed all partisan groups immediately after driving out Soviets from cities like Tartu and Narva. Two thousand Estonian soldiers who participated in a parade in Tartu on July 29 were disbanded by occupying forces.
Conquest territory cost Soviets one hundred twenty-six thousand casualties with official figures suggesting more realistic number four hundred eighty thousand. German side own data shows thirty thousand dead minimum preferred forty-five thousand.
On June 25, Finland declared war on the USSR again, starting the Continuation War. Three days later Joseph Stalin called for a scorched-earth policy over radio broadcasts.