Eesti Vabariigi Rahvuskomitee | |
![]() The September 18, 1944, appointed Government of Estonia in Riigi Teataja | |
Abbreviation | EVRK |
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Successor | Estonian Government in Exile |
Formation | March 1944 |
Dissolved | 1 December 1953 |
Type | Liberation committee / Provisional government |
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President | Otto Tief |
The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariigi Rahvuskomitee, EVRK) was a deliberative and legislative body, formed by Estonian politicians and members of the last government of Republic of Estonia before the Soviet occupation, to control the Anti-Soviet resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Estonia in March 1944.[1] By April 1944 a large number of the committee members were arrested by the German security agencies.[2] On September 20, 1944, the committee proclaimed the Republic of Estonia restored, but two days later, the Soviet Army took control of Tallinn.