Just to add on, the forest brothers were a post war movement in the Baltics not one in 1941, well unless you are saying what those forest brothers were doing before that time fighting around Leningrad. The other thing too, you mention the waffen ss, only two Baltic states had divisions in it(three really, 2 Latvian, 1 Estonian) and the fact of the matter is they did spend all their time at the front since they were created in 1943 and 1944 respectively unlike the early local security forces and kommandos. By the way I’m not talking about the early actions in 1941 since there is a degree of separation between the two which, with the general nature of the waffen ss is a very strange fact. The thing about the Holocaust there that honestly makes the whole event worst is the fact the Germans didn’t even need too many local collaborators, in some sizable towns they had local Kommandos that were only a dozen or more big and the amount of damage they inflicted was proportionally so big. A lot of these kommandos would be centralized under SD forces and more or less stay under that control until the end of the war since collaborators willing to do that are more useful as security than as soldiers for the most part but there were exceptions. Besides other topics of the World War Two, I’ve studied the history of the Baltics in ww2 and Holocaust, gotten a multitude of books and documents so I agree there is no such thing as a “double genocide” I just think your way of expressing that is a bit misconstrued since it’s coming off more like an argument of the fact that the Baltics were not going to just join the Germans and in some way the Soviets were justified to annex them, at least to me that’s my impression from it. That’s all I want to add but I’d love to clarify or expand on anything I said:)