Plavnieks, Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War.
Plavnieks, Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War.
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Plavnieks, Richards; Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War. Viktors Arajs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police. With Index, Cham 2017, XVI/297 S., Ppbd., neuwertig! In englischer Sprache! – This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of awork by prosecutors made a deeper mark in the annals of atrocity than the men of the so-called „Arajs Kommando“ and their leader, Victors Arajs, who killed tens of thousands of Jews on Latvian soil and participated in every aspect of the „Holocaust by Bullets“. This study also has significance for coming to terms with Latvia’s encounter with Nazism – a process that was stunted and distorted by Latvia’s domination by the USSR until 1991. Examining the country’s most notorious killers, their fates on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the contemporary Latvian’s responses in different political contexts, this volume is a record of earliest phases of this process, which must now continue and to which this book contributes.
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