#896: Guy from Latvia -

Many Latvians believe that the Latvian Waffen SS legion could not have played a
role in the Holocaust as it was not officially formed until 1943 when nearly all
of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered. However, a substantial amount of
evidence including a series of personal accounts and confirmation received from
the trial of German Nazi Adolph Eichmann, supports that unknown numbers of
Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had indeed been previously involved in the murder of
Jews as auxiliary police between 1941 and 1942. 90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war
Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, only one in ten survived.
Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion
in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi
occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main
agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called
Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly
of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were
killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Arājs
Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After this,
about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least
half of them were murdered by mid-1942.

#896: Guy from Latvia -  

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