The Holocaust in Latvia

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma

historian, writer, activist

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

Death count of a Nazi death squad, 1941

Latvian voluntary Nazi collaborating unit

crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and collaborators

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

1941 Nazi killing squad in Lithuania

Soviet government agency tasked with investigating World War II crimes against the Soviet Union

collaborationist military force of police established in July 1941

natural scientist, Orthodox rabbi (1883–1942)

Latvian historian (1947-2014)

Holocaust memorial in Riga

museum in Latvia

Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust