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64 relations: Aleksandrs Stankus, Aleksis Dreimanis, Alfons Bērziņš, All for Latvia!, Arajs Kommando, Bauska, Bruno Rubess, Collaboration with the Axis Powers, Declaration on Latvian Legionnaires in World War II, Edgars Vinters, Emanuels Grīnbergs, Estonian Legion, For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK, Forest Brothers, Freedom Monument, German occupation of Latvia during World War II, German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II, Gottlob Berger, Guy Martin, History of Latvia, I Remember Everything, Richard, Index of World War II articles (L), Jānis Urbanovičs, Kārlis Lobe, Kurts Fridrihsons, Latvia, Latvian partisans, Latvian Police Battalions, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, List of ethnic slurs, List of military legions, List of SS personnel, List of terms used for Germans, List of Waffen-SS units, List of World War II films (1950–1989), List of World War II films since 1990, Luftwaffen-Legion Lettland, Mārtiņš Grundmanis, Mārtiņš Peniķis, Military history of Latvia during World War II, Monument to the Defenders of Bauska, Nazi songs, Occupation of the Baltic states, Oskars Perro, Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires, Rifle corps (Soviet Union), Sam Sejavka, Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944), Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944, Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers, ..., Uldis Ģērmanis, Valdemārs Baumanis, Vilis Hāzners, Visvaldis Melderis, Voldemārs Veiss, Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, Walter Krüger (SS general), World War II by country, Ypatingasis būrys, Zigmunds Skujiņš, 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian), 1998 Riga bombing, 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian), 2nd SS Infantry Brigade. Expand index (14 more) »
Aleksandrs Stankus
Aleksandrs Stankus (1907–1944) was a Latvian footballer who played for Olimpija Liepāja and Latvia national football team.
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Aleksis Dreimanis
Aleksis Dreimanis (August 13, 1914 – July 8, 2011) was a Canadian Quaternary geologist.
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Alfons Bērziņš
Alfons Bērziņš (7 November 1916 in Riga – 16 December 1987) was a Latvian long track speed skater.
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All for Latvia!
All For Latvia! (Visu Latvijai!) was a nationalist and far-right political party in Latvia, led by Raivis Dzintars and Imants Parādnieks.
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Arajs Kommando
The Arajs Kommando (also: Sonderkommando Arajs), led by SS commander and collaborator Viktors Arājs, was a unit of Latvian Auxiliary Police (Lettische Hilfspolizei) subordinated to the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD).
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Bauska
Bauska is a town in Bauska Municipality, in the Zemgale region of southern Latvia.
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Bruno Rubess
Bruno Rubess (21 December 1926, Riga, Latvia – 23 December 2009) was a Latvian businessman.
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Collaboration with the Axis Powers
Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers in World War II, some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly collaborated with the Axis Powers.
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Declaration on Latvian Legionnaires in World War II
Declaration on Latvian Legionnaires in World War II was adopted by the sixth Saeima in its second-to-last meeting on October 29, 1998.
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Edgars Vinters
Edgars Vinters (September 22, 1919 – April 29, 2014) was a Latvian painter.
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Emanuels Grīnbergs
Emanuels Donats Frīdrihs Jānis Grinbergs (1911–1982, westernized as Emanuel Grinberg) was a Latvian mathematician, known for Grinberg's theorem on the Hamiltonicity of planar graphs.
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Estonian Legion
The Estonian Legion (Eesti Leegion, Estnische Legion) was a military unit within the Combat Support Forces of the Waffen SS Verfügungstruppe during World War II, mainly consisting of Estonian soldiers.
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For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK
For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK, abbreviated to TB/LNNK) was a free market national conservative political party in Latvia.
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Forest Brothers
The Forest Brothers (also Brothers of the Forest, Forest Brethren, or Forest Brotherhood; metsavennad, meža brāļi, miško broliai) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans who waged a guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic states during, and after, World War II.
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Freedom Monument
The Freedom Monument (Brīvības piemineklis) is a memorial located in Riga, Latvia, honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920).
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German occupation of Latvia during World War II
The occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany was completed on July 10, 1941 by Germany's armed forces.
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German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II
The occupation of the Baltic states by Nazi Germany occurred during Operation Barbarossa from 1941 to 1944.
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Gottlob Berger
Gottlob Christian Berger (16 July 1896 – 5 January 1975) was a senior German Nazi official who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general), and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting during World War II.
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Guy Martin
Guy Martin (born 4 November 1981) is a British lorry-mechanic better known publicly as a motorcycle racer turned television presenter of engineering-based projects, being likened to the late Fred Dibnah.
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History of Latvia
The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe.
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I Remember Everything, Richard
I Remember Everything, Richard (Es visu atceros, Ričard) is a 1966 film produced during Soviet period at the Riga Film Studio.
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Index of World War II articles (L)
This is an Index of World War II articles, that can be found on Wikipedia.
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Jānis Urbanovičs
Jānis Urbanovičs is a Latvian politician and a member of the Saeima since 1994.
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Kārlis Lobe
Kārlis Lobe (26 March 1895 – 9 July 1985) was a Latvian officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Latvian Army and the Latvian Legion, recipient of the Order of the Three Stars.
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Kurts Fridrihsons
Kurts Heinrihs Fridrihsons (German: Kurt Heinrich Friedrichsohn) was a Latvian painter, illustrator and Anti-Soviet dissident of Baltic German origin.
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Latvia
Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
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Latvian partisans
Latvian national partisans were the Latvian national partisans who waged guerrilla warfare against Soviet rule during and after Second World War.
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Latvian Police Battalions
Latvian Police Battalions were World War II paramilitary units created from Latvian volunteers and conscripts by the Nazi German authorities who had occupied the country in June 1941.
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Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR; Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika; Латвийская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Latvia or Latvia, was a republic of the Soviet Union.
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List of ethnic slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms) that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity, or to refer to them in a derogatory (that is, critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or otherwise insulting manner.
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List of military legions
This list of military legions is in chronological order where possible.
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List of SS personnel
Between 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members.
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List of terms used for Germans
There are many alternative terms for the people of Germany.
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List of Waffen-SS units
This is an incomplete list of Waffen-SS units.
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List of World War II films (1950–1989)
This is a list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
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List of World War II films since 1990
Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
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Luftwaffen-Legion Lettland
Luftwaffen-Legion Lettland was a unit of the German Luftwaffe that served in the Eastern Front in 1944.
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Mārtiņš Grundmanis
Mārtiņš Grundmanis (18 November 1913 – 30 November 1944) was a Latvian basketball player.
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Mārtiņš Peniķis
Mārtiņš Peniķis (1874–1964) was a Latvian general and commander in chief of Latvian Army from 1928 to 1934.
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Military history of Latvia during World War II
After the occupation of Latvia by the USSR in June 1940, much of the previous Latvian army was disbanded and many of its soldiers and officers were arrested and imprisoned or executed.
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Monument to the Defenders of Bauska
The Monument to the Defenders of Bauska (Piemineklis "Bauskas aizstāvjiem pret otrreizējo padomju okupāciju") was unveiled in the small town of Bauska in southern Latvia on 14 September 2012.
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Nazi songs
Nazi songs were songs and marches used during the era of the Third Reich in Germany.
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Occupation of the Baltic states
The occupation of the Baltic states involved the military occupation of the three Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—by the Soviet Union under the auspices of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in June 1940 followed by their incorporation into the USSR as constituent republics in August 1940 - most Western powers never recognised this incorporation.
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Oskars Perro
Oskars Perro (September 26, 1918 – May 2, 2003) was Latvian soldier and writer.
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Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires
Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires (Leģionāru piemiņas diena) or the Latvian Legion Day is a day on 16 March, when soldiers of the Latvian Legion, part of the Waffen-SS, are commemorated.
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Rifle corps (Soviet Union)
A rifle corps (translit) was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century.
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Sam Sejavka
Samuel Marcus Sejavka (born 2 April 1960) is a writer, actor and musician.
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Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1944)
The Soviet Union occupied most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II.
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Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944
The Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 refers to the military occupation of Latvia by the Soviet Union in 1944.
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Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers
The Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers, in Sweden known as the Extradition of the Balts (Baltutlämningen), is a controversial political event that took place in 1945-1946, when Sweden extradited some 150 Latvian and Estonian Waffen-SS volunteers and conscripts who had been drafted and recruited by Germany to fight against the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Uldis Ģērmanis
Uldis Ģērmanis (4 October 1915 – 19 December 1997) was a Latvian historian, writer and publicist born in Novaya Ladoga, Russian Empire.
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Valdemārs Baumanis
Valdemārs Kristaps Baumanis (19 April 1905 – 24 April 1992) was a Latvian basketball player, basketball and football coach.
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Vilis Hāzners
Vilis Arveds Hāzners (1905-1989) was an officer in the Latvian army and Latvian Legion, and a recipient of the German ''Ehrenblattspange des Heeres''.
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Visvaldis Melderis
Visvaldis Melderis (19 January 1915 – 14 July 1944) was a Latvian basketball player.
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Voldemārs Veiss
Voldemārs Veiss (7 November 1899 – 17 April 1944) was a latvian officer and prominent Nazi collaborator, who served in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany.
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Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
During World War II, the Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts.
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Walter Krüger (SS general)
Walter Krüger (27 February 1890 – 22 May 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.
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World War II by country
Nearly every country in the world participated in World War II, with the exception of a few countries that remained neutral.
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Ypatingasis būrys
Ypatingasis būrys (Special Squad) or Special SD and German Security Police Squad (Vokiečių Saugumo policijos ir SD ypatingasis būrys, Specjalny Oddział SD i Niemieckiej Policji Bezpieczeństwa, also colloquially strzelcy ponarscy ("Ponary riflemen" in Polish) on Diapositive. (1941–1944) was a Lithuanian killing squad also called the "Lithuanian equivalent of Sonderkommando", operating in the Vilnius Region. The unit, primarily composed of Lithuanian volunteers,Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999, Yale University Press, was formed by the German occupational government and was subordinate to Einsatzkommando 9 and later to Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo). There are different estimates regarding the size of the unit. Polish historian Czesław Michalski estimates that it grew from base of 50Konspekt Ponary – Golgota Wileńszczyzny Czesław Michalski Pedagogical University of Cracow 2001 while Tadeusz Piotrowski asserts about that there were 100 volunteers at its onset. According to Michalski, after its initial creation, at various times hundreds of people were members. Arūnas Bubnys states that it never exceeded a core of forty or fifty men. 118 names are known; 20 of the members have been prosecuted and punished. Together with German police, the squad participated in the Ponary massacre, where some 70,000 Jews were murdered, Jews of Vilna and Lithuania in general had their own complex identity, and labels of Polish Jews, Lithuanian Jews or Russian Jews are all applicable only in part. See also: Ezra Mendelsohn, On Modern Jewish Politics, Oxford University Press, 1993,, and Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, Houghton Mifflin Books, 2003,, along with estimated 20,000 Poles and 8,000 Russian POWs, many from nearby Vilnius.
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Zigmunds Skujiņš
Zigmunds Skujins (born 25 December 1926) is a Latvian writer.
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15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian)
The 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) (15., 15.) was an Infantry Division of the Waffen SS during World War II.
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1998 Riga bombing
The 1998 Riga bombings were a series of bombings that took place in Riga, Latvia and which received considerable coverage at the time, most notably for their connection with fascist groups and the perception of an increase of fascism in Latvia.
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19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)
The 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) (19., 19.) was an Infantry Division of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
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2nd SS Infantry Brigade
The 2nd SS Infantry Brigade (mot.) was formed on the 15 May 1941, under the command of Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld with the 4th and 5th SS Infantry (formerly Totenkopf) Regiments and began its operational service in September in the rear area of Army Group North, under which command it would spend its entire existence.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Legion
