Latvia In World War Ii

Author : Valdis O. Lumans
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0823226271

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Latvia in World War II by Valdis O. Lumans Pdf

Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000. Drawing on a wide range of sources--many brought together here for the first time--Lumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. He moves carefully through traditional sources, many of them partisan, to scholarship emerging since the end of the Cold War, to confront such issues as political loyalties, military collaboration, resistance, capitulation, the Soviet occupation, anti-Semitism, and the Latvian role in the Holocaust.

Author : Edmunds Svencs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1506144705

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The Latvian Legion (1943-1945) by Edmunds Svencs Pdf

The Latvian Legion was the largest Latvian military formation that served Nazi Germany from 1943 until the end of World War II. As the most decorated non-German Waffen-SS formation, it fought from the outskirts of Leningrad until the defensive lines of Berlin. However, it also has become a focal point of heated contemporary discussions between historians of Western Europe and the Russian Federation with accusations that the Latvian Legion engaged in war crimes and supported Nazi ideology. The author analyses the development of the Latvian nation, and what influence Russia and Germany have had on it; the creation of the Latvian Legion and what lingering effects it has on today's Latvia.

Author : Valdis Lumans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0082322627

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Latvia in World War II by Valdis Lumans Pdf

Author : Vincent Hunt
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912866939

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Blood in the Forest by Vincent Hunt Pdf

With original research and interviews with survivors, a journalist reveals the brutal yet forgotten battles in Latvia during the final months of WWII. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler’s bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles in the fields and forests of Western Latvia known as the Courland Pocket. Just an hour from the capital Riga, German forces bolstered by Latvian Legionnaires were trapped with their backs to the Baltic. Forced into uniform by Nazi and Soviet occupiers, Latvian fought Latvian – sometimes brother against brother. Hundreds of thousands of men died for little territorial gain in unimaginable slaughter. When the Germans capitulated, thousands of Latvians continued a war against Soviet rule from the forests for years afterwards. An award-winning documentary journalist, Vincent Hunt travels through the modern landscape gathering eye-witness accounts, piecing together the stories of those who survived. He meets veterans who fought in the Latvian Legion, former partisans and a refugee who fled the Soviet advance to later become President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga. A survivor of the little-known concentration camp at Popervale details his escape from a death march and subsequent survival in the forests with a Soviet partisan group - and a German deserter. With detailed maps and expert contributions alongside rare newspaper archives, photographs from private collections and extracts from diaries translated from Latvian, German and Russian, Hunt assembles a ghastly picture of death and desperation in a nation both gripped by war and at war with itself.

Author : Harry G. Kapeikis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425134006

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Exile from Latvia by Harry G. Kapeikis Pdf

Exile from Latvia is the story of a young boy's experiences before, during and after World War II, told endearingly, to touch the heart. Driven from his beloved Latvia by the Soviet Army, Harijs' family flees to Germany in the hope of being captured by the advancing American forces. The family experiences hardships of all kinds - hunger, homelessness and air raids. They brush with death many times in many ways and their life is often punctuated with misunderstandings, both humorous and tragic. Presumed guilty they must prove their innocence. The continuous migration causes Harijs to lose friends constantly. These experiences shape Harijs' life, surprisingly, in a positive way, especially in the Displaced Persons' camp under dedicated teachers and scoutmasters. There are lighter moments as young Harijs discovers girls, often handling the developing attraction in awkward though humorous ways, eventually touching the heartstrings of a girl tenderly. There is laughter, love, grief, tears and longings of the heart. Finally the anticipation of an unexpected future replaces the memories of cruelty, atrocity, hate, betrayal, misunderstandings, ignorance and fear with commitment to meet the future with confidence. During the war years Harijs made friends only to lose them. He will not lose you. You'll move alongside him through the first-person escapades of a pre-teen boy looking for answers in a senseless world.

Author : Latvijas Vēsturnieku komisija
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111297730

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Latvia in World War II by Latvijas Vēsturnieku komisija Pdf

Author : Valters Nollendorfs,Erwin Oberländer,Latvijas universitāte. Latvijas vēstures institūts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062438299

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The Hidden and Forbidden History of Latvia Under Soviet and Nazi Occupations 1940-1991 by Valters Nollendorfs,Erwin Oberländer,Latvijas universitāte. Latvijas vēstures institūts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124249645

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Latvia in World War II by Anonim Pdf

Author : VILNIS BANKOVI?S
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514403631

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Driven West, Taken East by VILNIS BANKOVI?S Pdf

THIS is a translation of a WWII memoir written by a Latvian who was conscripted into the German army in 1943 at age nineteen during the German occupation of the Baltic states. He was called out of his classes at a teacher preparatory institute, along with other boys of his age group, and drafted into the newly formed Latvian Legion, created by the Germans after their defeat at Stalingrad as an adjunct force against the Soviets on the Eastern Front. The memoir, written by Vilnis Bankovics and published in a second Latvian edition in August 2014 (Mansards), provides an eyewitness-participant account of the war in Russia and Eastern Europe that has remained largely unreported in English and American histories focused on Western Europe and the Pacifi c. As such, Bankovicss account is authentic history, told in spare, straightforward prose detailing the unalterable rush of events in the wars latter half and several varieties of captivity in the years afterward. The events he recounts form an absorbing story with a natural arc: the end of his carefree schooldays, induction, basic training in Germany, battles against the Red army, being wounded several times, losing his girl and his family in the war, being betrayed by the Germans and captured by the Russians. The second half of the book depicts nighttime interrogations; mass burials; a forced march to an overcrowded, typhus-affl icted prison; bodies littering the fields and roadsides and tossed like trash into burial pits; transportation by cattle car to a forced-labor camp in the Gulag above the Arctic Circle; illness and injury and near-starvation; but an ultimate survival and a return to the Baltic states and to Latvia at the end of his ordeal. The book draws its power from this last circumstance and the gradual revelation of an even more signifi cant kind of survivalpreservation of the authors own integrity and humanity despite the trials he undergoes. As the book shows, Vilnis Bankovics remains the thoughtful, generous, and sociable person he was before his ordeal began. Maris Roze

Author : David Stahel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510346

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Joining Hitler's Crusade by David Stahel Pdf

A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

Author : Mintauts Blosfelds
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781596517

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Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front by Mintauts Blosfelds Pdf

The memoir of a reluctant soldier coerced into military service by the Nazis and driven from his homeland by the Russians. Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, Mintauts Blosfelds was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labor in a slave camp. So he “volunteered” to fight for the Nazis. In this memoir he describes his training and how he became an instructor before being sent into Russia. He nearly perished during the terrible winter of 1943–44 after being wounded and finding himself with his friend lying dead on top of him. As the tide turned, the Russians advanced remorselessly through. He would be wounded twice more and awarded the Iron Cross for bravery. With German resistance collapsing, he had to flee for his life—capture by the Russians meant almost certain death. He surrendered to the Americans, but describes the neglect he suffered at their hands. Unable to return to Latvia, which was now occupied by the Russians, he became a Displaced Person, eventually settling in the UK. This book tells his compelling story.

Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1434315738

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Experiencing Totalitarianism by Andrejs Plakans Pdf

The nature of God unfolds throughout the pages of God Is, He Just Is, using descriptions and definitions that make Him uniquely God. As you read, various attributes of God come alive that illustrate distinct, encouraging qualities of God such as Love, Joy, Peace and as a source of Hope. You will see God as Eternal, a Friend, a Pivotal Value, as our Redeemer, and as our vital resource of strength. He is the ultimate source and resource. Through these encouraging promises of God, you will gain a deeper understanding of God. With this deeper understanding, a closer relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ will develop and you will discover that the love God has for you is immeasurable. God is a Listener who hears you; even when no one else will listen, God will, because He wants to hear from you. God loves you, He cares about you. When you think no one else cares, God cares! He cares about what you're going through. He will never leave you or forsake you. As you unfold the pages of God Is, He Just Is, you will begin to realize the life-changing value of having a deeper relationship with the Lord. He will calm the storms raging in your life and command, "peace be still." As you open up the pages, you will recognize and appreciate the benefits of trusting in the Lord. As you draw closer, this book will inspire you to trust, appreciate and praise God at all times. The rewards are endless.

Author : Andrej Angrick,Peter Klein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456014

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The 'Final Solution' in Riga by Andrej Angrick,Peter Klein Pdf

Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the elements of the National Socialists’ policies of annihilation were to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian capital’s place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.

Author : Vita Zelče,Uldis Neiburgs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9934878003

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(Two) Sides by Vita Zelče,Uldis Neiburgs Pdf

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547349626

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Walking Since Daybreak by Modris Eksteins Pdf

An account of one family’s displacement and the tragic history of twentieth-century Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia: “Deeply moving.” —Los Angeles Times Winner of the Pearson Prize for Nonfiction The immense cataclysm of World War II devastated the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, sending many of their inhabitants to the ends of the earth. Part history, part autobiography, Walking Since Daybreak tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after the war. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins’s family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those who have surged back and forth across the lowlands bordering the Baltic Sea. In the tradition of books that redefine our historical understanding, such as Huizinga’s The Waning of the Middle Ages and Burckhardt’s The Renaissance in Italy, Eksteins’s narrative is a haunting portrait of national loss and the struggle of a displaced family caught in the maw of history. “An authoritative and moving mélange . . . of historical analysis, family legend, and memoir.” —The Boston Globe “Eksteins has astutely and thrillingly braided together the tortured history of modern Latvia, his own personal story of being born there in 1943 . . . and the fate of his family as they (and countless millions) made their way to and through the refugee camps of postwar Europe.” —The Washington Post Book World “This unconventional account of the fate of the Baltic nations is also an important reassessment of WWII and its outcome . . . the pivotal character is Eksteins’s maternal great-grandmother Grieta. The tale of this Latvian chambermaid, made pregnant and then rejected by her Baltic-German baron, serves as a mirror of Latvian-German relations over the centuries. In addition, the family history opens up the subject of displacement . . . and the struggle and hope of the immigrant experience.” —Kirkus Reviews