The Latvian Legion

Author : Edmunds Svencs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Andrejs M. Mezmalis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Latvia
ISBN : 9984395871

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The Latvian Legion by Andrejs M. Mezmalis Pdf

Author : Visvaldis Lācis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Latvia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127482375

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The Latvian Legion According to Independent Observers by Visvaldis Lācis Pdf

Author : Mintauts Blosfelds
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Arturs Silgailis
Publisher : R.J. Bender Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011803247

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Latvian Legion by Arturs Silgailis Pdf

Author : Mirdza Kate Baltais
Publisher : Amber Printers and Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112272443

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The Latvian Legion in Documents by Mirdza Kate Baltais Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Latvia
ISBN : UOM:39015040161948

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The Latvian Legion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Ezergailis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1998601242

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The Latvian Legion by Andrew Ezergailis Pdf

Author : Valdis O. Lumans
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Edward Anders
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789984993188

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Amidst Latvians During the Holocaust by Edward Anders Pdf

Edward Anders, son of Adolf Alperovitch (1897-1941) and Erika Sheftelovitch-Meiran (1895-1992), was born in 1926 in Libau, Latvia. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. He married Joan Fleming in 1955. They had two children.

Author : Edvīns Brūvelis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Latvia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127400054

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Latvian Legionnaires by Edvīns Brūvelis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124249645

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Latvia in World War II by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vincent Hunt
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Steven Kiersons
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781257756452

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Bear-slayers by Steven Kiersons Pdf

Between Russia and Germany lay contested lands. The domain of the German Lords and the western-most bastion of Imperial Russia, these lands have often been at the centre of European history, but their indigenous peoples have not. With the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, newly born nations sought to find a usable past to unite in common struggle. Latvia's national legend, the Bear-Slayer, was at the forefront in a battle to rescue its past from the hands of its oppressors. This book explores how the Bear-Slayer served as a template for the remembrance of two World Wars in Latvia, how the legend was used and abused by foreign occupiers, and how Latvians understand their own personal histories as an act of social memory. Also included: An interview with Latvian Waffen SS Legionnaire Janis Saulitis.

Author : Visvaldis Mangulis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Latvia
ISBN : UOM:39015009344964

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Latvia in the Wars of the 20th Century by Visvaldis Mangulis Pdf