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Nazi collaborators on trial during the Cold War : Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police

Title

Nazi collaborators on trial during the Cold War : Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police / Richards Plavnieks.

Author

Plavnieks, Richards Olafs

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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Description

xvi, 297 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of work by prosecutors have established the facts of Latvian collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust. No group made a deeper mark in the annals of atrocity than the men of the so-called 'Arajs Kommando' and their leader, Viktors Arājs, who killed tens of thousands of Jews on Latvian soil and participated in every aspect of the 'Holocaust by bullets.' This study also has significance for coming to terms with Latvia's encounter with Nazism - a process that was stunted and distorted by Latvia's domination by the USSR until 1991. Examining the country's most notorious killers, their fates on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and contemporary Latvians' responses in different political contexts, this volume is a record of the earliest phases of this process, which must now continue and to which this book contributes."--

Series Statement

Holocaust and its contexts

Uniform Title

Holocaust and its contexts.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and Cold War justice -- Wartime Latvia : Viktors Arājs, hell's plowman -- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : justice behind propaganda -- West Germany : the pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of "the chief" himself -- East Germany : an elaboratley squandered opportunity -- The United States : perjury, the public and the passport -- Conclusion: Justice for some, the truth for all of us.

Call Number

JFD 18-1865

ISBN

9783319576718
3319576712

LCCN

2017944184

OCLC

981117835

Author

Plavnieks, Richards Olafs, author.

Title

Nazi collaborators on trial during the Cold War : Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police / Richards Plavnieks.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Holocaust and its contexts

Holocaust and its contexts.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-1865

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