Overview
- Examines the crimes committed by the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police or 'Arajs Kommando' and their leader, Viktors Arajs
- Explores the postwar fates of the men of the 'Arajs Kommando' in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States
- Provides a constructive framework for historicizing Latvia’s encounter with Nazism and its aftermath
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Holocaust and its Contexts (HOLC)
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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.
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Book Title: Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War
Book Subtitle: Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police
Authors: Richards Plavnieks
Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57672-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57671-8Published: 25 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86221-7Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57672-5Published: 11 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-5711
Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 297
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Modern Europe, Political History, Crime and Society