Latvian SS veterans and their supporters, including several members of parliament, are set to march in the capital Riga next Wednesday in an event that has become an annual tradition.
At least several members of the All for Latvia party will march in the event, which marks the unofficial holiday of Latvian Legion Day, which honors those who fought in the German-organized, anti-Soviet Latvian SS Legion -a component of the Waffen SS- according to reports by the Baltic Course and TASS news agency. A countermarch is also expected to be held.
“Wednesday’s march of SS veterans is another example of the systematic efforts of post-Communist eastern European countries to rewrite the narrative of the World War Two and the Holocaust,” argued Dr. Efraim Zuroff, a Nazi hunter and the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Jerusalem office.
“It is incomprehensible how people who fought for the victory of Nazi Germany, the most genocidal regime in human history, can be honored in a country which is a member in good standing of both the European Union and Nato,” he continued, asserting that reports of parliamentarians participating only added to the “outrage.”
“The Simon Wiesenthal Center has monitored and protested against these marches for several years and will continue to do so as long as [people] attempt to portray those who fought alongside the forces of Nazi Germany as freedom fighters who supposedly paved the way for Latvian independence.”
He explained that while the unit in question did not participate in Holocaust crimes, many of its members played an “active role” in the liquidation of their country’s Jewish population -as well of Jews from other countries deported to Latvia- prior to enlisting.
Around sixty seven out of seventy thousand Latvian Jews died in the holocaust, he said.
According to the Baltic Course news website, many Latvians were forced into service in the Legion and “saw the German army as a lesser of two evils.”
“For many of these soldiers, the choice to join the Latvian SS Legion was a result of the brutal Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, during which tens of thousands of Latvians were executed or deported to Siberia. Many soldiers naively believed that, if they helped Germany win the war, Latvia might be rewarded with independence or autonomy,” the site asserted.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Lithuanian ultra-nationalists are slated to march in Vilnius less than a month after a similar parade in the city of Kaunas in which participants screamed slogans in honor of Holocaust collaborators.
“There were the usual nationalistic slogans and they announced that they are honoring the heroes of Lithuania who are being discredited by the enemies” of their country, Zuroff, who attended that event, said in a phone call from Kaunas at the time. “All of those are people who murdered Jews during the Holocaust.”
The Lithuanian Jewish community recently demanded that their government release a list of Nazi collaborators whose contents it has thus far declined to disclose.
Many former Soviet countries, especially in the Baltics, subscribe to what is known as the double genocide theory, in which Nazi and communist crimes are equated and said to be of a similar nature.
Ukraine, which last year passed a law honoring members of a militant nationalist organization which participated in the Holocaust, came under fire in early 2016 after announcing a contest to revamp the Babi Yar massacre site in Kiev in a way that would turn it into a generic symbol of human suffering rather than a quintessential emblem of the Holocaust. The Ukrainians subsequently backtracked
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“the most genocidal regime in human history”
Wow!?! Sounds like a mix of Hollywood propaganda films, the “history” channel, and public schools….
“For many of these soldiers, the choice to join the Latvian SS Legion was a result of the brutal Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, during which tens of thousands of Latvians were executed or deported to Siberia. Many soldiers naively believed that, if they helped Germany win the war, Latvia might be rewarded with independence or autonomy” That was not a naïve assumption and Latvians were not “forced” into joining the Waffen SS. Zuroff has no problem with the Jews that dominated the Soviet Secret Service (of course he does not mention this) in the occupied Baltic countries and other countries in Europe, the fact that they were the murderers and leaders in expelling the Balts to Siberia, many never to return and then he brings up the phony Babi Yar lie. That is what earned the Jews the hatred they received in the east. They brought it on themselves. Right now that Jew is working on a book with a hoodwinked Lithuanian to help spread more Jewish lies in Lithuania. I would hope the Latvians get huge support for their soldiers which fought for their country’s freedom from the mass murdering Jews.
This is a relatively new book on the lead up to WW II and how the British successfully did their best to ignite the war. Towards the end of the lecture the Soviet-German pact is discussed. Germany was prepared and favored giving the Baltic countries their independence, but the Soviets were not and in order to get the non-aggression pact signed, supposedly assuring each country would not attack the other, Germany agreed to the Soviet terms. The Baltic countries had been part of the Russian Empire until its demise at the end of WW I. Germany only wanted the city of Memel back. Memel was a German city the Lithuanians attacked and took over in 1923. Germany took it back in 1938.
Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof on how the war got started – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLgZAv_Iqo
No, the most genocidal regime was the Soviet Jew Bolsheviks, who liquidated at least 60 Million Gentiles, you lying Jew!
weisenthal and his ilk should know ww2 was not fought for them and is and never will be about them.
he and his over represented ilk also know their story is falling apart under the weight of its own lies….
the holocaust exists mostly in hollywood, and had nothing to do with the allied intervention.
im also sick of hearing the NSDSP and its leader referred to as ‘the most evil regeime, and most evil on earth, in history” and so on.
the bolsvhics, just one example MURDERED more people including innocent civillians than ANY OTHER groups by any name…
Why do we never hear of this?
or the Holomodor? the title of “most evil” has been misused i think… we arent our grandfsthers generation, were not so easily fooled…
the house of cards, built on a foundation of lies is crumbling….
now they scour the planet arresting 95 year old men and women…. in my opinion, there afraid of the truths they may tell and the filthy lies they may expose…
now they grasp at straws…
The ignorance about what Latvians and other Eastern Europeans faced from the horrors of Soviet oppression never ceases to amaze. This March is not about Nazis, it is about fighting for freedom and against the oppression, deportations and mass murders inflicted by the Russians at the start of the war. March is pro Latvia, not pro nazi. Latvians had very little problem with Jewish relations before Nazis invaded, after the Russians invaded.
P – Your statement might be a little misleading because the Jews were the leaders and founders of the USSR and they dominated the Soviet Secret Police that arrested or killed many Latvians and many others from the various nationalities that made up the USSR, including Russians themselves. Very few of the leaders of the USSR were Russian until later on. Stalin wasn’t Russian either. Also, Jews throughout eastern Europe were known for being communists or their sympathizers. I’ll post this video again. For your benefit this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6p1zxKnDeM
Communism and capitalism are both innovation of Jews to honour and perpetuate place of money in steering human destiny the handle on which they retained through any means and by which they held societies to ransom . They devised control mechanisms for running their money empire which has no boundaries and brooks no interference , is ruthless in using its power to keep amassing more and more. The prople of their host societies their prey . Because Jews had no homeland and took shelter under others they had no loyalty other than to money. Why Jews are divested of sensitivity for nature and higher attributes in man of loyalty , character , honour and love for soil of their birth. Why Jews are disconnect with history of their hosts have no affinity with idealism and or sacrifice for good of larger community. Why Jews are money lenders , from IMF to small bankers , extorters , exploiters , and perpetuators of licenssesness in society that dcan make it porous and pliable money addict. This said why Jews in their subtle ways have been responsible for all major conflicts of modern age as wars are the best means to generate money . They funded for and reaped from every war. They were ever on side of those who were ready to break down societies morally and destroy their national spirit. Nationalism a taboo to Jews until they started getting a lesson with creation of Israel. Why it is essential specially in small countries to pay tribute to those who challenged material and subjugation to Mammon , so that idealism of loyalty to homeland and higher attributes could survive. Why Latvian nationalism is right. This has nothing to do with holocaust which is being used to hold nationalism at Ransome. Is there a record of continuous holocaust of those who were victims of wars waged for health of worlds bankers?
“the most genocidal regime in human history”
Wow!?! Sounds like a mix of Hollywood propaganda films, the “history” channel, and public schools….
“For many of these soldiers, the choice to join the Latvian SS Legion was a result of the brutal Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, during which tens of thousands of Latvians were executed or deported to Siberia. Many soldiers naively believed that, if they helped Germany win the war, Latvia might be rewarded with independence or autonomy” That was not a naïve assumption and Latvians were not “forced” into joining the Waffen SS. Zuroff has no problem with the Jews that dominated the Soviet Secret Service (of course he does not mention this) in the occupied Baltic countries and other countries in Europe, the fact that they were the murderers and leaders in expelling the Balts to Siberia, many never to return and then he brings up the phony Babi Yar lie. That is what earned the Jews the hatred they received in the east. They brought it on themselves. Right now that Jew is working on a book with a hoodwinked Lithuanian to help spread more Jewish lies in Lithuania. I would hope the Latvians get huge support for their soldiers which fought for their country’s freedom from the mass murdering Jews.
This is a relatively new book on the lead up to WW II and how the British successfully did their best to ignite the war. Towards the end of the lecture the Soviet-German pact is discussed. Germany was prepared and favored giving the Baltic countries their independence, but the Soviets were not and in order to get the non-aggression pact signed, supposedly assuring each country would not attack the other, Germany agreed to the Soviet terms. The Baltic countries had been part of the Russian Empire until its demise at the end of WW I. Germany only wanted the city of Memel back. Memel was a German city the Lithuanians attacked and took over in 1923. Germany took it back in 1938.
Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof on how the war got started –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLgZAv_Iqo
No, the most genocidal regime was the Soviet Jew Bolsheviks, who liquidated at least 60 Million Gentiles, you lying Jew!
weisenthal and his ilk should know ww2 was not fought for them and is and never will be about them.
he and his over represented ilk also know their story is falling apart under the weight of its own lies….
the holocaust exists mostly in hollywood, and had nothing to do with the allied intervention.
im also sick of hearing the NSDSP and its leader referred to as ‘the most evil regeime, and most evil on earth, in history” and so on.
the bolsvhics, just one example MURDERED more people including innocent civillians than ANY OTHER groups by any name…
Why do we never hear of this?
or the Holomodor? the title of “most evil” has been misused i think… we arent our grandfsthers generation, were not so easily fooled…
the house of cards, built on a foundation of lies is crumbling….
now they scour the planet arresting 95 year old men and women…. in my opinion, there afraid of the truths they may tell and the filthy lies they may expose…
now they grasp at straws…
The ignorance about what Latvians and other Eastern Europeans faced from the horrors of Soviet oppression never ceases to amaze. This March is not about Nazis, it is about fighting for freedom and against the oppression, deportations and mass murders inflicted by the Russians at the start of the war. March is pro Latvia, not pro nazi. Latvians had very little problem with Jewish relations before Nazis invaded, after the Russians invaded.
P – Your statement might be a little misleading because the Jews were the leaders and founders of the USSR and they dominated the Soviet Secret Police that arrested or killed many Latvians and many others from the various nationalities that made up the USSR, including Russians themselves. Very few of the leaders of the USSR were Russian until later on. Stalin wasn’t Russian either. Also, Jews throughout eastern Europe were known for being communists or their sympathizers. I’ll post this video again. For your benefit this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6p1zxKnDeM
Communism and capitalism are both innovation of Jews to honour and perpetuate place of money in steering human destiny the handle on which they retained through any means and by which they held societies to ransom . They devised control mechanisms for running their money empire which has no boundaries and brooks no interference , is ruthless in using its power to keep amassing more and more. The prople of their host societies their prey . Because Jews had no homeland and took shelter under others they had no loyalty other than to money. Why Jews are divested of sensitivity for nature and higher attributes in man of loyalty , character , honour and love for soil of their birth. Why Jews are disconnect with history of their hosts have no affinity with idealism and or sacrifice for good of larger community. Why Jews are money lenders , from IMF to small bankers , extorters , exploiters , and perpetuators of licenssesness in society that dcan make it porous and pliable money addict. This said why Jews in their subtle ways have been responsible for all major conflicts of modern age as wars are the best means to generate money . They funded for and reaped from every war. They were ever on side of those who were ready to break down societies morally and destroy their national spirit. Nationalism a taboo to Jews until they started getting a lesson with creation of Israel. Why it is essential specially in small countries to pay tribute to those who challenged material and subjugation to Mammon , so that idealism of loyalty to homeland and higher attributes could survive. Why Latvian nationalism is right. This has nothing to do with holocaust which is being used to hold nationalism at Ransome. Is there a record of continuous holocaust of those who were victims of wars waged for health of worlds bankers?