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Latvian soldiers fought on both sides of the conflict against their will, and in 1943 180,000 Latvian men were drafted into the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS and other German auxiliary forces. In the Baltic Offensive of autumn 1944 the Soviet Union recaptured much of its Baltic coastline, leaving 200,000 troops of Army Group North cut off in ...
The military occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany was completed on 10 July 1941, by Germany's armed forces.Initially, the territory of Latvia was under the military administration of Army Group North, but on 25 July 1941, Latvia was incorporated as Generalbezirk Lettland, subordinated to Reichskommissariat Ostland, an administrative subdivision of Nazi Germany.
The previous involvement of some Latvian Legion members in the Holocaust, including 600 members of the Arajs Kommando, and the inclusion of Latvian ultranationalist Pērkonkrusts members, [31] and other Holocaust participants, [32] [9] [33] [34] has led to accusations that, under international military law, the legion met the criteria for a ...
Latvian Army Garford-Putilov armored car "Kurzemnieks", 1920s. However, the most crucial problem and flaw for both the Latvian military and other militaries of the Baltic states on the eve of World War II had to do with the failure to organize effective military cooperation between all the Baltic states in case of a new war in the region. The ...
World War II sites in Latvia (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Military history of Latvia during World War II" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The history of Latvia began around ... During 1919 Estonia had provided military assistance to Latvia on the ... After the start of World War II Latvia declared ...
By 10 July 1941, the German armed forces had occupied all of Latvia's territory. Latvia became a part of Nazi Germany's Reichskommissariat Ostland as the Province General of Latvia (Generalbezirk Lettland). Anyone who was disobedient to the German occupation regime or had co-operated with the Soviet regime was killed or sent to concentration camps.
World War II Occupation of the Baltic states: Republic of Latvia (1940) Soviet Union. Latvian SSR; Nazi Germany. Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–44) Nazi German defeat; Soviet victory. Soviet occupation (1940) [6] German occupation (1941) [6] Soviet re-occupation (1944) [6] 1945–1956 Guerrilla war in the Baltic states: Estonian partisans ...