Nazi Collaborators on Trial During the Cold War: Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police

by Richards Plavnieks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319576712
• ISBN13: 9783319576718
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"