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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=525444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Holocaust Latvia Begins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Holocaust Latvia begins <br>on June 22,1941 when <br>the German army invaded <br>the Russian Soviet Union; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the Baltic States <br>of Lithuania, Latvia, <br>and Estonia which had <br>by Soviet military forces; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">recently been occupied<br>after a proud period <br>of independence after <br>World War One finished. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Murders of Jews<br>Communists began <br>almost immediately<br>by Einsatzgruppen; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">perpetrated by German <br>killer squads known <br>as Special Task Groups<br>Special Assignment Groups; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the German Security Police <br>Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo<br>the Security Service of the SS <br>the Sicherheitsdienst or SD. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first recorded murders <br>were on the day after invasion<br>on the night of June 23,1941<br>in town of Grobina near Liepāja; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">six Jews were killed <br>in the church cemetery<br>by Sonderkommando <br>1a members deployed; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with the 14th Army<br>Nazi German<br>Einsatzkommandos<br>were a sub-group; <br> <br>of five Einsatzgruppen <br>mobile killing squads<br>up to 3,000 men each<br>composed of 500 to 1000; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">officials of dread SS<br>Schutzstaffel (SS) <br>and Gestapo thugs<br>their vile missions; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the annihilation of Jews<br>Gypsies Soviet political <br>Commissars to kill Jews<br>all Polish intellectuals; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Romani, communists <br>NKVD collaborators <br>in captured territories <br>behind the advancing; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">German front lines<br>Nazi occupiers <br>were also aided <br>by a unit of native; <br> <br>Latvians known <br>as Arājs Commando<br>Latvian auxiliary police<br>Wehrmacht commanders; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">bolstered the strength <br>of the Einsatzgruppen <br>with regular-army troops<br>whenever required.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Latvia July 29,1941<br>forty mental patients <br>from Lódz in Poland<br>are taken from hospital; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">executed in nearby forest<br>July 31,1941 Hermann <br>Göring instructs SS Reich <br>Security Service chief; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reinhard Heydrich <br>to evacuate eliminate <br>all European Jews <br>in German-held territory; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Göring's letter mentions <br>'complete solution' <br>to European Jewry<br>Jews purified in death; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">July 1941 Germans <br>establish a Jewish <br>ghetto at Dvinsk Latvia<br>July-August 1941; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jews are murdered <br>by the tens of thousands<br>throughout western <br>Soviet Union Lithuania; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Romania and Latvia <br>who are the murders? <br>German Einsatzgruppen<br>Romanian troops militia; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ukrainian peasants<br>Lithuanian civilians<br>August 1941 German <br>slaughter of Jews; <br> <br>at Cesis Latvia<br>is celebrated<br>by German troops <br>security police; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">celebrate with <br>a Totenmahl <br>'death banquet'<br>August 1941; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in Belgium <br>collaborationist <br>military <br>organization; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Legion Wallonie <br>Wallonian Legion<br>is established<br>September 29-30 1941; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Babi Yar Kiev <br>Soviet Ukraine <br>33,771 Jews<br>killed in two days; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">by SS and German <br>police units <br>November 30 and <br>December 8 1941; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at Rumbula forest <br>near Riga Latvia <br>25,000 Jews<br>killed in two days; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Einsatzgruppen <br>will murder <br>over one million <br>people in occupied; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">territories the first <br>Nazi organized <br>policy mass killing <br>of European Jews. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br>See also The Holocaust Files!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q>
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