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Orthodox Church during the II World War. >>

On 2 August 1941 the USSR State Committee of Defence issued a decree on the creation of a Latvian Infantry Division. At the time the division was formed up to 90% of the fighters were residents of Latvia, 20% of them being of local Russian minority origin. >>

Vladimir Busko, was arrested for actively participating in the trade union movement in 1940 and 1941. >>

Milentina Rumyantseva participated in the anti-Nazi underground. >>

The beginning of the German occupation was marked by a terrible tragedy for the Jewish population of Latvia. >>

The village of Audriņi in Eastern Latvia, populated chiefly by Russian Old Believers, was burnt in January 1942 by local collaborators, and 215 of its inhabitants were shot. >>

Nazis forcefully removed to Latvia the population from the occupied front-line regions of Russia and Byelorussia. >>

Salaspils Concentration Camp, one of the largest places of incarceration and mass killing of people in the Baltic. >>

Latvia as part of the Reichskommissariat Ostland. There was no talk of a free Latvia. The local population was supposed to be partially Germanized or moved to the occupied eastern territories. Map of Ostland. >>