Latvian Legion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- During the Second World War many tragic events took place in Latvia, influencing all Latvian inhabitants -- two occupations, holocaust, mobilization in foreign armies, mass deportations, where Latvia lost 1/3rd of its population. One of those tragic historical events is Latvian Legion.
Documentary "Latvian Legion" (script by historian Uldis Neiburgs) tells about the beginning of Latvian Legion, about the battles it fought and about Legion's contradictious evaluation nowadays. The film is based on the range of documentary newsreels, interviews with ex-legionnaires and views of historians.
The film is emotional but at the same time objective view about the events in Latvia during the Second World War. Every person remembering the disasters of the war remembers his own pain and tragedy. Hebrews remember the holocaust, Russians -- their burnt villages. Latvians remember the battles fought in the foreign armies where brother fought against brother, father -- against his son. This is the tragedy of a small nation in the times when two powerful enemies demonstrated their strength. The aim of the film is to explain what Latvian Legion is, how and why it was created.
The film "Latvian Legion" was made by a film studio "Devini" in 2000 with a support from the Ministry of Defence of Latvia.
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A valuable documentary. Helping to understand the senseless, heartbreaking tragedy. I'm afraid influencers of today may lead us into similar destruction. There are always people who think themselves gods toying with nations,and humanity. The warnings of history are there.
Its slanted against NS Germany, who was defending Europe.
@@clovergrass9439Disgusting liar! There were no threats on Germany!
There is no excuse for Germany's attack of peaceful neighbours!
FU🖕🏻
Ļoti stipra filma, viela pārdomām...
BROLIUKAI LATVIAI..,pas mus panašiai... ir panšūs mūsų likimai...ir dabar mums nelengva...būkim vieningi ir padėkim vieni kitiems...LAI DZIVUOJ LIETUVA, LATVIJA, ESTIJA
IR TE PADEDA MUMS DIEVAS....
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Слава России.
@@peterp1573кацаб
🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAINI🇺🇦
Realy heart breaking ending.
My great grandfather was sent to Syberia too for no reason and when he was returning home about 4km away from his home he died on a train. A friend who was with him made it to his home and told my great grandmother that they were in labor camps, where they were forced to work in inhumane conditions, beaten, fed realy bad and dressed poorly. And grandfathers body just gave up.
*In 1918 latvian red shooter batallion fully destroyed the town of Yaroslavl in Russia,just because its citizens were against bolsheviks*
No one cares..@@piligrimm2
@@piligrimm2 .. спасибо, что знаете и помните 👍‼️
@@VitaTarm*конечно, это чтоб потом у вас не было вопросов " а нас за что".*
@@hellome4219 отвали
My God so much tragic!! Nobody cares of the people when socopath leaders fights, my heart goes out to those old men and women. Thank you for sharing!
I once knew a man that served with the Latvian Legion and was decorated with the Iron Cross in 1944. His name was Ansis Maurins. He passed away a few years ago, he was a fine man.
Hitler was also a wonderful man who loved animals. Goebbels was a wonderful family man.😂
He was a Jews killer.
My great grandparents were shot and killed as they tried to flee Riga during WW2. They were Russian Jews who were born and raised in Latvia. Both sides suffered. The Latvians suffered at the hand of the Red Army and the Russians suffered at the hands of Latvians,Nazis,Stalin.
That's a fair comment. A friend of my late father here in the UK served on German U boats. He was Latvian. He fled communism after WW2 like many other people from the Baltic states. We had Poles, Ukrainians and 'white russians' here in my then small home town. He , my fathers friend hated the jews with a passion , as jews proliferated in the NKVD when Bolshevism/communism invaded the Baltic states. This is well documented even by jewish sources now.
@@peteb8556 Blaming the Jews for Communism, when even Stalin ejected them from the party. Why dont you just admit you are a Jew hating racist yourself?
@@TheJollyColonel ; an anti-semite is someone the jews hate. Do some feck'n reading up on history. Just how many countries have the jews been expelled from ? Hell, even Jesus Christ couldn't pacify that lot.
@@peteb8556 well 1st of many jews were disproportinately represented on the communist side because the communists falsely promised to do away with antisemetism who were the jews supposed to join the antisemetic latvians or lithuanians or poles or ukrainians or white russias....why would you even make a comment like that i response to somebody who mentions his paifull family legacy ...whats your point?that the jews had it coming to them when the latvians later on helped the gemans put the jews in the ground because they were commie sympathisers ? are you trying to sanitise latvian history...people should own there history honestly and responsibly and with no guilt but allso with no obfuscation the latvians like many other peoples aquitted themselves badly during the holocaust ...secondly the red army were pigs and what soviets tried to do in the baltics was disgusting so fuck them as well ...thirdly the soviets opressed man jews either for being petit bourgeousie small shopkeepers or for being religous or zionist or any of the 1000 other random reason stalinists had for persecuting people many jews just like non jews who were sent to siberia after the soviet occupation of the baltics and poland because they were considered to be class enemys or contra revolutionarys or whatever other trumped up shit the reds came with ...were lucky enough to survive the holocast due to this act of stalinist terror ...number 4 during the beginning of the cheka the forerunner of the nkvd wich was headed by a pole there was allso an overrepresentation of latvians....so as you see all ethnicitys had a period where they were overrepresented the soviet death machinery but nobody bangs on about latvians in the checka...as i said the founder of the cheka the nkvds forerunner was a pole dzehrzinsky ...i bet you if he was a jew one wouldnt hear the end of it ..and i repeat the jews in many eastern european countrys like ukraine poland and in baltic lithuania i wont talk about latvia because im less familiar with them .they were opressed and persecuted and communism promised to alleviate that ...the comunists were willing to accept jews into there ranks .had ukrainians poles lithuanians refrained from fucking the jews constantlt there would have been less of a disproportionate trend towards communism ..have a good night
Stalin did not have Nazis.😂
(Sorry for bad English I'm Latvia and used Google translate) My grandfather was 16 when Soviets took over Latvia. My great grandfather was 35. My big grandfather rebelled against the Soviets and was sent to Solovka for 10 years. My grandfather joined the Nazis when they took over. He moved to the western front and was took by French soldiers. He was sent to POW camp and one of the doctors regretted him because he was only 19 at that time. He was diagnosed with pneumonia (in fact he was not)
and was sent to the field hospital. After the war he was allowed to return to Daugavpils.
Both of them should have been sh-ot!! Both na_zi 🐀! May they rest in hell for all eternity!! 🐀 🐀
I am so thankful and blessed to have lived in freedom my entire life. I do not take it for granted.
Ok..so you are actively opposing the gouvernments covid restrictions right now?
These men are heroes to me
Huh
Wehrmacht and SS paved the way for murderers...
They fought the evils of communism they are heroes
They were still murderers as they killed many innocent people just because they were Jewish and they were anti semtic and racist and willingly took part in the Holocaust. How can you justify the murder of innocent men, women, children, and even babies and still call them heroes when they did such horrible and unspeakable things.
RESPECT AND LOVE FOR LATVIA❤
Respect and love for Germany
Idc
Very good film. Non biased or judgemental. Thanks
My grandfather served the 5th Company of the 33rd Grenadier Regiment, 15th Latvian SS division. Rest In Peace to all those who died under Soviet Terror.
Yikes. Your grandfather was a nazi collaborator? Those who died under "Soviet Terror" were fascists and their collaborators and of course you're mad at them for ending the Nazi Terror.
My father fought in WW2 with the Latvian Legion, while his father and brother were Forrest Brothers
zedster911 amazing! was he in the battle of Jelgava by any chance?
Same here... Exactly same
The consequences of war year through the hearts and minds of all who experience it. I remember as a small boy listening to the old diggers from WW1. Grey sagging old faces contorted by their terrible memories. My parents, my mother the same contorted face as her memories quickly resurfaced, thinking of her school friends killed during the London blitz. My father would always look down with a heavy brow, a you man in the British parachute regiment. Uncles their families their friends all the same look. Today men of my generation Vietnam again the same despairing glazed eyes. There are no rules, no morals in war, only death.
These stories are so interesting and dramatic, it feels like I'm watching a great movie
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well done . quite eye opening
I recently purchased some german war relics dug up in Latvia for my ww2 collection. That said I have been researching the war in that region. I must say that the Latvian people were just as devostated by the war as the Polish. It's heartbreaking that these peacefull,working people were thrown into the conflict of the two worst dictator's in history Hitler/Stalin. May God bless the people of Latvia
Yes, my Latvian brother. Soviet communist NKVD exterminated Latvian elite the same as they did to Polish elite in Katyn. Over 100,000 executed in mass graves only because they were Polish and Catholic. About 2 million shipped to Gulags to die slow deaths. No mercy. This is how Satan works.
You must not have heard of Mao
@@mojkanal1618
Maybe you should read properly wha facts were around Ktyn ?
Basically you heard from someone, but you have no knowledge abiut Katyn.
the first word war was prepared since 1880 by Cecil Rhodes etc. go and read GERRY DOCHERTY ON THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WORLD WAR ONE. Both wars where planed years ahead from all sides.
@@tokyo.peking katyn is a very well known massacre and there was a Russian that was there that told what really happened before he died
Such a sad story.
I wish all Lativians a deserved peaceful future
Hi Latvia
From scotland ♥️
Thanks for posting these informative videos.I'm a WW2 buff and really like to see videos of my homeland....
visu cieņu vīriem
Visu godu tiem cilvekiem kas,celas un Krita del Musu Latvijas!!!!
My grandfther was in legion in 16 division.He was injured in Cesvaine but he survive and get iron cross medal.
I live in cesvaine i know some graves who were destrojd after ww2 by communists. 16 division
3rd Gen Ria Jewish Latvian survivor here I know my history... God bless. Some of us survived, I owe that to my ancestors.
This makes a lot of sense, reflecting upon fathers condition, a refugee, 17 years of age, lost, intelligent but emotionally out of control.
I didn't believe a particular story about the loss of his brother, because of the way he behaved to us as children. In retrospect this film provides an understanding of his madness and horror upon us.
I am disappointed for his loss of home and real self, which we never got to have.
Tā nav divkosība,tas ir drausmīgs liktenis manai tautai..vēlos,lai tas nekad neatkārtotos,būsim gudri un stipri..
My father was in the 19 th Waffen Regiment(2nd Latvian ) and this video brought tears to my eyes. At 4:50 the man is being interviewed mentions Bukalti: this is ny grandfather's and father's farm in Dundaga. If anyone who is familiar with his name, please forward his info to me. He must know my family!
Braliukai!
What a nightmare, to be in the crossfire between Hitler and Stalin. To be killed before the war, during the war, then killed after the war. It happened all over Eastern Europe.
Slove Latvijos Legionui!!!
Song in beginning?
Anyone know the name of the song at 01:23 ?
So many perished to gain freedom and independence,
So many brave Latvian men bled and died for their country...
These days "Eh, this country has no future, it's tooooo hard to do anything, imma immigrate to somewhere else"
Now much of the smartest and talented youth have moved, making it hard to any meaningful change.
Much love & respect for all victims, never again. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Those faces in this video display so much experience, experience that was unwanted......Lai lietus asaras neaizskalo.......
Dievs svetij Latviju!
K
Dievi Svētī Latvju Zemi
@@autrimps yo
Вы просрали свою страну. Нет тут Бога.
A friend if mine's dad was in the Latvian Legion and relocated to Detroit after the war.
Mossad should get him.
@@mishacol He is long dead. He fought honorably on the eastern front against the Bolsheviks. Zionists are content to murder Palestinian children now instead of decrepit Waffen-SS veterans.
bēdīgi.. bet vienlaikus.. jā tie bija īsti vīri. Nevis tie sūdi kādus dažus tgd var manīt pa ielām staigājot.
No Austrumiem nāk tikai NĀVE....
Cheers from East Texas
Cheers from West TX...although my hometown is in SE TX (Baytown). 🇺🇲❤🇨🇱
damned if they did and damned if they didn't. i don't think they were nazis
They call those people is ‘nazi’ who is against themself (Soviet/Communism ).
they killed almost my entire family for being Jewish 🤨📸
Still hated Jews and participated willingly in killing them
:09 "the soros fund" that's all I needed to watch!
I saw that too but I'm not sure what to think as this film seems to exonerate all who participated. I have concern right now with NATO stacking troops on the Russian border. At least now I have some understanding of why the Latvians don't want the Russians to overrun them but personally I think the Russians are building up troops to counter NATO.
and it is very interesthing that all the prime crimals have survived from the so-called repressions and massacres but their so-called innocent relatives,neighbours etc are killed.What a bunch of bullshite, to cover up their crimes, and what a bunch of idiots (who gave over 300 hundreds thumbs up for this garbage) those who are ready to believe any sort of idiotic story to boost their anti-Soviet,anti-Russian hatred.
Me to, and all i needed to see and hear, and realised that in no way Latvians will be portrayed in any favourable light...
Latvija manuprat nav neviens kuram kads nav dienejis latviešu leģionā.
what a sick bullshit.
If 110,000 fought on the side of the fascists and in this SS Legion, then 100,000 fought against them as part of the Soviet Army.
@@Pilum1000 fascists? Latvian Legion never was in fascist army. Legion was in germany naciz army, but are not a nacizts. Like a Latvians ir red komunists army are not a comunists.
@@perferators there is not and never was there any significant difference between fascists and nazists - this is one ideology. They aren't only "some random allies". And the Latvian SS legion is - its practical part and bloody servarnts. I don't see any point in your speeches.
"Like a Latvians ir red komunists army are not a comunists." - wtf ? :> You are writing a gibberish and have got a permanent delirium. :))
@@Pilum1000 lol fascism is still better than red fascism. No one needed the soviet "liberation"
Nazis were the less evil amongst the two
Aleksandram V vai bija izvēle? Мои оба деда воивали за Росийскую империю, один в первую мировую латышским стрелком на острове смерти получил ранения и медаль Георгия 2 степени, потом пошол домой выучился и стал успешным прдпренимателем. В торова деда гитьеровцы призвали на службу он опздал на пять минут, жандарм его хотел разстрелять но бабушка стала на колени умаляла и его помиловали пасадили на вагон. Во время езды он и другой парень решили бежать с идущего поезда им подозрительный этот поезд , а у остольных был выбор. Потом прятался и заремел в красную армию, им делали какойто зомби укол и они небоялись идти в атаку первих касили вторые уже шли в рукапашную. Один раз командир сказал прыгай на меня, чтобы уберечся от пуль, дед возмутился и сказал ты что баба какаято чтобы на тебя прыгать. Он расказывал что зимой при минус 20 градусов земля горела и было жарко. Потом попал в плен к немцам и их гнали пешком 3-4 месяца есть недовали толька помои, один раз дошадь умерла и им кинули порвали кто чего мог. После похода дед среднего роста весел 38 кг, попал в концлагерь, повезло, на сахарный завод и крал под страхам смерти орезки сахорной свеклы, что помогло выжить себе и сокамерником 5-6чел. Потом их освободили и поставили на стол разный еды, незнали наверно что так нельзя многие наелись и умерли, желудок лопнул, дед сел все во лиш ложачку. Ну как уних был выбор. Потом им предложили 2 варианта или идти домой ногами самим зачем специально транспорт тратить, или ехать в Росию дома строить на год, ну дед решил строить. Бабушка получила от него и от радости решила приехать в госьти. Жили бедно но сголду не умирали, была коровка и с детства воспитана культура трудолюбия, а не рукожопства культивируемая идеологии СССР. Собрала в мишочек кувшиньчик с маслом с творгом и сметаной хлеб изпекли 3 буханочки, и поехал поездом через Москву пресела и там полный позд людей был большинство красноармейцы в формах, произашол момент по моему это вобще не делает чести там ни кому, ее обокрали оставили только кувшиньчик с творогам, ну обули ведь это так по советски, она подняла шум , приол какойто комендант и говорит ты что советских доблестных вонов обвиняеш со мной она сразу неугоманилась но ее кто то дернул и она понила и замолчала. Приехала к деду вся в слезах дед был щаслив , намазал на свой хлеб 300 г подслн. масло с картошкой и сэтим готинцем угостил бабушку. Если иньтересно могу прдолжение написать.
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насочинял ебать сколько особенно про укол и про творог со сметаной и холодильник за спиной 😃 давай жги еще
Anyone know how many Latvian 15th Waffen SS division survived?
A little late, but about 800 men under Vilis Janums managed to reach the Western allies, and 4500 Latvians (mostly the 15th, although some were probably from other units as well) also managed to escape the Soviets in 1945
My dad was one of the 800 who escaped
Latvia is the same as Lettonia right...?
Kur ir mūsu SS vīri,kad viņus vajag?!
35.00 мин после этого кто скажет чем отличался НКВД от фашистов, если толька апоненты ну поедти в гости и узнайте.
Bēdīgi.
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Just like the Finnish volunteers, the Latvian ss units were anticommunist
And like all SS were anti jew...
@@uncappedsmile6416 didn't say that
@@AR15SP1 You can't say they were anti-communist. When you're SS you are almost anti everything. If you support Latvian SS you are a facist.... Im Latvian and Russian, in case you wonder.
@@uncappedsmile6416 the Finnish unit was not
@@AR15SP1 If you were a part in any way of the German army... you were a fascist fighting for German fascism and not some freedom fighter who would liberate his country at end of ww2... that would be naive to believe.
What is the song at the end?
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Žēl, ka tik maz skatījumu.
Latvia got rid of almost all their Jews without the help of Nazis. Hitler was as proud of them as they were of themselves. Very few Jews who survived made the most unbelievable testimonies which I have heard from all of the Holocaust. And I have translated many.
Can people read them somewhere?
@@Miikri Museum "Jews in Latvia" - AEJM and mostly Yad Vashem Museum
Interesting why they did so ??? Any clues?? 😐
@@Miikri Dont believe any stories about their victimhood.
Док фильм
Латышские стрелки каратели
Легенды Латгалии аллоиз тропс тень императора
Литовиц о латгальском языке и истории
The first three seconds should tell it all - The SOROS FUND LATVIA financed that flick. Any more questions?
There are many unanswered questions about WW2. If the fact that majority communist bolsheviks were Jewish is introduced into equation then majority of questions are answered.
The Bolsheviks were predominately Jewish and not peasants! The dis-information is that it was a peasant/peoples uprising. It was led by the the elitist/educated/Anti-Imperialist and funded by American Bankers. In essence 240 thousand Communist took over a country of 140 million.
The Latvian Shooters were crusial in Petersburg for the Jewish Revolution of 1917 Withput them no 1917 Revolution.
@@hughvanderekuil4819 Incredible to read that moronic racists like you and the others above actually believe that shite. Communism wasn't a Jewish plot. Why did millions flea from Eastern European Anti-Semitism from 1880's until the baltic nations stopped it in the 1910's. Christian pogroms, regular slaughter of Jews throughout those times were common, including in orthodox Christian Russia. As for the poor Latvians, it was they who collaborated to mass murder their neighbours in 1941, indeed carrying out the mass murders before the German SS groups even arrived. What a vile racist you are to write this absolute nonsense full of vile lies. Should be ashamed. Lithuanians and even many Poles couldn't wait to have their local Jews killed. Got fuck all to do with Communism - you dont believe that at all, it just fits your vile agenda.
Great comment, apart from mine the best Ive seen here.
@@TheJollyColonel entirely jooish.
Great documentary. Dispassionate and sober point of view. Very helpful historical resource for a foreigner who tries to clarify Latvia's nazi issue. I had surprised (negatively) when i learned that there is such a day that honor Waffen SS veterans as heroes. I'm greek, and my country payed dearly nazi occupation. All humans who loved freedom, gave their lifes to fight against nazi brutality. A great fight was taking place in Russia, which would determine the future of the free world. The Allies and many brave partisans in all occupied Europe they were giving their blood in this fight against brutality. I understand their hatred for the Soviets. But blind for their hatred, they fought for nazi in a period that the fall of Eastern Front from nazis would define the future of Europe. And it's definitely sure that Latvia wouldn't be independent. Perhaps their motivations were noble, but in fact they didn't fight for Latvia's independence. They were one more gear in nazi war machine fighting for nazi's cruel purposes. They were not nazis nor heroes. As the documentary concludes, they were victims. Victims of a tragic historical period. Latvians who treat them as a heroes, they should think more. What the heroic has the cooperation with nazis? If the Eastern Front would fall, nazis will dominate Europe. And we all know what does it means. Latvians would see the hated Russians defeated. But they would participate by fighting for nazis at the Eastern Front in the enslavement of millions of people. They cooperated with nazis in a war with no tomorrow for Latvia and a cruel tomorrow for the rest of the world.
Of course the Latvian soldiers that fought for the Nazis were victims , but 16th March isn't a day were Latvians honor the Waffen SS veterans. Latvians honor the men that fought in the Latvian legions and tried with their life's to save our nation from the evil that was coming. Even if Latvia had stayed under the Nazi power the suffering wouldn't have been so big for the Latvian people as it was.
Edvards Celmins On that day, however, present many lumpen neo-fascist anti-Semitic elements in the events. Any coexistence and common course with them is culpability. Also, the Latvian Legion -don't forget-, was part of the Waffen SS and not a standalone army. And what do you mean "the evil that was coming"? Latvia was already under Nazi occupation, thousands of Jews had already been murdered. The evil had been already hurt Latvia, or you do not recognize it as such? The veterans in the interview here, say it clearly. They responded to the call of the Nazis to prevent a second Russian occupation. What kind of freedom they would win under Nazi occupation? Given that nationalism in Latvia and hatred for Russian population is strong, I'm pretty suspicious of these events. I'm not saying that Latvians honor Nazis (except of lumpen Neo-Nazis who they do). But Latvian historical consciousness, however, is very moderate on Nazis. And this is not healthy. Better today to remember these times as a tragedy for Latvian nation, than honor as a heroes people who joined to their country's conqueror most deadly troops to fight for nation's "freedom". Does it make any sense actually this argument?
iapet0s I wasn't writing to argue with you. I wrote this so maybe you have misunderstood that Latvians don't honor Nazis we honor the soldiers that fought in the Latvian division 15 and 19th division. 16th March in 1944 was a day when a battle was won against the Bolsheviks by the river Velikaja high point 93.4 was retaken by the two Latvian divisions with out any other division participation.
I am saying that for the Latvian ethnic group great evil was coming as USSR destroyed many family's, deported and shot Latvians. The numbers of how many Latvians suffered from this are more than 2x bigger than how many jewish Latvians suffered trough the war.
Edvards Celmins "Does it make any sense actually this argument?"
Probably you misunderstood the word "argument". I don't think that we are wrangling. I mean that your argument that they fought for nation's freedom, in fact is paradox whatever their motivations. But anyway.
"16th March in 1944 was a day when a battle was won against the Bolsheviks by the river Velikaya high point 93.4 was retaken by the two Latvian divisions with out any other division participation. "
It's actually like this as you said, or on 16th March they honor in general Latvian Waffen SS veterans for their sacrifices in fighting against Red Army?
Look, to be clear. I don't consider Latvian Legion as a nazi ideology Units. Even in the Nuremberg Tribunal has been clarified this. But it's a very sensitive issue, specially for the rest of Europeans. Plus the fact of the presence of many neo-fascists on that day, the whole story gets more confused. I think Latvian's nationalism confuses the things. Personally, i understand their pain and hatred for Soviets after first (brutal) occupation. They took their decisions in dark times. But i can't see them as heroes. I see them as history's victims. Latvia's nationalism needs heroes, and they are found on their faces with a not very healthy way, cause history is concealed.
iapet0s More or less I have to agree with you. But talking a bit off the topic Nuremberg trial was not the only trial for the Nazis. For example there was a Riga trial , where if I am not mistaken 6 or 3 Nazis were hanged with out any trial and they had not so much harm as for example Albert Speer who was sentenced 20 years in jail. I know it's off the topic , but thought it's interesting to mention something like this as the USSR had no line were to stop and think. Not saying that these Nazis were not guilty , but something to think about.
Nedrīkst tādu lietu aizmirst, jābūt modriem un vienotiem.
Arī svarīga tēma ir latviešu žīdu liktenis Latvijā otrā pasaules kara laikā, absolūti traģiskas lietas notika
Military units paved the way for crimes, and soldiers could not say that they did not know about the crimes committed against the population.
Many Latvians were indeed complicit in the Holocaust either by taking part in or organizing mass shootings or ratting out Jewish people to the Nazis. They like several Eastern Europeans such as Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Russians were deeply complicit in the Holocaust and the Nazis probably wouldn’t have been as successful without the help of local collaborators.
George Soros explaining history. lol.
Antisémite?
@@laurentcherrier8492Yes 😎
Skatos uz savu komentāru pirms 2 gadiem,nekas nav mainījies,darbs Aizsardzības Ministrijai
Katram bija sava taisniba.
"прослушав военную присягу,нас это не связывало потому что нам эта идеология была не приемлима" это как понимать?
That's a lot of smoke coming from an army which is filled with soldiers singing Zem Musu Kajam :3
What's wrong with that song?
It's such an enormous shameful tragedy that the US government used the resources of the US people to provide enormous military resources of all description from food, to ammunition, to guns, to vehicles virtually every type of material that could be used militarily to supply Stalin, and the Red Army; and to do so without any restriction, or .supervision of who it was used upon. The basic objective of the Allies was to defeat Germany, and Japan as swiftly as possible without any regard to the consequences of Stalinist Russia during, or after the war.
The allies were entirely run by international jewry.
Šaunuolei LATVEI ŠAUNUOLEI BRALIUKAI. LAI DZYVUOJ TAUTŲ DRAUDZYBA.
Based Lativian troops in just got one of there ww2 helmets
Hail and respect to SS Latvia there are hero not terrorist who fight evil name communist the only terrorist person is josef staline who killed 25 million person including 10 million Russian , but why some Latvian people fight in the side of soviet union
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Вас больше нет
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My great grandfather and his brother got put to death by the Nazi SS soldiers. USSR sent great grandmother to Siberia in death camp
Latvia needs to address the role they played in the treatment of the Jews in WW2
and what do russia need to address? nothing??????
@@CielPhantomhiveXx i said latvia- i'm not defending putin - you eastern europeans need to start facing the help you gave the nazis in the holocaust
@@gareththomas6714 and now the israeli government is doing the same to palestinian people, but you will probably deny that
@@CielPhantomhiveXx did he motherfucking say russia needs to adress nothing ? of course they do but this is a film about latvia that sidesteps quite a bit ...sanitising the past ..
@@drerri hey so first off yeah israel needs to adress its past with the palestinians ...but what does israel have to do with latvias role in the holocaust ?are you daft ?the jews in latvia killed by krauts and there latvian helpers werent israelis they never met a palestinian...israel didnt even exist back then ....are u blaming latvian jews retroactively for there own murder because of what israeli jews did to palestinians? u r really stupid
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Not always
@@martinskislers9780 in this case and of other Balts dealing with the Soviets this is true.
What the Latvian people think about Germany, when they heard about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Red Army plus the NKVD arrived? More exactly what they thought about the Nazi Germany and Hitler. And what they thought after 22 of June? Maybe (surely) they hated the Bolsheviks, but they didn't hate the Germans and didn't fear them. What did they think when Hitler attacked Poland, France, Belgium... and so on. Were they happy? Did any Litvanians think seriously that they would get independence from Germany? Did they think seriously that the USA and GB would save them from the Soviet Union? How simple to say these words: independence, I wanted to survive...,, I obeyed to the order... Not a single word on atrocities against the Jewish people, against the simple bolsheviks. The simple Litvanians only fought for their independence and never committed any crime or cruelty. But a lot of lamentation on Latvians who were completely innocent, they had no responsibility for nothing.
For Land For fucks sake... please watch the video.
Great Post Peter
What in the world are you on about?
The reality is that nearly all Latvians greeted the germans as liberators, women would spread their legs to german soldiers and many men joined the SS. Why? Like the Ukrainian Holdomor, Latvians experience in 1.25 years the brutal horror of Jewish communism (starting with wealth confiscation), the NKVD and the tyranny living in a state of communist rule. Many men were shot or sent to siberia for trivial offenses, some for crticizing jews. Others for supporting the christian church. Christanity was obliterated. When i was a kid, a old Latvian immigrant down the street from me told me about the brutal russo-german fighting; some of it unimaginable. Vietnam and 2 Iraq wars were picnics to this conflict. After the 2war all of these survivors lead normal lives. I think the PTSS that these veterans are excuses to get the generous benefits on the dole. Poor baby!??
The latvians greeted them because they were tired of the soviets and they saw germans as the only hope for freedom, and actually most of the latvians were forced to join the SS, and if you dont believe that they were forced - my great-grandfather went behind a bush saw the nazis putting latvians in trucks to get sent off to the legion.
to Adam P The first part of your comment was excellent but the later was PATHETIC, my father fought at the battle of the bulge and yes he went on to live a life but it was not normal. The difference between the World war veterans and the wars you referred to was the World Wars had real combatants, real armies that were identified as such in the other wars you were fighting everyone and you couldn't tell the difference between the soldier or non combatant and it fucks you up when you have to kill women and children because you can't tell the difference and also the World War veterans believed they were fighting for their country the others had no idea what they were fighting for. To bad you could not have been there so maybe you wouldn't be such pathetic little know it all prick.
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And also he was in kurland last battles
A part off the SS.
There had never been a pogrom in Latvia until the Germans invaded. There had been plenty in Russia before then - thanks Russia and Germany.
??? Latvians and Lithuanians participated willingly in torturing and killing Jews in their tens of thousands. SS in some areas numbered only 10-12, so locals did the rest.
@@TheJollyColonelthat is indeed true. Latvians and Lithuanians along with Russians, Belorussians, Estonians, and Ukrainians and several other Europeans were deeply complicit in the Holocaust and willingly took part in it. The Nazis often weren’t physically present in many areas such as rural communities and so they often let local people do their murderous work for them either by killing Jewish people outright or handing them over to the Nazis. Therefore the Nazis may not have been as successful in their murderous plans without the help of local collaborators.
Soros Fund ?????
15:25 Huh, I never know Brock Lesnar ever Joined Latvian SS Legion before
Убитые горем перешли на "безукоризненный " инглиш , чтоб донести свою боль всему миру.
Уезжай в россию,тебя никто не держит
Чубатэ , не обольщайся , ты у этой публики тоже не котируешься.
@@ablever12 я еврей,котируюсь)
@@evgeniismolianskii2312 абажур ...по любому
@@ablever12 не понимаю ваши вырожения клуба хазейров
ss kapud dra la la
4:05 who is this person?
Augusts Kirhenšteins
Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen, via this film.
It must have been a painful odyssey to recollect such memories and to recount them; they only echo the evilness of Hitler and his followers.
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
"He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
Hitler was fighting evil and lost. It was an ideologic war of nature based National Socialism versus tyrannical judeo bolshevism.
@@clovergrass9439 Hitler WAS the evil, so I guess this is sort of correct - he did take out the face of this evil on 1945, after all...
@@clovergrass9439 I hate both of you
@@clovergrass9439 Hitler murdered not only Jews and communists...
@@TakAndrzejPolakboth very much deserving, but they were the same thing
Так я не понял, Латвийские легионеры СС воевали на стороне нацистов
вместе с Гитлером за свободную Латвию? Или у них не было выбора, как
говорится в начале видео? И еще вопрос, а стоила ли такая борьба сотен тысяч жизней женщин, детей, стариков, погибших от голода во время блокады Ленинграда. Ведь эти смерти на их плечах.
Kad aizvedīs ģimeni uz Sibīriju tad sāksi domāt, pagaidām tu tēlo ka neko nesaproti.
@@andrisgavars6990 У меня дед - латыш сам в Сибирь поехал после войны и строил там железную дорогу, потому что тут в Латвии работы не было, только торф копать. И ничего, вернулся, жену оттуда привез. А вы только ныть можете о прошлом, да пытаться оправдать преступления нацистов. Противно. Лучше бы работали, да страну поднимали.
@@aleksandrsv.1465 pats nečīksti, draudziņ... varbūt tev tādas izvešanas un vispār caru asiņainas iegribas un izdarības ir ikdiena... latviešiem tā nav, mēs atceramies savu pagātni un tos, kuri mums darījuši ļaunu, un tos, kuri mūs ir sargājuši
@@aleksandrsv.1465 так это работать надо 😎 легче цветами торговать и танцевать
@@aleksandrsv.1465 Пока что ты один ноешь 🤷
История нечему неучит,
* С чего это вы взяли?*
@@parvaldegalvena8775 из происходящей действительности, в Литве скинхеды, у вас бывшие эсесовцы маршируют, по брусчатке, и т.д. чем это закончится, плохое не может длится вечно.
@@kolesnikov.krd123 *А ни думали бы вы дорогой товарищЪ, о том что вам попросту промывают мозги?Например мои корни тут жили на Балтике ,еще не было таких государств,мы старорускии люди,тут в Латвии все преуспеывало до 1940 года.А уж про " эсесовцев",то вы оскорбляете рабту НкВд, гРу ССр и КГБ, все они давно " кто кровью замазан , червей кормят,даже Цукурса Ми6 грохнуло без суда и следствия.У меня предки вписаны в зал славы Победы,так вот один из них войну закончил в зыанииПодполковника,другой в возрасте 14 ти лет, был забран " вермахтом" с нашими лошадьми.По итогам он бежал через 3 ри месяца вернулся,потом они " лес рубили -оба до 1953 года, потом реабелетировали.Так что встречались 16 марата всегла все балтийскии " служаки", а уже " пропаганлисты ыаши все раздули".Вот и подумайте, может прежде ,надо было из " сока выбратса да может самим посмотреть!*
@Gincha90 taa vajag :p
The Latvian legion, as were, the other Baltic Legions, freedom fighters, fighting the evils of Soviet communism and oppression....
Fukt all around
@arnisivans23 Ko te spamo? :D
Каратели
Прибалты признавали только силу, в своей истории всегда прислуживали
тому , кто сильнее. Самостоятельной политики у них никогда не было.
Даже рабскую психологию, преподносят как национальную гордость.
Ты кусок дерьма. Посмотрите сейчас на свою собственную "великую державу" и скажите, что вы достойны того, чтобы прокомментировать этих солдат в ролике.
@@figurehead3021 Это обычные каратели
No fuck off russian, that's the only evil in the world right now, and russians have always been underdeveloped and backwards society
Док фильм
Латышские стрелки каратели
Легенды Латгалии аллоиз тропс тень императора
Литовиц о латгальском языке и истории
@@figurehead3021ты сам дерьмо немецкий халуй рабы великих народов Ригу построили немцы а вы что построили ничего Россия империя а вы никто
The Nurenberg courts in which leaders committed to national-socialism were tried, based their sentences on 1- The use of a resource expressly prohibited in the Justice of any country: to judge and apply sentences based on a legislation created expressly with after the alleged crime. 2- give as valid self-incriminating testimony obtained by torture. 3- Absolute partiality in the analysis of evidence and testimonies. 4- Do not consider extenuating circumstances of any kind.
NUERENBERG'S TRIALS WERE A LEGAL AND ETHICAL ABERRATION WITH A SINGLE PURPOSE: TO ELIMINATE THE NAZISM OF RAIZ, BLAME HIM FOR ATROCITIES NEVER DEMONSTRATED, TO COLLECT WAR REPAIRS, TO COVER THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY THE CELEBRATED FALLS AND DEFENSE ALLIES .
Slava Ukrainai,viņiem grŪTák?
Нет такого государства
too bad this isn't dubbed in english..then i would wach it.
ps im latvian.
where?
I said. ''Too bad it's not 'dubbed',''
What?
+lps amanda if u are Latvian why do u need dubbed in English, u don't understand a word
Yeah..."This was not me, it was a one armed men..." - oldest excuse in the book. Yes Soviet occupation was very bad. Stalin and its NKVD have committed a lot of crimes against Baltic people, but it does not excuse going and, actually, within Waffen SS when they could actually see what SS was doing. There is a WW2 report found in Germany made by a Wehrmacht commander, I believe in 1943, that requested to resettle Latvian Waffen SS units away from the regular Wehrmacht units, because the atrocities that Latvian SS was committing at the front against civilians and PODs were so horrible that it has seriously affected regular German soldiers morale. So, if someone in Latvia wants to white wash their murderous relatives and the history, they have another thing coming. WORLD DOES REMEMBER!!! This film is a DISGRASE. SHAME!!!
I am Latvian born,everything here, the hole topic makes mi sick
nacisti un fašisti
“The Baltic Waffen S. S. Units (Baltic Legions) are to be considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities, and qualifications for membership from the German S.S., and therefore the Commission holds them not to be a movement hostile to the Government of the United States under Section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act, as amended. Harry N. Rosenfield
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Latvian surviving SS legionaries march through Riga every year, to commemorate their sacrifice in service to Nazi Germany. On these parades they are joined by their contemporary ideological successors from Latvian ruling class. For these people 8/9th of May is not a good day.
“The Baltic Waffen S. S. Units (Baltic Legions) are to be considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities, and qualifications for membership from the German S.S., and therefore the Commission holds them not to be a movement hostile to the Government of the United States under Section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act, as amended." Harry N. Rosenfield
@@a10warthog4 So, for the US (or to mr Rosenfield specifically) some Nazis are of a good sort. Sadly, this is old news.
To paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt: they may be Nazis, but they are our Nazis.
they are perceived as guardians of homeland... don't pull things out of context... before creation of Latvian Legion there was occupation of Latvia by USSR and year of red terror... Latvian Legion has nothing to do with Nazi ideology, which was actually acknowledged by Germans themselves... btw, they haven't fought in Western front, only against russian communists... and march through Riga is to commemorate their fallen comrades and service to people of Latvia... nothing to do with Hitler or Nazism
@@bentos117 They were nazi collaborators, that's the context. Some of the worst crimes were committed by these 'guardians of homeland'.
In neighbouring Belarus, since the war, parents used to scare their kids saying that 'Latvian' (not 'German'!) will come and get them if they won't go to bed on time.
New, independent, Latvia seeks to reaffirm its sovereignty by undermining anything Russian, because it (perhaps rightfully) fears gravitating towards it politically. These Nazi collaborators represent the only anti-Russian part of Latvian history, so Latvia embraces it for the lack of better options. Ties to Nazis are being desperately denied, ignoring well-recorded history and common sense.
@@donhippone8437are the current russian men that are in Ukraine nazi collaborators because they have been called to war and they haven't refused?
Пропаганда и перепись истории.
Да это русские умеют переписать историю и пиздеть
The pot calling the kettle black
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