The Final Reckoning: How Latvia Dealt with Nazi Collaborators
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In late 1941, as Nazi Germany expanded deep into the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa, the Holocaust entered a new and devastating phase in the occupied Baltic states. In Latvia, the Jewish population of Riga was confined to a sealed ghetto while German occupation authorities, assisted by local collaborators, prepared one of the largest mass shootings of the Second World War. This documentary examines the events that unfolded in the Rumbula Forest near Riga on 30 November and 8 December 1941, when approximately 25,000 Jewish men, women, and children from the Riga Ghetto were killed over the course of two days. It explores how the operation was planned, the role of SS commander Friedrich Jeckeln and Einsatzgruppe A, and the participation of the Arājs Kommando under Viktors Arājs in carrying out the killings. The film follows the establishment of the Riga Ghetto, the deception used to convince residents they were being relocated, and the systematic process that unfolded in the fo
Tags: World History, Rumbula 1941, Einsatzgruppen, Riga ghetto, Heinrich Himmler, German SS, Friedrich Jeckeln, Babi Yar, Hinrich Lohse, Alfred Rosenberg, Rumbula Forest, German SD, Max Kaufmann, Arājs Kommando, Viktors Arājs, Herberts Cukurs, Frida Michelson, Elle Madale, Matīss Lutriņš, Second World War
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