tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13134987063524876872024-03-18T16:25:18.609-07:00Stop the 16 March marches in Riga!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1313498706352487687.post-21780662941260697862021-02-16T08:03:00.138-08:002021-05-24T04:57:40.646-07:00A Message from Dr Efraim Zuroff, February 16 2021- Chief Nazi Hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Director of the Center's Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs.
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Add your voice to this petition here:</b><div><br /><div><div><a href="https://www.petitions.net/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"> https://www.petitions.net/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div> This message is being written on February 16, a month before the date of the annual march of veterans of the Latvian S.S. in the heart of Riga. A somewhat similar march, one of neo-fascists and Lithuanian nationalist extremists, was scheduled to take place today, which is one of the country's two independence days. February 16 marks the independence achieved in 1918, which is "celebrated" by a march in Kaunas (Kovno), which was the interwar capital of Lithuania, whereas on March 11, the local neo-Nazis and sympathizers march in the current capital Vilnius (Vilna) to mark the independence achieved in 1990. Hopefully, none of these events will be taking place this year as scheduled due to Covid-19 restrictions. </div><div><br /></div><div> The reason that I am mentioning the marches in Lithuania, in conjunction with the S.S. veterans march in Riga, is because all three are inspired by the same misguided extremist patriotism and sustained by the fake historical narratives created and promoted since independence by the Lithuanian and Latvian governments. They are ostensibly held to honor the brave patriots who volunteered to fight for independence against the oppressive Soviet regime, but in reality glorify anti-Semites, some of whom were active participants in the annihilation of their Jewish citizens and other Jews.</div><div><br /></div><div> So let's present the facts. The Latvian Legion fought in the framework of the Waffen-SS, Heinrich Himmler's army, for a victory of the Third Reich, the most genocidal regime in human history. Its defenders prefer to ignore that cardinal fact, and insist that all the men were fighting only for Latvian independence. The problem with that contention is that the Nazis had absolutely no intention of granting independence to any of the Baltic countries, regardless of whatever assistance they provided, whether it was in murdering Jews or joining the battles against the Red Army.</div><div><br /></div><div> A second argument is that the Legion did not participate in the murder of Jews. That is partially true, since the units were established after most Latvian Jews had already been murdered. Yet what is always omitted by the Legion's defenders, is that among the men who joined the Latvian Legion, were many mass murderers of Jews from the notorious Arajs Kommando mass murder squad and the Latvian SD, hardly individuals worthy of any honors.</div><div><br /></div><div> A third argument is that the men who served in the Legion paved the way for Latvian independence in 1990, but that too is of course totally baseless, since their service for the Nazis did not achieve any progress towards freedom, which was only obtained when the Soviet union crumbled. In fact, had the Nazis won World War II, the Latvians would most likely still be subjugated, but by the Germans not the Soviets. </div><div><br /></div><div> All of the above are good reasons why we should be very glad that such events will not be held this year or ever after. </div><div><br /></div><div> Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Director of the Center's Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs.</div><div><br /></div><div> Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel office and Eastern European Affairs
Coordinator, SWC Nazi war crimes research worldwide
www.operationlastchance.org</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>UPDATE 09.03.2021</b></div><div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltictimes.com%2Forganizers_of_march_16_events_have_withdrawn_their_applications_due_to_epidemiological_situation%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0M0Q8P3obP5vF5v5LdWg614lGS5F65h8hL75QbNDlgEapGHMqIuy3fE34&h=AT0Kj3XQKDQgirwEHCHmu9V0EcioEfxM1MNplb-5X33Pnp0Lom8W1X8C2cCHa4i1Ot4REbjyb9MOodKkP6xAtyCGABpaRg02Hi_VniL1x7Ouz4FZ1mtytOpPGqnmTbKbLtd6&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1xR8Feta9Hd8DHf44XGjnwpZDWCklQrGXyYnF-EQDs5dTgGFd3UHrZvrriMb45klvuvFXHoEDImLZsfG5v5C4G5ctYEqLzPbojUpd_u3SefBpBhRxmX-AGHmp-IHthF_DT" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.baltictimes.com/organizers_of_march_16.../</a></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Organisers of March 16 events have withdrawn their applications due to epidemiological situation- the organisers of this SS glorification march should withdraw due to historical facts, recognising that glorifying any SS detachment in the 21st century is unacceptable. To maintain that anyone who protests against this march is working together with the Russian government is ridiculous. Thousand s of people worldwide protest each and every year against the SS march in Riga, they are ordinary people who come from all over the world, they have two things in common: historical truth and common sense. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><b>Flemish town erects monument honouring Latvian SS!</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/belgium/flemish-town-erects-monument-for-latvian-ss/&source=gmail&ust=1615407610715000&usg=AFQjCNFORW8T4Gwfe_Gmr29xMrfYUhJiqw" href="https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/belgium/flemish-town-erects-monument-for-latvian-ss/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://eurojewcong.org/news/<wbr></wbr>communities-news/belgium/<wbr></wbr>flemish-town-erects-monument-<wbr></wbr>for-latvian-ss/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://defendinghistory.com/latvian-waffen-ss-worshippers-have-set-up-a-monument-in-belgium/105969">https://defendinghistory.com/latvian-waffen-ss-worshippers-have-set-up-a-monument-in-belgium/105969</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>UPDATE 17.03.2021</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>No march went ahead.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>For further reading please see:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Formation of a New Historical Memory or the Whitewashing of Nazism in Latvia with photographs of the marches</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>by Victor Gushchin The Baltic Centre of Historical and Socially Political Studies</div><div><a href="goog_269029367"><br /></a></div><div><a href="https://rurik.se/wp-content/uploads/KNIGA-3-28-01-18-PRINT-2-1.pdf">https://rurik.se/wp-content/uploads/KNIGA-3-28-01-18-PRINT-2-1.pdf</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>March of the Latvian Legionnaires 2012- Roland Binet 8 March 2021</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yGEHqysww&t=27s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3yGEHqysww&t=27s</a></div><div> </div><div><a href="https://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia">https://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia</a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://defendinghistory.com/why-do-i-find-the-so-called-heroes-from-the-latvian-waffen-ss-so-despicable/79414&source=gmail&ust=1616084650138000&usg=AFQjCNG9eP3XVc2xIr5yTZw-2B77rEucpQ" href="https://defendinghistory.com/why-do-i-find-the-so-called-heroes-from-the-latvian-waffen-ss-so-despicable/79414" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank">https://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>why-do-i-find-the-so-called-<wbr></wbr>heroes-from-the-latvian-<wbr></wbr>waffen-ss-so-despicable/79414</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>UPDATE 24.05.2021</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Latvian Legionnaries celebrated in Riga and, now also in Belgium, in Zedelgem </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Article by Michel Bouffioux Paris Match Belgique published 20 May 2021</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc;"><u>https://dossiers.parismatch.be/ruche-de-zedelgem-des-ss-lettons-commemores-en-flandre/?fbclid=IwAR1Vite4w6FXPaC3d1eitPw8DHWynsOyzUSZR3l1WkxtTnbw7xD6-vk8fZI</u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Important excerpt from the Bouffioux's article translated here into English:</b></span></div><div><div class="nH if" style="margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; 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University of Girona (Spain). His work focuses in particular on genocides
and contemporary forms of Nazism glorification. In 2016, this researcher
published a <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304744991_Latvian_SS-Legion_Past_and_Present_Some_Issues_Regarding_the_Modern_Glorification_of_Nazism" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00a7cf; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">legal
study</span></a> devoted to the Latvian legionaries celebrated in Riga
and, now also in Belgium, in Zedelgem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This scientist draws attention to a period of history not very present
in the Latvian nationalist version: what happened between the German invasion
in the summer of 1941 and the formation of the Legion in the early winter of
1943: "</span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> From the first days of the
German occupation, Latvian police battalions (Lettische
Schutzmannschafts-Bataillone) made up of volunteer civilians were
born. They will be the devoted accomplices of Nazi war criminals in
punitive operations, especially in Belarus, against partisans and against
civilian populations. These Latvian collaborators also took part in
pogroms, in the genocidal mechanics of the Riga ghetto, in the `` management ''
of the Salaspils concentration camp (near the Latvian capital) where tens of
thousands of people, many of them 'children, lost their lives in horrible
conditions (hunger, cold, ill-treatment). These battalions of
collaborators played an active and very important role in the extermination of
the Jewish community in Latvia. "</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We can, for example, mention the “Sonderkommando Arājs”, a back-up for
the SS Einsatzgruppen who carried out mass massacres of the Jewish
populations. Latvian collaborators were notably present in the forest in
Rumbula, near Riga, when in three unspeakable days in the winter of 1941,
26,000 Jews were shot and executed. </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"In this
debate, it is important to understand that these early 'volunteers' will constitute
the hard core of the Latvian legion from 1943,"</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Kazyrytski
underlines. Thus Viktor Arajs will join the 19</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">th</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Latvian
division in 1944, while the collaborative Latvian government supported the
recruitment of legionaries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">During his research, Karyrytsky also unearthed an order from Himmler
dated May 26, 1943. Important in terms of legal responsibility, “ </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this document establishes that </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the Latvian Legion was an entity which included all Latvian units
subordinate to the SS in this regard. including the Latvian police
battalions. </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">" <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For this researcher, the Latvian discourse on the “conscription” of
legionaries must be put into perspective: </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Those who joined the Waffen-SS made a choice: the Germans also offered
the alternative of a labor service in their war industry. Also, they could
desert: in 1944, 32.2% of Latvians invited to join recruiting offices did not
show up there… Joining the SS in 1943 was very significant while this criminal
organization was at work. in Latvia, in full view of everyone, since 1941. In
addition, there is a contradiction in the Latvian novel which describes
legionaries who were both “in spite of us” and “fighters for
freedom”. Should we be forced to fight for our freedom? Hitler never
promised any autonomy for Latvia and therefore we do not see how wearing the SS
uniform led to "freedom" ... "</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kazyrytski further asserts that " </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">there is strong evidence, not only of the participation of Latvian
police battalions in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
but also of the engagement of the Latvian SS Legion as such in the commission
of these crimes. Among other examples, between December 1943 and April
1944, the 19</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">th </span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Waffen-SS divisions participated in punitive operations in Russia and
Belarus during which villages were set on fire, many civilians were killed,
sometimes burned alive in their homes. " </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Regarding the Nuremberg judgment, this researcher explains that
“ </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">this element cannot be used as proof
of the non-involvement of the Legion in the commission of war crimes. These
were documented after this pronouncement which, in any case, never had the
legal or political significance of absolving the perpetrators of such
facts. "</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 1.5rem auto; width: 611.328px;">
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into account the geostrategic context of the immediate post-war period:
“ </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After having surrendered to the
allies to escape the Red Army, Latvian legionaries have been detained for a
short time. Released, they remained in the West because Latvia had become
Soviet again. They created various organizations used for propaganda
purposes against the USSR. It is in this context of the Cold War that we
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distinction between Latvian SS units and other Waffen-SS formations."</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 1.5rem auto; width: 611.328px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit;"></span></em></p><div><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">R</span><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 1.375rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">endez-vous manqué entre histoire et mémoire | Cairn.info</span></b></div><div><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #656565; font-family: Alegreya, "Times New Roman", Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Le camp de concentration de Salaspils en Lettonie</b></div><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #c0b638; font-family: Alegreya; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-C%25C3%25A9line-Bayou--15988.htm&source=gmail&ust=1621935547871000&usg=AFQjCNFA_2J5czuklxB3Zy3L2JhGWSqDcA" href="https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-C%C3%A9line-Bayou--15988.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Céline Bayou</a></span><span style="color: #323232; font-family: Alegreya; font-size: 20px;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #c0b638; font-family: Alegreya; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Eric-Le%2520Bourhis--26751.htm&source=gmail&ust=1621935547871000&usg=AFQjCNGjkTLP3UwTUjcmzc-VIwgWGiBcqg" href="https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Eric-Le%20Bourhis--26751.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Monica Lowenberg in silent protest at the legionnaires march 16 March 2012, Riga Latvia PHOTO: COURTESY OF DEFENDING HISTORY.COM
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica">http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Centre Photo
From left to right Monica Lowenberg (UK), Helmut Scholz, (Germany, MEP), Joel Rubinfeld, president of the European Jewish Parliament (Belgium), Efraim Zuroff, Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (Israel), Tatjana Ždanoka (Tatyana Zhdanok), EP deputy (Latvia), Janis Kuzins, Chairman of the Board for Associated Diversified Trade Unions ( Latvia) , Joseph Koren, president of the association "Latvia without Nazism" (Latvia), Hermann Dvorzak, leader of the European Social Forum (Austria), laying down a wreath to the victims of Nazism 16 March 2012 , Riga Latvia PHOTO: COURTESY OF DEFENDING HISTORY.COM
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/1500-honor-the-waffen-ss-at-rigas-liberty-monumuent-event-is-praised-by-latvias-president-condemned-by-the-european-commission/32654">http://defendinghistory.com/1500-honor-the-waffen-ss-at-rigas-liberty-monumuent-event-is-praised-by-latvias-president-condemned-by-the-european-commission/32654</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Photo to the Right
Volker Beck gives a speech of support to protesters at the Latvian Embassy in Berlin on the eve of the 2017 annual Waffen SS march in central Riga to his left Dr Hans Coppi, VVN Berlin PHOTO: LOTHAR EBERHARDT.
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/german-member-of-parliament-volker-beck-joins-protest-at-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87225">http://defendinghistory.com/german-member-of-parliament-volker-beck-joins-protest-at-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87225
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">To date Common Sense, Reason and Respect have not stopped the SS glorification march but now an unseen virus that indiscriminately attacks any member of the human race might! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Since 1998, former Latvian SS have each and every year on the 16th
of March been marching in the capital city of Riga to commemorate their
fallen colleagues whom they perceive as war heroes. The marches have over the
years increased in alarming numbers and have even been publicly condoned by
Latvian officials. In the heart of NATO in Riga, more than 2,500 people,
amongst them Latvian politicians, have been known to annually pay tribute to
Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during
World War II. In 2012 the Latvian Prime Minister told local media he did
not think March 16 had “any special significance.” Legionnaires’ Day is used by
radicals on both sides, he said, “to confront each other”! However, we believe
Latvia, the international community, the UK government, the European Union and
NATO should condemn this pro-Nazi event, for which the center of an EU capital
is annually gifted by authorities, in morally clear terms. Waffen SS
veterans are not remotely regarded as legitimate “heroes” by the European
Union, of which Latvia has been a full member since 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: 15pt;">Please add your voice to </span><a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px dotted black; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; text-indent: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the international petition</a><span style="text-indent: 15pt;">, see </span><span style="text-indent: 15pt;">earlier </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/41705648/List_of_Published_Articles_by_Monica_Low_1_" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px dotted black; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; text-indent: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">articles and papers</a><span style="text-indent: 15pt;"> available online, and </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/riga-waffen-ss-marches?order=asc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px dotted black; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; text-indent: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reports on earlier marches</a><span style="text-indent: 15pt;"> in Defending History. A packet of background materials is </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/M.-LOWENBERG-COMPILATION-ON-WAFFEN-SS-MARHES-IN-RIGA.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px dotted black; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none !important; text-indent: 15pt; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">attached in PDF format</a><span style="text-indent: 15pt;"> .</span></span></div>
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those of its members who try to avoid responsibility by covering up, denying and
trying to re-write shameful parts of their history. Nearly all, if not all
countries have some shameful history. It is time for an international 'amnesty'
in which this is recognised and all past shame publicly acknowledged, so that
we can all go forward accepting the truth of the past in order to create a
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the most dysfunctional family of all time. We have too many leaders at all
levels, who should be role models and guardians of the truth, irresponsibly
putting their greed for power and wealth before the interests of their people.
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Riga, on 16 March, processions have been held to honour veterans of the Latvian
Legion of the murderous Nazi Waffen SS for fighting the Allies in WWII.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government materials and state propaganda film footage, the role of the Latvian
Legion is still apologised for or excused while the far-right National Alliance
– which sits in the Latvian government – is again loudly demanding that the
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authorities, including, in 2012, Latvia’s president himself and have
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complicity in Latvia’s Day of National Shame is copious but astonishingly the
ghastly charade of memorialising the SS in</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Riga, a European capital at
the heart of NATO and the EU, </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">goes on, attended by increasing
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lauds the members of a proven criminal organisation. It is surely time that
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and all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance and
extremism,” Mills said. ”That is why we condemn the parade to commemorate
the Latvian SS Brigade held in Latvia on March 16<sup>th</sup>.”</span></i></strong><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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records on governments, military units or organizations that fought with,
supported or sympathized with the Nazis during World War II. This includes
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Riga from Berlin with Baltic Air earlier that same day. The
VVN-BdA demanded that her five fellow protesters, who
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on 13 March 2014 by <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" target="_blank" title="View all posts by Defending History"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Defending
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Howitt, British Labour Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson for
the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee today issued the following
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Waffen SS forces from the Nazi era which brought death and destruction to our
continent and which today’s European Union was supposed to consign to history.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">I am pleased to hear that the Latvian Government has forbidden Ministers
from attending the march this year, but condemn the Latvian High Court’s
decision of 2013, forcing the Riga Mayor to apologise for all the years of
trying to ban it.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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from my country chooses to ally itself in a common European Group with the
Latvian “For Fatherland and Freedom Party,” whose Member of the European
Parliament is on record as supporting this sickening celebration, even
supporting its previous status as a public holiday in the country.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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was head of his European group in 2012, is reported to have personally refused
to sign the petition against the celebration, despite 7,000 people worldwide
having done so.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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has proposed the Waffen SS troops be renamed “liberation fighters.”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">What they should remember is that almost all of Latvia’s 70,000 Jews
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volunteers, celebration of their actions not only insults the memory of the
victims but also honours Nazism itself.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Today, the British Labour Party stands with all victims of the Second
World War, all who condemn fascism, all who oppose anti-Semitism and other
forms of racism, to express our horror at those who seek to rewrite history in
order to justify those who would spread bitterness, hate and division in a new
century.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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World War, and people throughout Europe will come together to remember the
horrors of both wars of the twentieth century and celebrate the fact fascism
was defeated and not victorious.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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saying “never again,” they could not have foreseen what is happening today in
Riga. These are the people we should be commemorating and this is the
message we should remember</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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communities by conflating crimes under Soviet Communism with Nazi crimes. The
concern here is that some countries have attempted to deflect attention from
the complicity of their wartime governments in the Holocaust, using this as a
cynical attempt to avoid liability for compensation to Jewish victims. The
crimes that Communist governments committed against their people should be
explored and the perpetrators prosecuted, but it is important that countries
acknowledge their role in the Holocaust and do not attempt to dismiss a very
troubled period in their history by reference to what happened under Communism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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so the Jews as a whole are complicit in the crimes of Communism. The rationale
continues that, as such, Jews in general do not deserve sympathy or compensation
for what they suffered during the Holocaust. But the fact that some Jews were
leading Communists did not leave </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jews – as a corporate entity – with the wealth of the subjugated people
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country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the
member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and
proposals for dealing with the problems identified. In the report on Latvia
published on February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the
authorisation of certain public events to commemorate two incidents and the
authorities’ reaction in this connection. As concerns the first incident, every
year, on 16 March, a gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian
unit of the Waffen SS is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI
regrets that, in spring 2010, an administrative district court overruled a decision
of the Riga City Council 27 prohibiting this march. Moreover, ECRI is concerned
that the speaker of the Latvian Parliament allegedly publicly expressed regret
for the formal prohibition of this event and that certain MPs have voted for
the restoration of March 16 as day of remembrance</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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involved in crimes against humanity, many of their soldiers had previously
served in the Latvian security police and had actively participated in the mass
murder of civilians, primarily Jews...The stubborn insistence of Latvia’s SS
Legion veterans to conduct a public march to glorify their role as combatants
on behalf of the Third Reich is a clear indication that many Latvians have
still not internalised the lessons of WWII... not one of the numerous Latvian
killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia
obtained its independence, far too many Latvians feel free to identify with
those who fought alongside the perpetrators of the Holocaust rather than with
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of 30 September 1946, it was crystal clear: there were no heroes among the SS;
there were no divisions that were deemed better than others but rather the SS
as a whole was defined as a “criminal organisation.”</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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of the evidence and the argument has centred around the question of whether
membership in these organizations was or was not voluntary; in this case, it
seems to the Tribunal to be quite beside the point. For this alleged criminal
organization has one characteristic, a controlling one, which sharply
distinguishes it….When an individual became a member of the SS, for instance,
he did so voluntarily or otherwise, but certainly with the knowledge that he
was joining something. Many of these men have made a mockery of the
soldier’s oath of obedience to military orders. When it suits their defense
they say they had to obey; when, confronted with Hitler’s brutal crimes, which
are shown to have been within their general knowledge, they say they disobeyed.
The truth is that they actively participated in all these crimes, or sat silent
and acquiescent, witnessing the commission of crimes on a scale larger and more
shocking than the world has ever had the misfortune to know. This must be said.</i>”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">On September 27 2019</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">, Latvia's minister of defence, Dr
Artis Pabriks, delivered a speech in More parish to commemorate the More
battle of September 1944. He stated that "<i>Latvian legionnaires
are a pride of the Latvian nation and of the state."</i> Moreover,
this quote was chosen as the title of an article on the ministry's website
in Latvian and now removed, </span><b><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> <a href="https://www.mod.gov.lv/lv/zinas/pabriks-latvijas-legionari-ir-latviesu-tautas-un-valsts-lepnums" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal;">https://www.mod.gov.lv/lv/zinas/pabriks-<br />
latvijas-legionari-ir-latviesu-tautas-un-valsts-lepnums</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> . It
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The Waffen SS Latvian Legion was a collaborationist unit, partly
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See the report in Russian at a state-owned news portal LSM.lv:</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-</span></a><a href="https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Mr Pabriks, a political scientist, has long been infamous for having
said in 2013, "<i>We are welcoming German boots on the ground here
in Latvia ever since 1940."</i> Later, he explained
that this was meant to refer to NATO troops. </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><br />
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See </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-</span></a><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-</span></a><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">macibam.htm</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><br />
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In 2013, Pabriks represented the conservative "Unity" party.
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fact that the Legion fought for a victory of the Third Reich, the most
genocidal regime in history, and that among those serving in it were active
participants in the mass murder of Latvian Jewry, as well as of German and
Austrian Jews deported by the Nazis to Riga, such comments are
incomprehensible, let alone deeply offensive, coming from a senior minister of
a country with full membership in the European Union and NATO,"</i> said
the </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/wiesenthal-center-protests-24.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Simon Wiesenthal Center</span></a></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #2b292a; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">'s Efraim Zuroff
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supporters of the SS Legion make the point that many members of these two
combat divisions — 120,000 personnel in total — were forcibly conscripted by
the Germans. That is a historical fact, which is not in dispute.</em><br />
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I will argue that if you were forced to wear an SS uniform against your will
during the Second World War, it is unlikely that you would dig it out of your
closet to proudly wear it down the streets of Riga 45 years later.'</em></span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Latvian SS veterans have, on the 16th March, been marching in the centre of the
capital city of Riga, accompanied by supporters of all generations, to
commemorate and herald their fallen colleagues as war ‘heroes’. The marches
have over the years increased in alarming numbers and have frequently been, and
continue to be supported by Latvian officials.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more than 2,500 people,</span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(75%
of them under the age of 30), gathered </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to pay tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in
Waffen SS detachments during World War II</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. Amongst
them a large number of neo-Nazi activists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania,
Germany, Norway and Denmark and</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Latvian officials and MEP members.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Over
the years the marches have been attended by the Latvian Chief-of-Staff,
Secretary of Defense, members of the Seim and current and former ministers and
officials. They herald the Latvian SS veterans as war heroes and freedom
fighters as they claim they fought in German ranks to hold back a greater evil,
the Soviet Union</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. Many Latvians</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> believe that the Latvian Waffen SS
legion could not have played a role in the Holocaust as it was not officially
formed until 1943 when nearly all of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered.
However, a substantial amount of evidence including a series of personal
accounts and confirmation received from the trial of German Nazi Adolph
Eichmann, supports that unknown numbers of Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had
indeed been previously involved in the murder of Jews as auxiliary police
between 1941 and 1942. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #2f2f2f; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish
population, were killed in 1941-42</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, only one in ten survived</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #2f2f2f; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. Approximately
67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July
1941.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation.
About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of
this murder were small German military units </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">joined by the so-called Arājs
Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of
volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were
killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and
Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After
this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and
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forgotten is the fact that not one of the numerous Latvian killers who
collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained
its independence. Killers who prior to joining the legion in 1943
had been part of 16 auxiliary police (SD) battalions that had previously taken
an active part in the liquidating of ghettos in Latvia, Belarus and Poland, as
well as in the destruction of civilian villages in Belarus and Russia’s Pskov
region. Killers who before joining the legion had been in
the ‘Arajs Team’ led by Viktor Arajs, comprising of up to 1,500 Latvian men,
known worldwide as the active performers of the Holocaust in Europe,
executioners of Latvian, Vilna, Warsaw and many Byelorussian ghettos.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen
SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the members
of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations of the
occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered
«Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost
150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their
country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly
placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which became the most decorated
non-German Waffen SS unit. It was the 15<sup>th</sup> infantry division
who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of
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Latvian legion formed in the winter of 1943 was ,under Hitler’s
orders ,formally established on March 16<sup>th </sup>1944 There
is consensus amongst all Latvian historians that the day marks the only time,
the two Divisions of the Legion (15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup>)
fought together against the Red Army. Therefore, by making the 16th
March a day to remember war dead, Latvians, (despite
Latvian official protestations to the contrary), are making the
day when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15<sup>th</sup> and
19<sup>th</sup> divisions of the SS an act of commemoration. As
Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even if one takes the stance that the
Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and that they were forced to fight for
the Nazis, to commemorate the Legion is far from being a positive act
and a far cry from a policy to GLORIFY them. Glorification of
pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union /
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condemnation from the international community and reports from the European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance that in 2008 explicitly stated, <i>‘All
attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate
with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march
legitimising in any way Nazism should be banned’</i>, in January this year,
many Latvian policymakers expressed their respect and admiration of former SS
veterans. Political party “Visu Latviyyay!” announced that it is preparing a
bill declaring the veterans of the SS Legion as national liberation movement
fighters. Under the bill, former SS soldiers in Latvia will enjoy many benefits
and advantages, in contrast to the veterans of the Allied forces who fought
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is a sad and important fact to remember that a substantial number of the same Latvian Waffen SS (the “legionnaires”) had, prior to joining the Latvian SS legion, been members of the worst Jew killing machine the world has ever known, killing with the Nazis in the summer-autumn of 1941 some 75, 000 Jews. To honour such men, no matter how many were involved, is a travesty of justice. The legionnaires who were mobilised into the Latvian Legion, against their free will, are in some respects victims but as the video clips of this year’s march which I protested at (see links below) reveal, their descendants do not perceive them as such as they desecrated the wreath to the victims of Nazism and hissed anti-Semitic statements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Aside from any EU regulations that strictly forbid days that commemorate and glorify Nazism, (see <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: blue;">Report on Latvia</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <i>by the ECRI</i> (<i>European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance published 21 February 2012)</i> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">for let us not forget Latvia is since 2004 a member of the EU, NATO and OSCE , apologists and supporters of the march would be wise, on seeing the You tube clips and the international petition site that I set up in January 2012 against the SS marches <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></a> littered with anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophobic sentiments, to concede that days that commemorate Nazism and any associations with Nazism will simultaneously generate anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophobic sentiments. All the flowers in the world will not dismiss this and the above mentioned tragic facts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As Dr Efraim Zuroff stated in The Guardian already in 2009 <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing</span></a> ‘<i>The results speak for themselves. Although there were numerous Nazi war criminals who could still be brought to trial, not a single one was ever punished in the Baltics, which had the worst record of local collaboration, and only two have been punished in democratic Eastern Europe. Although various leaders issued public apologies (usually in Israel, almost never at home), they failed to deliver in terms of prosecution, restitution, education and documentation. Even worse, Holocaust-related issues became the main cause of renewed local anti-Semitism, which threatened the minuscule remnant Jewish communities in these countries. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For some reason, these issues, which should have been highly significant in determining the candidacy of these countries for European Union and NATO membership, were apparently not taken into account. Suddenly, these countries have the legitimacy of those memberships without having fully internalised the concomitant values. Miliband is correct in pointing out the obvious flaws of the Conservatives' new allies. But they are only the tip of the eastern European right wing, which is determined to rewrite the history of the Second World War in a way that no self-respecting European should accept. By joining forces with parties such as Fatherland and Freedom and Law and Justice, the Conservatives are granting important legitimacy to a false narrative that seeks to whitewash war crimes and erase the heroic victory of those who saved the world from Hitler and the Nazis.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">With regards to the Latvian Legion guarding at the Nuremberg trials the reality is that only a third of them did so, in the exterior ring not because they were innocent of crimes but because they spoke good German! Other rings were composed of Americans, allied troops and police. One should also question the following, Ivan Demyanyuk, also like the Latvian legionnaires, worked for the Americans immediately after the war, does this mean he is not a criminal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. The Legion fought under the Nazi high command for a victory of the Third Reich. They do not deserve to be honoured for fighting for a victory of the most genocidal regime in human history. Ironically, such a victory would have been a disaster for Latvia since the Nazis had no intention or plan to grant Latvia independence. Historians know very well of the Nazis’ plans to do away with the Latvian (among other Baltic) peoples after the planned-for victory. There would have <i>been no Latvia</i> to become independent in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For the 22nd year SS veterans and their supporters strut down an EU, NATO, OSCE capital with swastikas and SS Totenkoepfe!</h2>
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<a href="http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/veterans-march-latvian-capital-commemorate-nazi-ss-soldiers-190316-99-412997" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">AROUND 1000 TAKE PART IN 16 MARCH CENTRAL RIGA PARADE GLORIFYING LATVIA’S WARTIME NAZI WAFFEN SS</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong><em>'All those who glorify Nazis and their collaborators by marching or otherwise are inciting hatred, plain and simple</em>'</strong> Robert Singer- World Jewish Congress 17 March 2019</span><br />
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Orwellian times indeed when a country has sympathy for the collaborator and the perpetrator, when people can only see their own suffering through their own clouded lens and refuse to see the suffering they committed on others. A tragic day indeed when one loses sight of who the true victims were: civilians who were Jews , Roma and Sinti, Communists who did not have guns to protect themselves when they were shoved into ditches and shot. Civilians who were targeted by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators in 1941, collaborators who later VOLUNTEERED to join the Latvian SS 15 and 19 divisions, collaborators who worked for the most genocidal regime the world has ever known. <br />
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There is nothing to be proud of, there is nothing to honour and celebrate. Remembrance services for those who fought for the Nazis should be held in private not in public spaces for the world to view.<br />
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In 1941 when the Nazis entered Riga they were greeted with flowers, today their Latvian colleagues are met with the same. Orwellian times indeed.<br />
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The Belgians want to be remembered for their chocolate, the French for their food and the Swiss for their clocks and the Latvians, well the Latvians for their SS! Really? Is this really what Latvian grandfathers who fought in the Latvian 15th and 19th SS divisions want to be remembered for? To be remembered for fighting for the most genocidal regime the world has ever known? Is this the kind of message young Latvians deserve and is celebrating the SS in an EU, NATO, OSCE capital good PR for its citizens? We who peacefully protest beg to differ. Do you?<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On September 27 2019</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Latvia's minister of defence, Dr Artis Pabriks, delivered
a speech in More parish to commemorate the More battle of September 1944.
He stated that "<i>Latvian legionnaires are a pride of the Latvian nation
and of the state."</i> Moreover, this quote was chosen as the title
of an article on the ministry's website in Latvian and now removed, <b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"> <a href="https://www.mod.gov.lv/lv/zinas/pabriks-latvijas-legionari-ir-latviesu-tautas-un-valsts-lepnums" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-weight: normal;">https://www.mod.gov.lv/lv/zinas/pabriks-<br />
latvijas-legionari-ir-latviesu-tautas-un-valsts-lepnums</span></a></span></b> . It
should be noted the ministry did not proclaim this on their
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The Waffen SS Latvian Legion was a collaborationist unit, partly
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See the report in Russian at a state-owned news portal LSM.lv:<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><a href="https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-</span></a><a href="https://rus.lsm.lv/statja/novosti/politika/legioneri--gordost-latishskogo-naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">naroda-i-gosudarstva--ministr-oboroni.a333451/</span></a></span><br />
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</span>Mr Pabriks, a political scientist, has long been infamous for having
said in 2013, "<i>We are welcoming German boots on the ground here
in Latvia ever since 1940."</i> Later, he explained
that this was meant to refer to NATO troops. <span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br />
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See <span style="color: #1c1e21;"><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-</span></a><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-</span></a><a href="https://nra.lv/latvija/101794-pabriks-izteikumu-par-gaiditajiem-vacu-zabakiem-domajis-saistiba-ar-nato-macibam.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">macibam.htm</span></a></span> <span style="color: #1c1e21;"><br />
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In 2013, Pabriks represented the conservative "Unity" party.
His current party, "Development"/"For!” is considered
"liberal" by Latvia's standards.<b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In response to Pabriks’ comments, Dr Efraim
Zuroff of The Simon Wiesenthal Centre condemned on October 7 2019 the
Latvian defence minister's comments. <b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #fafafa; color: #2b292a; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<i>Given the fact that the Legion fought for a
victory of the Third Reich, the most genocidal regime in history, and that
among those serving in it were active participants in the mass murder of
Latvian Jewry, as well as of German and Austrian Jews deported by the Nazis to
Riga, such comments are incomprehensible, let alone deeply offensive, coming
from a senior minister of a country with full membership in the European Union
and NATO,"</i> said the </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/wiesenthal-center-protests-24.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Simon Wiesenthal Center</span></a></span><span style="background: #fafafa; color: #2b292a; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">'s Efraim Zuroff in response.</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/02/05/holocaust-revisionism-is-just-as-bad-as-denying-the-atrocity/233695">https://www.hilltimes.com/2020/02/05/holocaust-revisionism-is-just-as-bad-as-denying-the-atrocity/233695</a></strong><br />
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<strong>Over 1000 supporters of those who fought on Hitler's side attend march 16 March 2019</strong><br />
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With swastika and SS Totenkopf: Commemoration of Waffen-SS in Riga in English and German<br />
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jfda.de/blog/2019/03/16/gedenken-an-waffen-ss-in-riga/&source=gmail&ust=1552866519950000&usg=AFQjCNExjLv6umzOXedkOFcTFjclygajTw" href="https://jfda.de/blog/2019/03/16/gedenken-an-waffen-ss-in-riga/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://jfda.de/blog/2019/03/1<wbr></wbr></span>6/gedenken-an-waffen-ss-in-rig<wbr></wbr>a/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/on-target-terrorists-come-in-all-colours-walks-of-life-294699/">https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/on-target-terrorists-come-in-all-colours-walks-of-life-294699/</a><br />
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<em>Latvian supporters of the SS Legion make the point that many members of these two combat divisions — 120,000 personnel in total — were forcibly conscripted by the Germans. That is a historical fact, which is not in dispute.</em><br />
<em>However, I will argue that if you were forced to wear an SS uniform against your will during the Second World War, it is unlikely that you would dig it out of your closet to proudly wear it down the streets of Riga 45 years later.'</em><br />
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<em>'Ķuzis said it should be taken into account that the European Parliament elections in May are drawing near and consequently certain people may attempt to use the March 16 parade to draw attention to themselves. ' - </em><strong>Chopped logic in action! When the SS are allowed to march down the centre of an EU, NATO , OSCE capital the only people drawing attention to themselves are the SS veterans and their fans. No European Parliament elections can compete with such a gruesome spectacle !</strong></div>
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<a href="https://www.bnaibrith.ca/canada_must_counter_the_glorification_of_nazis_in_european_nato_countries">https://www.bnaibrith.ca/canada_must_counter_the_glorification_of_nazis_in_european_nato_countries</a> 2018<br />
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<a href="https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/national-alliance-repeats-march-16-memorial-request.a310737/?fbclid=IwAR2wgPZzXsOjgLcTm1yEr1at6eJ0NiX1Z0J2CCIJYyYDG8heSpprw8sn2WU">https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/national-alliance-repeats-march-16-memorial-request.a310737/?fbclid=IwAR2wgPZzXsOjgLcTm1yEr1at6eJ0NiX1Z0J2CCIJYyYDG8heSpprw8sn2WU</a> Feb 2019<br />
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<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/hundreds-march-with-nazi-ss-veterans-in-latvia-1.5912476">https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/hundreds-march-with-nazi-ss-veterans-in-latvia-1.5912476</a> March 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "palatino"; font-size: 14pt;"> Canadian military magazine <a href="http://espritdecorps.ca/scott-taylor/latvian-ambassador-makes-fake-claim-as-to-fake-news-in-response-to-scott-taylors-7-may-column-halifax-chronicle-herald-celebrating-nazis-is-bad-period" target="_blank"><em>Esprit de Corps </em>(<em>On Target</em>) replies to Latvian ambassador’s acrobatics</a> on worship of Waffen SS (see Scott Taylor’s <a href="http://espritdecorps.ca/on-target-4/on-target-no-denying-latvias-nazi-past?rq=Latvia" target="_blank">earlier article</a>. From archives: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica?order=asc" target="_blank">Monica Lowenberg</a> takes on Latvian ambassador in London <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#lowenbergsreplytolatvianambassador">in 2012</a> and<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-ambassador-to-the-uk-comments-on-march-16th-waffen-ss-march-in-riga/50988" target="_blank"> in 2013</a>). 11 May 2018</span><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/richard-blooms-documentary-defending-holocaust-history-now-online/96647">http://defendinghistory.com/richard-blooms-documentary-defending-holocaust-history-now-online/96647</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/lithuanian-bill-would-ban-books-critical-of-the-country/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/lithuanian-bill-would-ban-books-critical-of-the-country/</a> 04.04.2018<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.jta.org/2018/03/16/news-opinion/hundreds-accompany-ss-veterans-march-latvia">https://www.jta.org/2018/03/16/news-opinion/hundreds-accompany-ss-veterans-march-latvia</a> Hundreds march with Nazi SS veterans in Latvia 16.03.2018</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">As Dr Efraim Zuroff stated in The Guardian already in 2009 <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing</span></a> ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The results speak for themselves. Although there were numerous Nazi war criminals who could still be brought to trial, not a single one was ever punished in the Baltics, which had the worst record of local collaboration, and only two have been punished in democratic Eastern Europe. Although various leaders issued public apologies (usually in Israel, almost never at home), they failed to deliver in terms of prosecution, restitution, education and documentation. Even worse, Holocaust-related issues became the main cause of renewed local anti-Semitism, which threatened the minuscule remnant Jewish communities in these countries. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">95.6% of Latvia's pre-war Jewish population was murdered in 1941 and 1942 by German Nazis and Latvian Arajs commandos and auxiliary police, many of whom subsequently, in 1943 and 1944 freely joined the Latvian SS Legion,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 15th and 19th divisions, the 15<sup>th</sup> becoming the most decorated out of all SS divisions. It is true that the Latvian Legion per se did not murder, virtually all of their Latvian compatriots; who happened to be Jewish, but a substantial number of them prior to joining the legion had been mass murderers of the worst kind. (The main core of the Waffen SS legion Lettland was created in 1943 from 16 battalions of Latvian police which in 1941-1942 participated in the Holocaust in not only Latvia but also Russia, Belorussia and in the executions in the Warsaw ghetto.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The legionnaires participated in the defense of the Reich’s Chancellery in Berlin in April-May 1945, right next to Hitler defending him from Soviet attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, if that is not collaboration what is?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2. The Legion fought under the Nazi high command for a victory of the Third Reich. They do not deserve to be honoured for fighting for a victory of the most genocidal regime in human history. Ironically, such a victory would have been a disaster for Latvia since the Nazis had no intention or plan to grant Latvia independence. Historians know very well of the Nazis’ plans to do away with the Latvian (among other Baltic) peoples after the planned-for victory. There would have <i>been no Latvia</i> to become independent in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">5. Democratic Latvia should not glorify those willing to give up their lives for a victory of the Third Reich. The Latvian Righteous Gentiles would make much better role models for today’s young people in Latvia and for future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">6. The ultranationalists who support the march are the ones who are seeking to rewrite the historic narrative of the Holocaust in Latvia in order to hide or downgrade the crimes of local Nazi collaborators and promote the canard of equivalency between Communist and Nazi crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!-- .entry-meta --><span style="font-size: small;"> Richard Howitt, British Labour Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson for the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee today issued the following text of his statement which will be read out in Riga this Sunday March 16th.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today brings the seventeenth annual march in Riga, Latvia glorifying Waffen SS forces from the Nazi era which brought death and destruction to our continent and which today’s European Union was supposed to consign to history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am pleased to hear that the Latvian Government has forbidden Ministers from attending the march this year, but condemn the Latvian High Court’s decision of 2013, forcing the Riga Mayor to apologise for all the years of trying to ban it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Coming from Britain, I am saddened that the governing Conservative Party from my country chooses to ally itself in a common European Group with the Latvian “For Fatherland and Freedom Party,” whose Member of the European Parliament is on record as supporting this sickening celebration, even supporting its previous status as a public holiday in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am also shocked at the report that the British Conservative MEP who was head of his European group in 2012, is reported to have personally refused to sign the petition against the celebration , despite 7,000 people worldwide having done so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The party of Government of my country should not sit with a party which has proposed the Waffen SS troops be renamed “liberation fighters.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What they should remember is that almost all of Latvia’s 70,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whether local boys were forced to don the SS uniforms or were eager volunteers, celebration of their actions not only insults the memory of the victims but also honours Nazism itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Today, the British Labour Party stands with all victims of the Second World War, all who condemn fascism, all who oppose antisemitism and other forms of racism, to express our horror at those who seek to rewrite history in order to justify those who would spread bitterness, hate and division in a new century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year sees the 100 years centenary since the beginning of the First World War, and people throughout Europe will come together to remember the horrors of both wars of the twentieth century and celebrate the fact fascism was defeated and not victorious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">When survivors of Nazi concentration camps in 1945 stood holding signs saying “never again,” they could not have foreseen what is happening today in Riga. These are the people we should be commemorating and this is the message we should remember.</span></div>
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Those who worked for Hitler were collaborators. Nothing more, nothing less.<br />
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What happened to collaborators after the war? They were sentenced, they were convicted and in only a few cases executed. They were publicly humiliated , they had their heads shaved, they were denazified but above all they were told they had crossed a red line. <br />
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Thousands of Germans had to join the Wehrmacht, many, once they knew what they were involved in probably didn't want to work for Hitler anymore, they may well have felt, like the Latvians today, that they too were victims of Nazism. Remember, Hitler had not got into power in 1933 with a majority vote indeed only 43.9 <em><strong><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">percent</span></strong></em> of the <em><strong><span style="color: #6a6a6a;">vote</span></strong></em>, well short of a majority. However, one does not hear Angela Merkel proclaim today that there should be a day dedicated to German soldiers who fought for Hitler whether they wanted to or not, to honour and remember them ( that is something the AFD would like to do instead). A day where thousands of young people can go to the Reichstag, a leading monument in the heart of Berlin, to celebrate old Wehrmacht soldiers with flowers and song. Travel to Berlin, a city that like Riga is an EU, NATO OSCE capital and in turn develop a very warped sense of history. <br />
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Orwellian times indeed when a country has sympathy for the collaborator and the perpetrator, when people can only see their own suffering through their own clouded lens and refuse to see the suffering they committed on others. A tragic day indeed when one loses sight of who the true victims were: civilians who were Jews , Roma and Sinti, Communists who did not have guns to protect themselves when they were shoved into ditches and shot. Civilians who were targeted by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators in 1941, collaborators who later VOLUNTEERED to join the Latvian SS 15 and 19 divisions, collaborators who worked for the most genocidal regime the world has ever known. <br />
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There is nothing to be proud of, there is nothing to honour and celebrate. Remembrance services for those who fought for the Nazis should be held in private not in public spaces for the world to view.<br />
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In 1941 when the Nazis entered Riga they were greeted with flowers, today their Latvian colleagues are met with the same. Orwellian times indeed.<br />
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<a href="https://lfpress.com/news/national/defence-watch/nazi-whitewash-gathers-momentum-as-memory-of-the-holocaust-fades/wcm/e220fd41-061d-4b08-b71d-2a32244190e0">https://lfpress.com/news/national/defence-watch/nazi-whitewash-gathers-momentum-as-memory-of-the-holocaust-fades/wcm/e220fd41-061d-4b08-b71d-2a32244190e0</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.bnaibrith.ca/canada_must_counter_the_glorification_of_nazis_in_european_nato_countries">https://www.bnaibrith.ca/canada_must_counter_the_glorification_of_nazis_in_european_nato_countries</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/hundreds-march-with-nazi-ss-veterans-in-latvia-1.5912476">https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/hundreds-march-with-nazi-ss-veterans-in-latvia-1.5912476</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "palatino"; font-size: 14pt;"> Canadian military magazine <a href="http://espritdecorps.ca/scott-taylor/latvian-ambassador-makes-fake-claim-as-to-fake-news-in-response-to-scott-taylors-7-may-column-halifax-chronicle-herald-celebrating-nazis-is-bad-period" target="_blank"><em>Esprit de Corps </em>(<em>On Target</em>) replies to Latvian ambassador’s acrobatics</a> on worship of Waffen SS (see Scott Taylor’s <a href="http://espritdecorps.ca/on-target-4/on-target-no-denying-latvias-nazi-past?rq=Latvia" target="_blank">earlier article</a>. From archives: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica?order=asc" target="_blank">Monica Lowenberg</a> takes on Latvian ambassador in London <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#lowenbergsreplytolatvianambassador">in 2012</a> and<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-ambassador-to-the-uk-comments-on-march-16th-waffen-ss-march-in-riga/50988" target="_blank"> in 2013</a>). 11 May 2018</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.newcoldwar.org/nazis-and-canadas-latvian-love-in/">https://www.newcoldwar.org/nazis-and-canadas-latvian-love-in/</a><br />
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Am Freitag werden – wie jedes Jahr seit 1991 – Demonstranten durch Riga ziehen, um der Angehörigen der »Lettischen Legion«, einer Division der Waffen-SS, zu gedenken. Die VVN-BdA ruft zu Protest auf. Was ist geplant?</strong><br />
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Wir werden an allen lettischen diplomatischen Vertretungen Mahnwachen abhalten und über die Verbrechen informieren, an denen die lettischen Einheiten der Waffen-SS beteiligt waren. In Frankfurt am Main wird es eine größere Kundgebung mit breiter Beteiligung an der Hauptwache geben. Gleichzeitig werden unsere Partnerverbände aus der FIR, der Internationalen Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer, in Rom, Athen und Budapest vor den lettischen Botschaften protestieren.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Vor zwei Jahren wurde eine Delegation Ihres Verbandes auf dem Flughafen von Riga abgefangen und ausgewiesen, Antifaschisten aus dem Ausland stehen auf schwarzen Listen des lettischen Geheimdienstes. Plant die VVN dennoch, auch vor Ort zu protestieren?</strong></div>
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Vor einem Jahr ist es einigen von uns gelungen, nach Riga zu fahren und dort zu protestieren. In diesem Jahr klappt das nicht. Der Druck auf die Organisatoren der Proteste in Riga ist enorm, sie werden massiv in ihrer Arbeit behindert und sichtbar auf Schritt und Tritt beobachtet und überwacht, so dass allein die Kontaktaufnahme schon zum Scheitern von Verabredungen führen kann. Das hat tatsächlich Ausmaße, die wir uns hier kaum vorstellen können.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Die deutschen Besatzer im Zweiten Weltkrieg werden in Lettland als »Befreier« gefeiert, die mit den Letten gegen die Rote Armee gekämpft hätten. Was steckt dahinter?</strong></div>
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Das reicht bis in die Zeit der Oktoberrevolution zurück. Auch in Lettland gab es einen Bürgerkrieg, der von antibolschewistischen Truppen gewonnen wurde, und in der Folge eine unabhängige lettische Republik, die nach dem Überfall Deutschlands auf Polen von sowjetischen Truppen besetzt wurde. Dies wird als Legitimation dafür verstanden, dass sich sofort nach dem deutschen Überfall auf die Sowjetunion lettische Faschisten unter dem Kommando von Viktors Arajs daranmachten, insbesondere Juden und Kommunisten zu verhaften und zu ermorden.</div>
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Später stellte die Wehrmacht die lettischen Einheiten der Waffen-SS auf. Sie bestanden tatsächlich teilweise aus zwangsrekrutierten jungen Männern, aber auch aus Freiwilligen, so wurden die Mörder des Kommandos von Viktors Arajs in diese Einheiten eingegliedert. Sie nahmen mit der Wehrmacht an der sogenannten Partisanenbekämpfung teil und ebenso an den Kämpfen gegen die Rote Armee. Das gilt heute als patriotische Tat.</div>
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Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion wurden in Lettland neue Pässe ausgegeben, und den russischsprachigen Einwohnern wurde per Gesetz die lettische Staatsangehörigkeit vorenthalten. Bis heute leben viele von ihnen mit einem sogenannten Fremdenpass in Lettland. Tatsächlich sind die wenigen Menschen, die gegen die jährlichen Aufmärsche protestieren, jüdischer Herkunft und russischsprachig. Das genügt, um sie als »fünfte Kolonne Moskaus« zu verdächtigen.</div>
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Leider kann ich die erste Frage nicht wirklich beantworten. Auf jeden Fall reicht das Spektrum der Beteiligten von ganzen Familien mit kleinen Kindern bis zu martialisch Uniformierten, die teilweise auch Hakenkreuze tragen, und szenetypisch gekleideten Gruppen. Und ja, es gibt Verbindungen auch zu deutschen Rechten. 2014 haben wir eine Gruppe Dortmunder Nazis dort gesehen.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700;">Die NATO stationiert immer mehr Truppen im Baltikum, die Bundeswehr hat 2017 an einem Manöver in Lettland teilgenommen. Schweigt der Westen einschließlich der deutschen Regierung deshalb zur Verherrlichung der Kollaboration dort?</strong></div>
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Lettland ist ja beileibe nicht das einzige Land, in dem es derlei gibt. Wir kennen das auch aus Estland und Litauen. Auch in Bulgarien gibt es regelmäßig rechte Aufmärsche mit historischem Bezug. Und wenn sich am Hohen Brendten bei Mittenwald jährlich die letzten noch lebenden deutschen Kriegsverbrecher als Veteranen beim jährlichen Kameradschaftstreffen einfinden, gibt es ein Grußwort des bayrischen Ministerpräsidenten. Da passt der Aufmarsch in Riga durchaus in den Rahmen.</div>
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in previous years since 1991, after a Lutheran church service, an honorary
march and flag-lined rally will take place at the Freedom Monument in the heart
of the city to honour Latvian units of the Waffen SS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous members of these legionnaires were
involved in the mass murder of Latvian Jews before they joined the Waffen SS.
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Eastern European states where locally staffed anti-Semitic units and death
squads under different names who collaborated with the Nazis are celebrated
today as national heroes. This is done with tacit consent of the state and
varying degrees of tacit or open support from state authorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, at the end of 2017 a law was
passed in Latvia which stated that even if Latvian soldiers had collaborated
with the Nazis they would still be recognised as being anti-Hitler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, all former Latvian veterans who
had fought in the Second World War- including Waffen SS members should be
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towards relatives of victims of the Latvian police and SS associations and the
Jewish, Russian-speaking and other minorities in the country. The march
is not only in conflict with the fundamental values of the European Union,
whose advantages the Latvian state accepts, but it is also a crass
provocation against all the peoples of Europe that made huge sacrifices to
bring down Hitler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Last but not least, it should be
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Latvian collaborators who then later joined in 1943, only two years later, the
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international anti-fascists have been repeatedly protesting against the march,
amongst them Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in
Jerusalem. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In Latvia, anti-fascist demonstrators are exposed
to considerable reprisals (telephone monitoring, travel restrictions,
administrative chicanery, police and state influence on hotels and event organisers
and arbitrary police arrests in the run-up to protests. This also applies to
supporters who come from Germany and other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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protests against the Waffen-SS march of honour. Afterwards, they were dumped
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Berlin Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime -<br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">vor der
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40/41, 14193 Berlin Grunewald</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Am 16. März 2018</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">wird es in der lettischen Hauptstadt Riga – wie jedes Jahr seit
1991 – zu einer öffentlichen Ehrung faschistischer Verbrecher kommen.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Legionäre“ werden ein Gottesdienst, ein Ehrenmarsch und eine fahnengesäumte
Kundgebung am Freiheitsdenkmal zu Ehren der lettischen Einheiten der Waffen-SS
abgehalten. Zahlreiche Angehörige dieser „Legionen“ waren schon vor ihrem
Eintritt in die Waffen-SS am Massenmord an den lettischen Juden beteiligt. Etwa
160.000 Letten standen während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in den Diensten der
deutschen Mörder.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Damit gehört Lettland mit
Estland, Litauen, Ungarn, der Ukraine und Bulgarien zu jenen osteuropäischen
Staaten, in denen Einheiten der Waffen-SS und andere mit den Nazis
kollaborierende antisemitische Todesschwadronen als nationale Idole gefeiert
werden. Dies geschieht mit staatlicher Duldung und teilweise offener
Unterstützung durch Behörden. So wurde erst Ende 2017 in Lettland ein Gesetz
erlassen, in dem Soldaten, die als Kollaborateure der Nazis gekämpft haben, mit
jenen der Anti-Hitler-Koalition gleichstellt werden. Man ehre offiziell alle
ehemaligen lettischen Soldaten als Veteranen des Zweiten Weltkriegs – also auch
die Waffen-SS-Angehörigen.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Der Rigaer „Ehrenmarsch“
ist eine unerhörte Provokation für die Angehörigen der Opfer der lettischen
Polizei und SS-Verbände. Für jüdische, russischsprachige und andere
Minderheiten im Land ist er Symbol alltäglicher Diskriminierung und
Ausgrenzung. Das SS-Gedenken steht nicht nur im Gegensatz zu den Grundwerten
der Europäischen Union, deren sonstige Vorzüge der lettische Staat andererseits
gerne entgegennimmt, sondern ist auch eine Provokation gegenüber der Russischen
Föderation und damit eine Gefahr für den Frieden in Europa. Nicht zuletzt sei
daran erinnert, dass ab Ende 1941 auch Juden aus dem Deutschen Reich in das
Ghetto Riga deportiert und dort und in den umliegenden Wäldern unter Mithilfe
von lettischen Kollaborateuren ermordet wurden.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Seit vielen Jahren
protestieren lettische und internationale Antifaschist*innen gegen diesen
Aufmarsch, unter ihnen auch immer wieder Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Leiter des
Simon-Wiesenthal-Zentrums in Jerusalem. Antifaschist*innen werden in Lettland
erheblichen Repressalien ausgesetzt und teilweise durch willkürliche
polizeiliche Festnahmen im Vorfeld des Aufmarsches von Protesten abgehalten.
Auch Unterstützer*innen, die aus Deutschland und anderen Ländern anreisen,
waren schon von Reisebeschränkungen, Behördenschikanen, Polizeiwillkür,
staatlicher Einflussnahme auf Hotels und Veranstaltungsunternehmen betroffen.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">So wurden 2016 fünf
Mitglieder der VVN-BdA über mehrere Stunden auf dem Flughafen von Riga
festgehalten, weil sie sich an den Protesten gegen den Ehrenmarsch für die Waffen-SS
beteiligen wollten. Danach wurden sie in einem Gefangenentransportwagen
fortgeschafft und nach Litauen abgeschoben. Auch das Jahr darauf unterband die
lettische Polizei faktisch jeden Protest.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Umso wichtiger ist es,
kontinuierlich Solidarität mit den lettischen Antifaschist*innen zu zeigen. Die
VVN-BdA und die Mitgliedsverbände der Internationalen Föderation der
Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) rufen dazu auf, am 16. März an antifaschistischen
Kundgebungen vor den ständigen Vertretungen des lettischen Staats in Europa
teilzunehmen und gegen die Verherrlichung von NS-Kollaborateuren und
Massenmördern zu protestieren und Freiheit für Lettlands Antifaschist*innen zu
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Die Berliner VVN-BdA ruft
für<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Freitag den 16. März 2018,
14.00 – 16.00 Uhr<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>zu einer
Mahnwache vor der<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>lettischen
Botschaft in der Reinerzstr. 40/41, 14193 Berlin Grunewald auf.</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Wir fordern:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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NS-Kollaborateuren und Mördern!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Beteiligung am nazistischen Völkermord!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts country-by-country
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regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for
dealing with the problems identified. In the report on Latvia published on
February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the authorisation of certain
public events to commemorate two incidents and the authorities’ reaction in
this connection. As concerns the first incident, every year, on 16 March, a
gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian unit of the Waffen SS
is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI regrets that, in spring
2010, an administrative district court overruled a decision of the Riga City
Council 27 prohibiting this march. Moreover, ECRI is concerned that the speaker
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">“When survivors of Nazi concentration camps in 1945 stood holding signs saying “never again,” they could not have foreseen what is happening today in Riga. These are the people we should be commemorating and this is the message we should remember.” (Richard Howitt, British Labour Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson for the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/british-mep-richard-howitt-spokesperson-human-rights-issues-statement-riga-waffen-ss-march/64673"> on 13 March 2014</a>)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In Europe, the 2008 Prague Declaration caused alarm among many Jewish communities by conflating crimes under Soviet Communism with Nazi crimes. The concern here is that some countries have attempted to deflect attention from the complicity of their wartime governments in the Holocaust, using this as a cynical attempt to avoid liability for compensation to Jewish victims. The crimes that Communist governments committed against their people should be explored and the perpetrators prosecuted, but it is important that countries acknowledge their role in the Holocaust and do not attempt to dismiss a very troubled period in their history by reference to what happened under Communism.</span></div>
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have, on the 16th March, been marching in the centre of the capital city of
Riga, accompanied by supporters of all generations, to commemorate and herald
their fallen colleagues as war ‘heroes’. The marches have over the years
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the heart of NATO, in an EU country, in Riga, more than 2,500 people,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> <span lang="EN-US">(75% of them under the age of 30), gathered </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">to pay tribute to
Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during
World War II</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amongst
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Germany, Norway and Denmark and</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Latvian officials and MEP members.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Over the years the marches have been attended by
the Latvian Chief-of-Staff, Secretary of Defense, members of the Seim and
current and former ministers and officials. They herald the Latvian SS veterans
as war heroes and freedom fighters as they claim they fought in German ranks to
hold back a greater evil, the Soviet Union</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Latvians</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> believe that the Latvian Waffen SS legion could not have played a
role in the Holocaust as it was not officially formed until 1943 when nearly
all of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered. However, a substantial amount
of evidence including a series of personal accounts and confirmation received
from the trial of German Nazi Adolph Eichmann, supports that unknown numbers of
Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had indeed been previously involved in the murder of
Jews as auxiliary police between 1941 and 1942. <span style="color: #2f2f2f;">90
percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42</span>,
only one in ten survived<span style="color: #2f2f2f;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in
Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "ladlmi+timesnewroman" , "serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Approximately 62,000 of them were killed
during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August
1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">joined by the
so-called Arā</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">js Commando and assisted by
Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941
approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully
organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Ar</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">ā</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">js Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the
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</span>Killers who prior to joining the legion in 1943 had been part of 16
auxiliary police (SD) battalions that had previously taken an active part in
the liquidating of ghettos in Latvia, Belarus and Poland, as well as in the
destruction of civilian villages in Belarus and Russia’s Pskov region.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Killers who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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performers of the Holocaust in Europe, executioners of Latvian, Vilna, Warsaw
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(Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the
members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations
of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all
considered «Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS,
almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while
their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were
mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which became the most decorated
non-German Waffen SS unit. It was the 15<sup>th</sup> infantry division who
entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the
Third Reich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Latvian legion formed in the winter of 1943 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was ,under Hitler’s orders ,formally
established<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 16<sup>th </sup>1944<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is consensus amongst all Latvian
historians that the day marks the only time, the two Divisions of the Legion
(15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup>) fought together against the Red
Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, by making the 16th
March a day to remember war dead,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Latvians,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(despite Latvian
official protestations to the contrary), are making the day<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15<sup>th</sup>
and 19<sup>th</sup> divisions of the SS an act of commemoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even
if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and
that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to commemorate the Legion is far
from being a positive act and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a far cry
from a policy to GLORIFY them. Glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during
World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance that in 2008 explicitly
stated, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘All attempts to commemorate
persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis should be
condemned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any gathering or march
legitimising in any way Nazism should be banned’</i>, in January this year,
many Latvian policymakers expressed their respect and admiration of former SS
veterans. Political party “Visu Latviyyay!” announced that it is preparing a
bill declaring the veterans of the SS Legion as national liberation movement
fighters. Under the bill, former SS soldiers in Latvia will enjoy many benefits
and advantages, in contrast to the veterans of the Allied forces who fought
against Nazism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://bnn-news.com/latvian-anti-nazi-committee-presented-with-protest-restrictions-on-16-march-181904">http://bnn-news.com/latvian-anti-nazi-committee-presented-with-protest-restrictions-on-16-march-181904</a><br />
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<a href="https://eadaily.com/en/news/2018/03/15/riga-mayor-permits-neo-nazi-march-in-city-center">https://eadaily.com/en/news/2018/03/15/riga-mayor-permits-neo-nazi-march-in-city-center</a><br />
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<a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1552217-on-target-latvia-wrong-to-glorify-nation%E2%80%99s-nazi-past">http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1552217-on-target-latvia-wrong-to-glorify-nation%E2%80%99s-nazi-past</a> 11 March 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://defendinghistory.com/did-latvias-foreign-minister-just-honor-a-nazi-cheerleader-and-proven-antisemite/93928&source=gmail&ust=1520590936218000&usg=AFQjCNHEAF29OEpv423piSLx8b9swgXsxg" href="http://defendinghistory.com/did-latvias-foreign-minister-just-honor-a-nazi-cheerleader-and-proven-antisemite/93928" id="m_-6467721506233465810yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520471982819_5419" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr></span>did-latvias-foreign-minister-<wbr></wbr>just-honor-a-nazi-cheerleader-<wbr></wbr>and-proven-antisemite/93928</a> 8 March 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/poland-isnt-the-only-country-trying-to-police-speech-about-the-holocaust/">https://www.timesofisrael.com/poland-isnt-the-only-country-trying-to-police-speech-about-the-holocaust/</a> 7 February 2018</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBANKlgBaoE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBANKlgBaoE</a> SEARCHING FOR THE UNKNOWN HOLOCAUST, Boris Maftzir`s project. 30 Jan 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/holocaust-eastern-europe.html?smid=tw-share"><span style="color: #cc6611;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/holocaust-eastern-europe.html?smid=tw-share</span></a> Jan 26 2018</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #777777;"><strong>Paul Stock article on NATO's latest film, Hope Not Hate Nov/Dec 2017</strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #777777;"><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/02/nato-forest-brothers-movie-madness-worst/%C2%A0"><span style="color: #cc6611;">ht</span><span style="color: #777777;">tp://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/02/nato-forest-brothers-movie-madness-worst/ </span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #777777;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rQFp7FF9c"><span style="color: #cc6611;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rQFp7FF9c</span></a><span style="color: black;"> NATO's most recent film on the Forest Brothers 11 July 2017</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-court-rules-that-depicting-nazi-violence-of-1941-on-a-placard-is-illegal/90473" rel="bookmark" target="_blank" title="Permalink to Latvian Court Rules Against a Protester Who Turned Out Against the Annual Waffen SS March">Latvian Court Rules Against a Protester Who Turned Out Against the Annual Waffen SS March</a> by <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/kuzmin-aleksandr" target="_blank">Aleksandr Kuzmin</a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Riga) published by Defendinghistory.com 16 October 2017</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://espritdecorps.ca/on-target-4/on-target-nazi-connections-minister-freeland-deflects-and-latvia-openly-celebrates">http://espritdecorps.ca/on-target-4/on-target-nazi-connections-minister-freeland-deflects-and-latvia-openly-celebrates</a> by Scott Taylor published by Canadian Military Magazine March 13 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>"Don’t Stand By!", Mr Lidington<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Monica Lowenberg published by Hope Not Hate, Sunday, 20 March 2016<br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/HOPE-not-hate-international2f-Don%C2%B9t-Stand-By-Mr-Lidington.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/</span><span style="color: #cc6611;">wp-content/uploads/2017/06/HOPE-not-hate-international2f-Don¹t-Stand-By-Mr-Lidington.pdf</span></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">article with full links:</span></strong></span><br />
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DefendingHistory.com 4 February 2014<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-capital-of-european-culture-waffen-ss-stags-and-silence/63468#more-63468"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://defendinghistory.com/riga-capital-of-european-culture-waffen-ss-stags-and-silence/63468#more-63468</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european">https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european</a> 16 March 2012</div>
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Fest yesterday in Riga... Well done to the Latvian government for nourishing
and cherishing such a dismal affiliation, really good PR for an OSCE, NATO EU
country in the 21st century... The Belgians want to be remembered for their
chocolate, the Germans for their cars and the Latvians, well, the Latvians
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. Add your voice to the petition against the annual glorification of the SS in Riga, 16 March 2018: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</a></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial";">"Don’t Stand By!",Mr Lidington <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Monica Lowenberg , published by HOPE not hate<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sunday, 20 March 2016</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">article with full links:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #1d2129;"><a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/opinion/europes-dangerous-holocaust-revisionism/">https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/opinion/europes-dangerous-holocaust-revisionism/</a></span></strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/holocaust-eastern-europe.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/opinion/holocaust-eastern-europe.html?smid=tw-share</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rQFp7FF9c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rQFp7FF9c</a> NATO's most recent film on the Forest Brothers<br />
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<span style="color: #777777;"><strong>Paul Stock article on NATO's latest film, Hope Not Hate Nov/Dec 2017</strong> </span><br />
<span style="color: #777777;"><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/02/nato-forest-brothers-movie-madness-worst/ ">ht<span style="color: #777777;">tp://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/02/nato-forest-brothers-movie-madness-worst/ </span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #777777;">Mary Dejevsky 22 September 2017 Independent</span><br />
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Jonathan Marcus 20 September 2017 BBC News<br />
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10 September 2017 Scott Taylor</div>
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<span style="color: #777777;">12 March 2017 Scott Taylor</span></div>
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<strong>Latvian Court Rules Against Anti-Nazi Protestors</strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.jungewelt.de/m/artikel/320672.waffen-ss-rehabilitiert.html">https://www.jungewelt.de/m/artikel/320672.waffen-ss-rehabilitiert.html</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-UDFXo6rU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-UDFXo6rU</a> Excellent documentary on the Latvian Arajs Kommando- Nazi collaborators who joined the 15th and 19th Latvian SS divisions in 1943</div>
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Over 2,000 people attended the SS glorification march this
year amongst them 'lawmakers'. Articles stating that less people would
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were seriously misleading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact
more people attended in 2017 than in previous years as
StormFront members proudly noted on their website. Five protesters were
violently arrested and Riga town hall decided
that antifascists should protest in a pit behind the
bridge over the canal.... If that is not fascism at work what is? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A big thank you to all the brave protesters!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hundreds of people came out to protest from Athens to Lisbon to Budapest to
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Ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union slightly more than a quarter of a century ago, the role played by local Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes has been a bone of contention throughout eastern Europe. Rather than adopting the accepted Western chronicle of World War II and the Holocaust, local authorities in many Eastern European post-Communist countries have sought to create an alternative narrative of the events in order to achieve two major objectives.<br />
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In this regard, it is important to note that only in Eastern Europe did assistance to the Nazis include active participation in mass murder. Although the Nazis’ local helpers throughout Europe were involved everywhere in the implementation of the initial stages of the Final Solution (which constitutes being an accessory to murder), only in the East, where a large percentage of the victims were shot to death near their homes rather than being deported to death camps in German-occupied Poland, were the collaborators fully integrated into the mass murder operations.<br />
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The second objective is to convince world opinion that the crimes of the Soviet Union and its satellite Communist regimes were equally evil when compared to those of the Nazis, and that these crimes, too, constituted genocide. Historically inaccurate, the canard of equivalency is politically of central importance to certain quarters in Eastern and Central Europe where, by claiming to be victims of the worst crime imaginable, they seek to deflect or avoid painful discussions about local participation by their nationals in Holocaust crimes.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <a href="http://www.la.lv/legionaru-pieminas-pasakums-noritejis-bez-butiskiem-starpgadijumiem-pieci-aizturetie/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.la.lv/legionaru-pieminas-pasakums-noritejis-bez-butiskiem-starpgadijumiem-pieci-aizturetie/</span></a>
Note tweet from Janis Iesalnieks parliamentary
secretary to the minister of justice who attended the march in 2015 <a href="https://twitter.com/JanisIesalnieks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span style="color: blue;">https://twitter.com/JanisIesalnieks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw</span></a>
. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the following link </span><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/antifasisti-nodezinfice-brivibas-pieminekla-apkartni-legionaru-pieminas-pasakumi-beidzas-mierigi.d?id=45694098"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/antifasisti-nodezinfice-brivibas-pieminekla-apkartni-legionaru-pieminas-pasakumi-beidzas-mierigi.d?id=45694098</span></a> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> previously referred to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the article ‘Don't Stand by
Mr Lidington’ published by Hope Not Hate 20 March 2017, <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dzintars Rasnačš
minister of justice stated 3 March 2015 he would , (despite the
2014 ban ),attend the SS march in 2015, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as he has done in all previous
years .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The article has strangely
disappeared this year</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">however,<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">see article dated 13 January 2015 showing photos of Rasnacs attending
the march in 2014 while <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/latvia-minister-einars-cilinskis-nazi-memorial-row" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Minister Einars Cilinskis</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">was sacked for doing so</span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
</span><b><span lang="LV" style="color: #1f497d; mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.la.lv/tieslietu-ministrs-plano-piedalities-16-marta-pasakuma-pie-brivibas-pieminekla/"><span style="color: #003566;">http://www.la.lv/tieslietu-ministrs-plano-piedalities-16-marta-pasakuma-pie-brivibas-pieminekla/</span></a>
</span></b><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and also article dated 14 January 2015 where
the minister for justice confirmed that he goes to the march every year </span><span lang="LV" style="color: #555353; mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://www.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/latvija/zinas/rasnachs-16.marta-noliks-ziedus-lestene-tachu-par-liidzdaliibu-g.a113692/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/latvija/zinas/rasnachs-16.marta-noliks-ziedus-lestene-tachu-par-liidzdaliibu-g.a113692/</span></a>
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above articles prove that truth for the Latvian government and its very active
propaganda machine is what one can get away with <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/policy/information-on-the-history-of-latvia/the-latvian-government-s-position-on-16-march-events"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/policy/information-on-the-history-of-latvia/the-latvian-government-s-position-on-16-march-events</span></a>
see paragraph four! No minsters attend! Really!</span><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">See also <span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Latvian ambassador to Canada, Karlis
Eihenbaums’ rebuttal to Scott Taylor's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>article
</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1449770-on-target-nazis-and-canada%E2%80%99s-latvian-love-in"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1449770-on-target-nazis-and-canada%E2%80%99s-latvian-love-in</span></a>
</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="LV">that quite
correctly stated the facts regarding the march and in turn questioned Canada
supporting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a country that honours those who collaborated with the Nazis ,
a value Canada does not share <a href="http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1451374-rebuttal-no-celebration-of-fascism-in-Latvia">http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1451374-rebuttal-no-celebration-of-fascism-in-Latvia</a></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span lang="LV">
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2014, in his capacity as Latvian foreign ministry spokesman Eihenbaums told AFP
in response to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Latvia hitting a low
note in its musical history, after Latvian theatres staged a musical heralding <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mass murderer and member of the notorious Arajs
Kommando Herbert Cukurs as a hero, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">”It’s totally unacceptable to portray people
like this as heroes,” </span><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">But
he added that while Latvia “has consistently condemned war crimes”, as a
democracy it supports freedom of speech. !</span><span lang="LV" style="mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did not extend itself to the protesters who at the opening night <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the musical<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>were according to Dr <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Efraim
Zuroff , chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moved
away by police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same treatment was
given to protesters at the SS fest last year, 5 German protesters were arrested on arrival at
the airport and this year peaceful protesters were forced to stand in a pit </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>behind the bridge over the canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free
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The Latvian government must truly think
that its allies in the EU, NATO and OSCE are completely stupid <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>however,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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cannot fool all the people all the time.</span></span></i><span lang="LV" style="color: #555353; mso-ansi-language: LV; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkbWMGokbg"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkbWMGokbg</span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to church and then attend a Waffen SS
march- a fun day out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remembering the
dead?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can’t see any tears, only stubbornness
and smiles</div>
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Soldatenlieder<br />
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<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/381085-riga-march-latvian-waffen-ss/">https://www.rt.com/news/381085-riga-march-latvian-waffen-ss/</a> clip of the march and clip of the protesters<br />
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<strong>International Protests:</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.protesti.lv/foto-15-3-2017-sesas-pilsetas-eiropa-proteste-pret-waffen-ss-legionaru-gajienu-riga/">http://www.protesti.lv/foto-15-3-2017-sesas-pilsetas-eiropa-proteste-pret-waffen-ss-legionaru-gajienu-riga/</a></strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.fir.at/en/">http://www.fir.at/en/</a><br />
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<strong>Protest in Berlin:</strong><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiWdqO27yC4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiWdqO27yC4</a><br />
Eva Nickel, Raoul Walberg-Loge, Rede am15.3.17 Protestkundgebung vor Lett. Botschaft Berlin <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT6ua59fLo8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT6ua59fLo8</a><br />
Volker Beck, MdB, Rede am 15.3.2017 Protestkundgebg. lettische Botschaft Berlin <br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/german-member-of-parliament-volker-beck-joins-protest-at-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87225">http://defendinghistory.com/german-member-of-parliament-volker-beck-joins-protest-at-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87225</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WOtlcDurdI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WOtlcDurdI</a><br />
Monika Lowenberg, London, Beitrag Protestkundgbg. lettische Botschaft Berlin <br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenbergs-speech-at-the-protest-outside-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87235">http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenbergs-speech-at-the-protest-outside-the-latvian-embassy-in-berlin/87235</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1815577745326374&id=100006224985646&pnref=story">https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1815577745326374&id=100006224985646&pnref=story</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ausland-1/gedenkmarsch-der-veteranen-lettischer-ss-zwangsrekruten-ist-umstritten--134590434.html">http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ausland-1/gedenkmarsch-der-veteranen-lettischer-ss-zwangsrekruten-ist-umstritten--134590434.html</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://derstandard.at/2000054293009/Lettische-Waffen-SS-Veteranen-marschierten-erneut-durch-Riga"><span style="color: blue;">http://derstandard.at/2000054293009/Lettische-Waffen-SS-Veteranen-marschierten-erneut-durch-Riga</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Protest in Duesseldorf:</strong></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.report-d.de/Duesseldorf/Aktuelles/Duesseldorf-Protest-gegen-den-Schatten-der-lettischen-Waffen-SS-73629"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.report-d.de/Duesseldorf/Aktuelles/Duesseldorf-Protest-gegen-den-Schatten-der-lettischen-Waffen-SS-73629</span></a></span></div>
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The Latvian official statement is seriously misleading because of the vast government / member of parliament / public officials' complicity in giving the Waffen SS march societal status. To have an idea of the kind of support the Latvian government gives the marches, see links below which show state officials participating in and or praising the marches at the highest level. <strong> </strong>In 2012, for example, <strong>the Latvian president at the time,</strong> President Berzins stated that it is ridiculous to see Latvian SS veterans as criminals, rather we should 'bow our heads to them'! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html&source=gmail&ust=1489660110619000&usg=AFQjCNHvofT_726J_rqlxWkPpZCflDrWdw" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html&source=gmail&ust=1489660110619000&usg=AFQjCNHvofT_726J_rqlxWkPpZCflDrWdw" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/article-2108789/Youre-<wbr></wbr>trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-<wbr></wbr>Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-<wbr></wbr>plans-hold-rally-commemorate-<wbr></wbr>SS.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><strong>In previous years on March 16th, 2013 and 2012 more than 2,500 people, amongst them Latvian politicians, paid tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. In 2011 the Latvian Prime Minister told local media that he did not think March 16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> had ,“a special significance.”Legionnaires’ Day is used by radicals on both sides, “to confront each other” . In 2012, the Latvian president, President Berzins stated that it is ridiculous to see Latvian SS veterans as criminals, rather we should 'bow our heads to them'! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html&source=gmail&ust=1489660110620000&usg=AFQjCNFagBP_916ArNYSB8QXWGBpFGsAsw" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html&source=gmail&ust=1489660110620000&usg=AFQjCNFagBP_916ArNYSB8QXWGBpFGsAsw" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/article-2108789/Youre-<wbr></wbr>trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-<wbr></wbr>Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-<wbr></wbr>plans-hold-rally-commemorate-<wbr></wbr>SS.html</span></a><span style="color: #555555;">. In the same year those attending the march desecrated the wreath to the victims of Nazism. In 2013 two politicians attending the march attacked protesters and a photo of Robert Ancans SS Obersturmfuehrer was honoured at the base of the monument of freedom. In 2014 protesters from Berlin under Dr Hans Coppi VVN and Dr Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Jerusalem protested at the march, under heavy security their voices were virtually silenced. In 2015 Dr Efraim Zuroff and Defendinghistory.com monitored the march and their protests were heard by the world's press ( see media list at</span></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<li>See <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vosizneias.com/78744/2011/03/16/riga-latvia-latvians-honor-waffen-ss-fighters/&source=gmail&ust=1489660110620000&usg=AFQjCNGDJThziWv7Xtg9cDsKQac75e40ZA" href="http://www.vosizneias.com/78744/2011/03/16/riga-latvia-latvians-honor-waffen-ss-fighters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.vosizneias.com/<wbr></wbr>78744/2011/03/16/riga-latvia-<wbr></wbr>latvians-honor-waffen-ss-<wbr></wbr>fighters/</span></a><div>
<span style="color: #555555;">for photo of members of Latvia's Parliament Dzintars Rasnacs (3-L), Raivis</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;">Dzintars (C) and other participants during parade close to Freedom Monument</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;">in Riga, </span><strong><span style="color: #555555;">16 March 2011 </span></strong><span style="color: #555555;">commemorating those who fought in two German</span><span style="color: #555555;">Waffen-SS divisions in World War II.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">See <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://foto.delfi.lv/picture/2687824/&source=gmail&ust=1489660110620000&usg=AFQjCNERnvIE0i-DuHhcAFwbywaW0JwzfQ" href="http://foto.delfi.lv/picture/2687824/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://foto.delfi.lv/<wbr></wbr>picture/2687824/</span></a><span style="color: #555555;"> </span></span><span style="color: #555555;"> photo of the following members of the LNNK party attending the</span><span style="color: #555555;"><strong> 2012 SS march:</strong></span><span style="color: #555555;">Raivis Dzintars (VL-TB/LNNK), Jānis Dombrava(VL-TB/LNNK), Inara<div>
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<li><strong><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: small;">No honouring of the Latvian Waffen-SS!</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Call for international protests</span></strong></span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://vvn-bda.de/keine-ehrung-der-lettischen-waffen-ss-internationale-protestkundgebungen/">http://vvn-bda.de/keine-ehrung-der-lettischen-waffen-ss-internationale-protestkundgebungen/</a></span></strong><br />
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/stop-16-march-marches-in-riga-latvia.html" rel="nofollow">http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/stop-16-march-marches-in-riga-latvia.html</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/riga-waffen-ss-marches" rel="nofollow">http://defendinghistory.com/category/riga-waffen-ss-marches</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica" rel="nofollow">http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica</a></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> On 16 March, as in previous years since 1991, in the Latvian capital of Riga and after a Lutheran church service, an honorary march and flag-lined rally will take place at the Freedom Monument to honour Latvian units of the Waffen-SS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> The 'March of Honour' in Riga is an unprecedented provocation towards relatives of victims of the Latvian police and SS associations and the Jewish, Russian-speaking and other minorities in the country. The march is not only in conflict with the fundamental values of the European Union, whose advantages the Latvian state likes to accept, but is also a provocation against the Russian Federation and thus a threat to peace in Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> In Latvia, anti-fascist demonstrators are exposed to considerable reprisals (telephone monitoring, travel restrictions, administrative chicanery, police, state influence on hotels and event organisers). This also applies to supporters who come from Germany and other countries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> It is therefore all the more important to show solidarity with the Latvian antifascists in 2017. The VVN-BdA and the member federations of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) <strong>call for a trip to Riga to participate in the anti-fascist demonstration on 16 March</strong>.</span></div>
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<strong>We call for protest messages to be presented to Latvian Embassy and Latvian consulates on the 15th of March!</strong></div>
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(On how to get to Riga email: <a href="mailto:bundesbuero@vvn-bda.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">bundesbuero@vvn-bda.de</span></a> or call 030-5557-9083-2)</div>
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From Budapest to Lisbon international protests took place 15 March 2017 infront of Latvian embassies. Over 100 people protested in Athens alone stating in clear terms:</h2>
RESOLUTION FOR THE RALLY OF PEAEA-DSE IN FRONT OF THE LATVIAN EMBASSY IN ATHENS To the President of the Republic of Latvia Mister President, We vehemently protest in the name of the thousands of our members, Resistance fighters of WW2, their descendants and their friends, against the state support and facilitation you give to the Neo-nazis and their descendants who have the impudence to “honor” the Nazi criminals-murderers and the Latvian Waffen-SS with their rally and march in Riga planned for March 16, 2017. Respect for the Memory of tenths of millions victims of the Nazis and their collaborators makes it necessary to ban and to isolate those who “praise and honor” such beasts in human disguise calling them “liberators” in contrast with the real historical facts. It is evident that whoever identifies himself in any way with those scums, identifies himself, too, with their criminal atrocities and as such they will remain in history. We want to denounce the EU which in the Balkan countries and in other member-states as well, tolerates, reinforces and supports governments that endorse such ideas. The Hitler-fascists, the Nazi, the Waffen-SS and their collaborators have been condemned for ever and irrevocably in the consciousness of the Peoples. We demand that you stop in any possible manner the fascist rally and the march of the eulogists of the Nazi and of the Latvian Waffen-SS. Athens, March 15, 2017<br />
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Am 16. März wird es in der lettischen Hauptstadt Riga - wie jedes Jahr seit 1991 - zu einem Gottesdienst, einem Ehrenmarsch und einer fahnengesäumten Kundgebung am Freiheitsdenkmal zu Ehren der lettischen Einheiten der Waffen-SS kommen. <u></u><u></u></div>
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Lettland gehört mit Estland, Litauen, der Ukraine und Bulgarien zu den osteuropäischen Staaten in denen Einheiten der Waffen-SS und andere mit den Nazis kollaborierende antisemitische Todesschwadronen als nationale Idole gefeiert werden. Dies geschieht mit staatlicher Duldung und teilweise offener Unterstützung durch Behörden. <u></u><u></u></div>
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Der Rigaer „Ehrenmarsch“ ist eine unerhörte Provokation für die Angehörigen der Opfer der lettischen Polizei und SS-Verbände und für die jüdische, russischsprachige und andere Minderheiten im Land. Er steht nicht nur im Gegensatz zu den Grundwerten der Europäischen Union, deren sonstige Vorzüge der lettische Staat andererseits gerne entgegennimmt, sondern ist auch eine Provokation gegenüber der Russischen Föderation und damit eine Gefahr für den Frieden in Europa.<u></u><u></u></div>
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In Lettland werden antifaschistische Demonstrant*innen erheblichen Repressalien (Telefonüberwachung, Reisebeschränkungen, Behördenschikanen, Polizeiwillkür, staatliche Einflussnahme auf Hotels und Veranstaltungsunternehmen) ausgesetzt. Dies gilt auch für Unterstützer*innen, die aus Deutschland und anderen Ländern anreisen.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Umso wichtiger ist es, auch 2017 Solidarität mit den lettischen Antifaschist*innen zu zeigen. Die VVN-BdA und die Mitgliedsverbände der Internationalen Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) rufen dazu auf, nach Riga zu reisen und am 16. März an der antifaschistischen Kundgebung teilzunehmen.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span><b><u>in Rom, Brüssel, Budapest und Athen<u></u><u></u></u></b></div>
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vor lettischen Botschaften und Konsulaten in Europa gegen die Verherrlichung von NS-Kollaborateuren und Massenmördern zu protestieren und Freiheit für Lettlands Antifaschist*innen zu fordern. <u></u><u></u></div>
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Die VVN-BdA ruft auf zu Mahnwachen vor der lettischen Botschaft und den Honorarkonsulaten in <u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span><b><u>Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt und Düsseldorf.</u></b><b><u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span>Schluss mit der Ehrung von NS-Kollaborateuren und Mördern!<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span>Anerkennen der baltischen Beteiligung am nazistischen Völkermord! <u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span>Freiheit für „Lettland ohne Nazismus“!<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "symbol";">· </span><b>Wir rufen für den 15. März auf zu Protestkundgebungen vor der lettischen Botschaft und lettischen Konsulaten!<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes –
Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA) e.V.
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Magdalenenstr. 19, 10365 Berlin
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>published in the AJR Journal (Association of
Jewish Refugees, UK), Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 by Monica Lowenberg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also published by Second Generation Network,
Voices<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 2012 and</span></span><br />
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Mr Lidington.</span></b></em><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"> Opinion piece by Monica
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framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts country-by-country
monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States
regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for
dealing with the problems identified. In the report on Latvia published on
February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the authorisation of certain
public events to commemorate two incidents and the authorities’ reaction in
this connection. As concerns the first incident, every year, on 16 March, a
gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian unit of the Waffen SS
is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI regrets that, in spring
2010, an administrative district court overruled a decision of the Riga City
Council 27 prohibiting this march. Moreover, ECRI is concerned that the speaker
of the Latvian Parliament allegedly publicly expressed regret for the formal
prohibition of this event and that certain MPs have voted for the restoration
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SEE </span><a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/uk"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UK PAGE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; ALSO: </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-parliamentarian-vytenis-andriukaitis-signatory-of-70-years-declaration-replies-to-foreign-ministers-joke-on-the-holocaust/30647"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">VYTENIS POVILAS ANDRIUKAITIS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/03/latvia-far-right-nazi-links"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PETER BEAUMONT</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2750"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BOB BLACKMAN</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/85902/the-little-european-problem-conservatives-would-prefer-forget"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MARTIN BRIGHT</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/riga-and-the-waffen-ss-fa_b_3046374.html"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RICHARD BRODSKY</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/women-of-courage-rachel-margolis-2236081.html"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GORDON BROWN</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=6362"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SIMON BUTT</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/07/conservatives-latvia-war-crimes"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DAVID CESARANI</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/text-of-the-letter-from-mep-leonidas-donskis-on-the-ambrazevicius-brazaitis-festivities/35485"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LEONIDAS DONSKIS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;
</span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/67054/neo-nazi-youth-group-eu-funded-council"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MARCUS DYSCH</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/conservatives-european-allies-holocaust-deniers"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JONATHAN FREEDLAND</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/14/double-genocide-lithuania-holocaust-communism/print"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BARRY GARDINER</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/20/holocaust-michal-kaminski?INTCMP=SRCH"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AMELIA GENTLEMAN</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;
</span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/red-brown-commissions/critiques#sirmartingilbert"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SIR MARTIN GILBERT</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010Oct7EstherGoldberg.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ESTHER GOLDBERG</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/11/european-latvia-party"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MEHDI HASAN</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/never-again"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DOVID KATZ</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Dovid-Katz-op-ed-in-London-Jewish-News-13-Dec-2012.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/11958563?story_id=11958563"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EDWARD LUCAS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/07/poland-kaminski-european"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JAMES MACINTYRE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/21/conservatives-europe-foreign-policy"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">DENIS MACSHANE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/conservatives-europe-miliband-hague-kaminski"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/21392/europe-must-focus-baltic-hate"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JOHN MANN</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2161"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELL</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/16456/rabbi-blasts-tories-over-euro-allies"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RABBI BARRY MARCUS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/06/davidcameron-conservatives"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;
</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-soviet-pact"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SEUMAS MILNE</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2010MarchPapodopolousInGovGazette.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MARCUS PAPADOPOULOS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;
</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/european-commission-communist-crimes-nazism"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LEIGH PHILLIPS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/17/lithuanias-double-genocide-policy"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TESSA RAJAK</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00c74k5"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WENDY ROBBINS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/9586844.Teacher_fights_to_stop_Latvian_march_that_treats_Nazi_s_like__heroes_/r/?ref=rss"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ANNA SLATER</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/64800/calls-ban-baltic-neo-nazi-marches"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EMMA STOCK</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/55161/wreaths-laid-doubt-hangs-air"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GEOFF VASIL</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7495696.stm"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TIM WHEWELL</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EFRAIM ZUROFF</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/25859/a-sinister-scheme-devalue-shoah-gathering-steam"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(2)</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, the central message was <a href="http://hmd.org.uk/resources/theme-papers/hmd-2016-dont-stand"><span style="color: blue;">“Don’t
Stand By!”</span></a> the British Conservatives having invested huge sums in the event
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Admirable and noble intentions, indeed. Nevertheless, when one considers
that, in 2009, the same British Conservatives – intent on moving away from
Merkel and Sarkozy – set up shop with a rag-bag of ultra-nationalists from
Latvia, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/22/conservatives-new-eu-group"><span style="color: blue;">the
National Alliance</span></a> which, each and every year since 1998, has supported
glorification of the Latvian legionnaires who joined the brutal 15th and 19th
divisions of the SS, then one can only question how serious the British
Conservatives really are regarding Holocaust education, especially if they show
such duplicitous standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/camerons-latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss-march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105"><span style="color: blue;">2009
Latvian liaison</span></a> started, only three years later the Latvians set up, the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/summary-coverage-on-monument-in-bauska-to-honor-waffen-ss-updated-to-12-oct-2012/43951"><span style="color: blue;">first
memorial in Europe to honour the SS</span></a>! The British Conservatives said
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To date there have been <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2750"><span style="color: blue;">two</span></a> <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866"><span style="color: blue;">Early Day Motions</span></a> on the
matter, talks in the <a href="http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/093/1709384.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Bundestag</span></a>,
talks in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruk83vhZJSM"><span style="color: blue;">the European
Jewish Parliament in Brussels</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance</span></a>, (a human rights body of the
Council of Europe) condemned the march, the UK Jewish Board of Deputies
contacted the Latvian ambassador and even wrote <a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EUManifesto.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">a manifesto</span></a>
stating that all attempts in the Baltics to equate Nazi crimes with Stalin
should be stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Additionally, the <a href="http://antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch/"><span style="color: blue;">All-Party
Parliamentary Group</span></a> against Antisemitism condemned the march and numerous <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-ambassador-to-the-uk-comments-on-march-16th-waffen-ss-march-in-riga/50988"><span style="color: blue;">British
politicians</span></a> of all persuasions voiced their concerns, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/british-mep-richard-howitt-spokesperson-human-rights-issues-statement-riga-waffen-ss-march/64673"><span style="color: blue;">Richard
Howitt,</span></a> a Labour MEP, writing a speech to be read out at the 2014 march by
Dr Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Letter-to-Latvian-Amb.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">and
Gareth Thomas</span></a>, former shadow Europe minister, writing <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Letter-to-FCO-re-Latvian-SS.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">numerous
letters</span></a>. In the face of all this, the British Foreign and Commonwealth
Office has remained steadfastly silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According to <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/uk-foreign-ministers-refusal-to-criticize-baltic-policies-promoting-glorification-of-nazism/52535"><span style="color: blue;">David
Lidington,</span></a> the current Europe minister, such “complex matters” are best
dealt with by historians, at the same time as failing to condemn Baltic state
policies and practices that promote glorification of Nazism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Since 2014, the Latvian parliament has made it illegal for any minister
to attend the march, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/latvia-minister-einars-cilinskis-nazi-memorial-row"><span style="color: blue;">Minister
Einars Cilinskis</span></a> from the National Alliance was sacked for doing so in 2014
but it has come to light that in 2015, despite the ban, <a href="http://www.diena.lv/latvija/politika/rasnacs-16-marta-gajiena-neies-bet-ziedus-pie-pieminekla-noliksot-14089769"><span style="color: blue;">justice
minister</span></a> Dzintars Rasnačš from the same party attended the march. He was
not sacked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fast forward to this year’s SS commemorative march and though the number
of participants may have dropped by a couple of hundred, around 1,000 still
attended, mainly young and misinformed…passionate in their deluded belief that their
fathers and grandfathers were freedom fighters against the Soviets rather than
collaborators with arguably the most genocidal regime the world has ever known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is reported that 13 members <a href="http://www.lsm.lv/en/article/societ/society/riga-gears-up-for-march-16-controversy.a172397/"><span style="color: blue;">of
Latvia’s parliament</span></a> attended the 2016 march, including <a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/story/den-pamyati-legionerov-v-rige-arhiv-tekstovoj-translyacii.d?id=47189879#!dgs=dgslv-74181:5307541"><span style="color: blue;">the
usual suspects</span></a> such as “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/world/europe/latvia-has-a-new-leader-as-fears-of-russia-and-migration-rise.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160212&nlid=67127061&tntemail0=y&_r=1"><span style="color: blue;">law
maker</span></a>” <a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/fillips-policiya-i-cvety-podborka-video-dnya-pamyati-legionerov.d?id=47194991"><span style="color: blue;">Janis
Dombrava</span></a> with his other “law making” friends from the National Alliance: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949#more-51949"><span style="color: blue;">MP
Raivis Dzintars</span></a> who thinks Nazi salutes are funny, <a href="https://dnipress.com/en/posts/ukrainian-azov-nazis-participated-in-riga-march-of-waffen-ss/"><span style="color: blue;">MP
Imants Paradnieks</span></a> who, outside the cathedral, befriended a group of <a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/paradnieks-azov-v-kolonnu-ne-pustili-po-prosbe-ukrainskogo-obschestva.d?id=47192619"><span style="color: blue;">Ukranian
Azov Battalion</span></a> nazis wearing <a href="http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/politics/news/2016-03-17/197513"><span style="color: blue;">Nazi insignia</span></a>
and proudly carrying <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html"><span style="color: blue;">blue,
yellow flags with swastika</span></a>s to the Monument of Freedom <a href="http://www.nacionalaapvieniba.lv/related-people/janis-atis-krumins/"><span style="color: blue;">and
Atis Jānis Krūmiņš fr</span></a>om Riga’s City Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/latvia___s_national_alliance_ministers_not_to_participate_in_march_16_events_in_riga/"><span style="color: blue;">No
ministers attended</span></a> but, as in previous years, <a href="http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/politics/legionaru-pasakums-lestene-kupli-apmeklets-gaidama-krituso-parbedisana-no-krievijas.d?id=45699492"><span style="color: blue;">quietly
slipped away</span></a> from the foreign press to the <a href="http://en.tracesofwar.com/article/27493/Latvian-War-Cemetery-Lestene.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Lestene
cemetery</span></a> where SS soldiers are buried. However, <a href="http://www.varam.gov.lv/lat/par_ministriju/ministrs/"><span style="color: blue;">Kaspars Gerhards,</span></a>
of the National Alliance and Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional
Development of the Republic of Latvia, did arrange for his parliamentary
secretary, <a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/story/den-pamyati-legionerov-v-rige-arhiv-tekstovoj-translyacii.d?id=47189879#!dgs=dgslv-74181:5307601"><span style="color: blue;">Jānis
Eglīts,</span></a> to attend the march and accompany the notorious right-wing Estonian
politician Jaak Madison there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaak_Madison"><span style="color: blue;">Madison</span></a> is the
man who in 2015 defended, on his old blog spot, the economic aspects of the
Nazi regime. At the Monument of Freedom Madison was promptly challenged by <a href="http://en.censor.net.ua/video_news/379400/kremlin_propagandist_graham_phillips_detained_in_latvia_video"><span style="color: blue;">Kremlin
stooge</span></a> and <a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/zaderzhannogo-za-provokacii-blogera-zhurnalista-fillipsa-otpustili.d?id=47191569"><span style="color: blue;">British
journalist Graham Philips</span></a> who quite rightly asked him, if he was not
ashamed to be attending a fascist march.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of numbers whilst Philips was swiftly whisked away by armed police and dumped
into a van to the amusement of the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Justice Minister Rasnačš did not attend the march, as he had illegally
done in 2015 – clearly he is above the law – but not so long ago his
parliamentary secretary, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjDjWGAiDbEu8-mu-oUySx5IIE-XsZ0pEK0ALz3yjbSxdxFuQ_5fl7MxaNpijgi7Zb_2K5iLhDGjETOdsvcA3ur6maI3_BYbDvYXGsqV8l3-lwlJwWML15DOgnJrMmTqKAlQVISwe_9is/s400/2012.03.16_01m.jpg"><span style="color: blue;">Jānis
Iesalnieks i</span></a>s known to have stated on Twitter that Norwegian mass killer <a href="https://books.google.lv/books?id=EUhMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=breiviks+iesalnieks&source=bl&ots=pYcYxqEg0V&sig=m1I9l4eWtHBFHJ_7oIe9UGL-lB8&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP9JCrmMrLAhWJq3IKHTnSAfkQ6AEIMzAD#v=onepage&q=breiviks%20iesalnieks&f=false"><span style="color: blue;">Anders
Breivik is a good boy</span></a>, to which Breivik responded by stating that the
National Alliance and Mr. Iesalnieks are in his <a href="http://apollo.tvnet.lv/zinas/norvegijas-policija-petis-radikalos-spekus-kas-mineti-breivika-manifesta/492155"><span style="color: blue;">imaginary
nazi network!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Alarmingly, The National Alliance, whose parliamentary secretaries
clearly have their uses, has been in the ruling coalition with the Greens <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/28/lett-j28.html"><span style="color: blue;">since February.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If all this was not enough, only a few days before the march, Kārlis
Seržants, <a href="http://titania.saeima.lv/Personal/Deputati/saeima11_depweb_public.nsf/0/0A25A7EAC1A64EC2C22579100046C568?OpenDocument&lang=LV"><span style="color: blue;">a
high-ranking Greens politician</span></a> who sits on the Latvian Parliament’s
national security committee outrageously stated, that <a href="http://www.lsm.lv/en/article/politics/government-mp-clever-jews-undermining-national-security.a173119/"><span style="color: blue;">“clever
Jews</span></a>” were compromising state security while <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/80430-2/80430"><span style="color: blue;">Cornelia Kerth</span></a>, chair of
one of Germany’s most important anti-fascist organisations, the Association of
Persons Persecuted by the Nazis/Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA), entered
Hamburg airport to board her flight with Air Baltic to Riga only to be informed
by the airport authorities that she could not board the plane as she was on a
“black list of the Latvian immigration authorities’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/German-anti-fascists-face-down-pro-Nazi-Latvian-demonstrators-in-Riga-448252"><span style="color: blue;">Five
other VVN-BdA members</span></a>, Thomas Willms, Markus Tervooren, Günther Hoppe,
Lothar Eberhard and Werner Müller, who took a Ryanair flight from Berlin,
thought they were lucky to be allowed into Riga, only to be immediately
arrested at Riga airport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They were informed that they fell <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/sites/antitrafficking/files/immigration_law_latvia_en_1.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">under
§61 of</span></a> Latvian immigration law, the <i>persona non grata</i> rule, which
can be applied when a “foreigner causes a threat to national security or public
order and safety.” And this in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area"><span style="color: blue;">Schengen zone!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The <a href="http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1005477.riga-schiebt-antifaschisten-ab.html"><span style="color: blue;">five
detained protesters</span></a> were given a choice of deportation or two-days
incarceration and chose the latter. In response, <a href="http://www.vvn-bda.de/gedenkmarsch-der-veteranen-der-lettischen-legion-der-waffen-ss-in-riga-deutsche-antifaschisten-abgeschoben-der-skandal-bleibt/"><span style="color: blue;">the
VVN</span></a> released, the day before the march, <a href="http://antifa-westberlin.org/466/#more-466"><span style="color: blue;">a statement</span></a> accusing the
Latvian authorities of “repression” against Latvian protesters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“For years, the march by <a href="https://www.r-mediabase.eu/index.php?view=detail&id=14347&option=com_joomgallery&Itemid=51"><span style="color: blue;">Waffen-SS
admirers</span></a> has enjoyed the protection of the Latvian government. The few anti-fascists
protesting…will be handled by politicians and the media as enemies of the
state”, it said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/story/den-pamyati-legionerov-v-rige-arhiv-tekstovoj-translyacii.d?id=47189879#!dgs=dgslv-74181:5307633"><span style="color: blue;">Dr
Efraim Zuroff of</span></a> the Simon Wiesenthal Centre agreed and branded the arrests
of the anti-fascists as “absurd” and “highly objectionable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘‘Anyone,” Zuroff said, “who fought for the victory of the Third Reich
shouldn’t be a hero.” The Latvian patriotic account often omits that about
70,000 Jews were exterminated in Latvia, largely with local collaboration,
while the Nazis were hailed as liberators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“The Latvian Legion did not directly participate in Holocaust crimes but
it did fight for the Germans and many of its members had previously taken part
in the mass murder of Jews as part of the Latvian security police and the Arajs
Kommando, a police unit connected to the German SD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The organisers of the Riga march continue to present the members of the
Legion as freedom fighters who paved the way for Latvian independence but
nothing could be further from the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Nazis had absolutely no intention of granting independence to any of
the Baltic countries and it is only because Nazi Germany lost the Second World
War that Latvia could regain its independence after the fall of the USSR.
People who fought for the victory of Third Reich should not be glorified as
heroes – such a victory would have meant the end of Western civilisation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Baltic nations’ ultra-nationalist marches in propaganda to falsely depict
the populations of those countries as fascist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“They are not,” he declared, “but they are also derelict in confronting
the canard that fighting alongside Nazis was patriotic, and that Soviet
domination was in any way comparable to the Holocaust.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nazis from the UK, Estonia and Ukraine whilst arresting law-abiding anti-fascists,
putting on huge <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/world/article/1579/latvian-state-dance-troupe-displays-nazi-swastika---exclusive"><span style="color: blue;">swastika
dances</span></a> at ice hockey matches, allowing Latvian youths to <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949"><span style="color: blue;">destroy
wreaths</span></a> <a href="http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/exclusive/news/2012-03-16/91454"><span style="color: blue;">to
the victims of Nazism, ignoring</span></a> international pressure to ban the SS march,
pleas from the ECRI, the PCAA, the Jewish Board of Deputies, Early Day Motions,
the <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/ABOUT.htm"><span style="color: blue;">Simon Wiesenthal
Centre,</span></a> the European Jewish Parliament in Brussels and MEPs like Richard
Howitt and by proudly stating to world press that, as from <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/latvia-waffen-ss-march-170/"><span style="color: blue;">2014, ministers are
not allowed to attend the march</span></a> but on the quiet one of them does in 2015
and is not sacked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Nor do they help themselves by ignoring the voices of their own
citizens, many of who are <a href="http://www.statelessness.eu/blog/latvia-condemning-older-generations-non-citizenship">ethnic Russians</a> and totally opposed to such
manifestations of Nazi glorification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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actively protested against it <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#more-32025"><span style="color: blue;">since
2012,</span></a> I have to ask today where will this situation lead as tensions
between the Baltic states and Russia escalate and when, suddenly, the murder of
thousands of innocent Jews by men who later joined the Latvian SS – and the
deaths of 1,500,000 innocent men, women and children, just outside Leningrad,
caused by starvation, as a consequence of the Nazi blockade that the Latvian 15<sup>th</sup>
and 19<sup>th</sup> SS divisions helped forge as they fought against the Red
Army – are not murders to be remembered and condemned but rather ignored or
just seen as another statistic, another sad casualty of war.</span></div>
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<em>'Sad day. In Riga where several hundred people turned out to honor the soldiers of the two Latvian SS divisions, who fought for a victory of Nazi Germany in WW I<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span></em><span class="text_exposed_show"><em>I. Portrayed as freedom fighters who paved the way for Latvian independence (which the Nazis had no intention of giving them), they included participants in the mass murder of Latvian Jewry and many thousands of Jews deported to Latvia to be murdered'</em> </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen to Dr Efraim Zuroff speaking on Monday 21 March on Salford City Radio 94.4FM </span></strong></div>
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<strong>Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Holocaust historian, Nazi-hunter, author, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office. <br />Talking to Salford City Radio, 94.4 FM regarding protesting against the Waffen SS march in Riga, Latvia, 16 March 2016</strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Latvia-must-come-to-terms-with-its-past-448705"><span style="color: #cc6611;">http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Latvia-must-come-to-terms-with-its-past-448705</span></a> </div>
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<strong>Interior Minister Rihards Kozlovskis on March 16 stating that only one person was arrested</strong> when in fact five law abiding German citizens were arrested at Riga airport for simply wishing to peacefully protest at the march. Note that the minister did not mention that Azov Neo Nazis attended the march or Holocaust revisionists such as Estonian politician Jaak Madison.</div>
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Liana Langa on setting the record straight<br />
Juris Ulmanis on the Legion and the National Guard<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"One of the purposes of the anti-fascists is to provoke the event participants," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">"By separating the different groups the risk of physical violence has been minimised," he added.</span><br />
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<strong>'Don't Stand By', Mr Lidington by Monica Lowenberg published by Hope Not Hate 20.03.2016</strong><br />
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<strong>In 2015 , despite the ban on ministers attending the march justice minister <span class="_5yl5">Dzintars Rasnačš from Nacional Aliance/ National Alliance attended the march </span></strong><a href="http://www.diena.lv/latvija/politika/rasnacs-16-marta-gajiena-neies-bet-ziedus-pie-pieminekla-noliksot-14089769">http://www.diena.lv/latvija/politika/rasnacs-16-marta-gajiena-neies-bet-ziedus-pie-pieminekla-noliksot-14089769</a></div>
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<strong>'Five members of the Berlin-based Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime/ Federation of Anti-Fascists (VVN-BdA) – Thomas Willms, Markus Tervooren, Günther Hoppe, Lothar Eberhard and Werner Müller – were detained by Latvian officials after landing in Riga on Tuesday, the group claimed. In addition, the organization’s leader, Cornelia Kerth, was denied permission to enter the country and was prevented from boarding an Air Baltic flight from Germany. </strong></div>
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<strong>Controversial British journalist Graham Philips was , after the above video had been taken, placed into jail, checked by the police for drugs and alcohol, sent back to his hotel, taken to the Russia boarder and refused entry into Latvia for the next 3 years. And his crime: he asked Estonian politician Jaak Madison if he was not ashamed for attending a fascist SS march.</strong><br />
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<strong>UNITED NATIONS, March 18. /TASS/. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon supports people’s right to assembly but condemns any open expression of support for the Nazis and the crimes they committed during World War Two, United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.</strong></div>
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Tomorrow's Waffen SS Fest in RIGA: A German group reports that some of its members were arrested while entering Latvia (both countries are within the borderless Schengen zone...) with the intention of peacefully protesting the annual Waffen SS event. </div>
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<span class="_3c21">RIGA—While Veterans of the Latvian legion of the Waffen-SS are allowed to march on tomorrow’s March 16th “Day of Legionnaires,” a group of antifascists from Germany was arrested while trying to enter Latvia to protest peacefully against the public glorification of the Waffen SS.</span><br />
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Tomorrow, the SS with clockwork regularity will march down the main street of an EU, NATO, OSCE capital, namely Riga in Latvia. Tomorrow, 16 March 2016, the Latvian SS will be glorified by thousands of Latvians who stubbornly persist in believing that these men, who worked for the most genocidal regime the world has ever known, are freedom fighters rather than mass murderers. 95.6% of Latvia's pre war Jewish population were murdered in <span class="text_exposed_show">1941 by many of the men who then later joined the 15th and 19th divisions of the SS ( the most brutal one should add) in 1943. Tomorrow these men will be glorified but TODAY sincere and law abiding EU citizens such as Cornelia Kerth , chairwomen of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime are not permitted to light their plane with Baltic Air from Berlin to Riga and Thomas Willms, Markus Tervooren, Günther Hoppe, Lothar Eberhard and Werner Müller, men with no criminal track record were arrested today at Riga airport, their crime: they peacefully and legally protested against the march in 2014 and have dared to do the same tomorrow, 16 March 2016, two years later. </span><br />
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As a consequence 50 people protested outside the Latvian embassy in Berlin this evening against the measures taken by the Latvian state. <br />
The 5 arrestees have now been deported to the Latvian/Lithuanian border where they will be placed on a bus back to Germany. They will arrive back in Berlin around 10am tomorrow just when the march will be about to start... <br />
facebook contact: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VVNBdA/">https://www.facebook.com/VVNBdA/</a><br />
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<a href="http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160315/1036337444/nazi-parade-war-latvia.html">http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160315/1036337444/nazi-parade-war-latvia.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.dielinke-europa.eu/article/10367.lettland-sperrt-antifaschistinnen-aus-und-hofiert-waffen-ss-fans.html">http://www.dielinke-europa.eu/article/10367.lettland-sperrt-antifaschistinnen-aus-und-hofiert-waffen-ss-fans.html</a><br />
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Cornelia Kerth, Chairwoman of Federal VVN-BdA protesting outside the Latvian embassy in Berlin 15 March 2016 after she was prevented from getting on to a flight to Riga from Berlin with Baltic Air yesterday. The VVN-Bda demanded that the five fellow protesters, who had been allowed to leave the country only to be arrested on arrival at Riga airport and placed into a Latvian jail, be immediately released.<br />
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<strong>UK MP GARETH THOMAS WRITES <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Letter-to-Latvian-Amb.pdf">TO LATVIAN AMBASSADOR</a> AND TO <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Letter-to-FCO-re-Latvian-SS.pdf">BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE</a></strong></h3>
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<a href="http://www.lsm.lv/en/article/politics/government-mp-clever-jews-undermining-national-security.a173119/">MEANWHILE, RULING PARTY LATVIAN MP TELLS MEDIA THAT “CLEVER JEWS” ARE “UNDERMINING HIS NATION’S SECURITY”</a></h3>
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<strong><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-latvian-mp-smart-jews-working-to-undermine-country/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-latvian-mp-smart-jews-working-to-undermine-country/</a></strong></h3>
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<a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/baltic_news/?doc=16204">PARLIAMENTARIANS AND OTHER ELITES SLATED PARTICIPATE IN THIS YEAR’S WAFFEN SS FEST ON MARCH 16TH IN THE LATVIAN CAPITAL</a>; <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/latvia___s_national_alliance_ministers_not_to_participate_in_march_16_events_in_riga/">BUT LAST MINUTE CLIMBDOWN BY NATIONAL ALLIANCE REVERSES DECISION</a> </h3>
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A Chronology of Latvia’s Pantomime of March 16th Horror: 2012—2016</h2>
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First published <span class="entry-date">2 March 2016</span> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" title="View all posts by Defending History">Defending History</a></span> </h2>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia">LATVIA</a> | <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/neo-nazi-and-pro-fascist-marches">NEO-NAZI MARCHES</a> | <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/riga-waffen-ss-marches">RIGA WAFFEN SS MARCHES</a> | <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/collaborators-glorified">COLLABORATORS GLORIFIED</a></h4>
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by <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica">Monica Lowenberg</a></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><span class="dropcap">O</span></strong>n 16 March 2012, Dr. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">during his visit to Riga to protest against the Waffen SS legionnaires march, stated in an interview to Latvian State television LTV1 that the “Latvian SS Legion was not involved in the crimes of the Holocaust” but also stated, as he has done each and every year since 1999, “although these units were not involved in crimes against humanity, many of their soldiers had previously served in the Latvian security police and had actively participated in the mass murder of civilians, primarily Jews.” </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_day_of_the_Latvian_legionnaires#cite_note-16"><span style="font-weight: 400;">[16]</span></a></div>
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NEW SECTION:</h5>
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<strong><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/riga-waffen-ss-marches">ANNUAL WAFFEN SS MARCHES IN CENTRAL RIGA</a></strong></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MySjaQFO8Q0">You Tube clip with Dr Efraim Zuroff</a> of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel, with a p</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">hoto </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches in 2014. The reportage is accompanied by an interview with Dr. Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014 and MEP Richard Howitt’s speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City radio station,17 March 2014. </span></div>
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<strong style="font-size: 10pt;">“The slaughter in the East began from the first day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Helped by Lithuanians, Latvian and Ukrainian policemen and auxiliaries, the Einsatzgruppen moved rapidly forward behind the advancing German forces. An eye-witness later recalled how, at the frontier village of Virbalia, Jews ‘were placed alive in anti-tank trenches about two kilometers long and killed by machine guns. Lime was thereupon sprayed upon them and a second row of Jews were made to lie down. They were similarly shot. ‘Six more times, a new line of Jews were driven into the trench. ‘Only the children were not shot. They were caught by the legs, their heads hit against stones and they were thereupon buried alive.”</strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>(f</em><em>rom The Holocaust. The Jewish Tragedy</em> by Sir Martin Gilbert published by Collins, London, 1986, p. 155)</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“In the Baltic States and Ukraine, Himmler used his ‘Eastern Legions’ as vanguard troops in the German ‘war on bandits’, as well as fighting against the advancing Soviet armies.’ This means that a number of these men fought both as agents of genocide and as ‘freedom fighters’. ‘The debate provoked by the rash of Baltic memorials is a false one. The ‘freedom fighter’ and the killer of civilians may be one and the same.’ ‘Since the recruitment of Schuma battalions and foreign Waffen SS legions or divisions formed part of the same evolving genocidal strategy, it is quite wrong to argue, as Ezergailis and others have, that the combat divisions have no connection with the Holocaust.”</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(from <em>Hitler’s Foreign Executioners. Europe’s Dirty Secret</em> by Christopher Hale published by The History Press, Stroud Gloucestershire, 2011, p. 244-245)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">See </span><a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Report on Latvia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the ECRI calling a halt to all forms of Nazi glorification February 21, 2012, p27, Point 87:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>“ECRI recommends that the Latvian authorities condemn all attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborated with the Nazis. ECRI further recommends that the authorities ban any gathering or march legitimizing in any way Nazism.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Early Day Motions in the British Parliament: </span><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2750"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2750</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866">2866</a>:</span></div>
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<a href="http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/093/1709384.pdf">Report by Dr Gregor Gysi in the Bundestag 24.04.2012</a>.</div>
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P<a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch">CAA foundation” (UK) calls to ban the Baltic’s neo-Nazi marches</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#more-32025">Monica Lowenberg in dialogue with Latvia’s ambassador in London, March 2012</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-ambassador-to-the-uk-comments-on-march-16th-waffen-ss-march-in-riga/50988">David Amess Conservative MP in dialogue with Latvian Ambassador Stiprais in London</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>“When survivors of Nazi concentration camps in 1945 stood holding signs saying “never again,” they could not have foreseen what is happening today in Riga. These are the people we should be commemorating and this is the message we should remember.” </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>(Richard Howitt, British Labour Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson for the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/british-mep-richard-howitt-spokesperson-human-rights-issues-statement-riga-waffen-ss-march/64673"> on 13 March 2014</a>)</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Board of Deputies of British Jews, <a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/live/click.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bod.org.uk%2Fcontent%2FEUManifesto.pdf&o=&v=f906c6">Jewish Manifesto for the 2014 European Elections</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">See <a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EUManifesto.pdf">in particular section 3, and Post-Holocaust Issues section 3.3 on Holocaust revisionism.</a></span></div>
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In Europe, the 2008 Prague Declaration caused alarm among many Jewish communities by conflating crimes under Soviet Communism with Nazi crimes. The concern here is that some countries have attempted to deflect attention from the complicity of their wartime governments in the Holocaust, using this as a cynical attempt to avoid liability for compensation to Jewish victims. The crimes that Communist governments committed against their people should be explored and the perpetrators prosecuted, but it is important that countries acknowledge their role in the Holocaust and do not attempt to dismiss a very troubled period in their history by reference to what happened under Communism.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">At times, a related trope is that many leading Communists were Jews and so the Jews as a whole are complicit in the crimes of Communism. The rationale continues that, as such, Jews in general do not deserve sympathy or compensation for what they suffered during the Holocaust. But the fact that some Jews were leading Communists did not leave Jews – as a corporate entity – with the wealth of the subjugated people in the same way that Nazi expropriation of Jewish property remains in the hands of some states.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commitment: MEPs should challenge their European colleagues on these narratives that seek to minimize or downplay the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">2</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">014 and 2015 <strong>it was illegal</strong> for any Latvian member of parliament to attend the Legionnaires march and one minister was fired for attending in 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">“At the end of November 2015, the new president of Latvia, Raimonds Vējonis, participated in a solemn meeting at Rumbula where he, unlike his predecessors, publicly admitted that the terrible actions during the Nazi occupation of Latvia were aided, in part, by the participation of Latvian collaborators.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">See on this <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/why-do-i-find-the-so-called-heroes-from-the-latvian-waffen-ss-so-despicable/79414">Roland Binet </a>and a relevant <a href="http://www.lsm.lv/en/article/societ/society/officials-mark-rumbula-massacre.a157247/">Lsm.lv article</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As in 2014 the VVN /anti fascists from Berlin will be protesting at the 2016 march and protesting outside the Latvian embassy in Berlin 15 March 2016.</span><br />
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Eight days after announcing that ministers from the National Alliance planned in attending the SS Fest in force on the 16 March 2016, on 10 March 2016 the National Alliance, interestingly, decided to revoke their decision <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/latvia___s_national_alliance_ministers_not_to_participate_in_march_16_events_in_riga/">http://www.baltictimes.com/latvia___s_national_alliance_ministers_not_to_participate_in_march_16_events_in_riga/</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Bauska: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since 2012, in the Latvian town of Bauska, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/summary-coverage-on-monument-in-bauska-to-honor-waffen-ss-updated-to-12-oct-2012/43951">proudly stands the first memorial to the SS in a European, NATO, OSCE country.</a> It has as yet not been officially removed.</span><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/uk-foreign-ministers-refusal-to-criticize-baltic-policies-promoting-glorification-of-nazism/52535">The British Foreign Office repeatedly fails to criticize</a> Baltic state policies and practicies promoting glorification of Nazism. The theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial day was 'Don't Stand By' <a href="http://hmd.org.uk/resources/theme-papers/hmd-2016-dont-stand" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://hmd.org.uk/resources/<wbr></wbr></span>theme-papers/hmd-2016-dont-<wbr></wbr>stand</a><span style="color: #555555;"> . Surely the heirs of Churchill wish to now take these words to heart? </span><br />
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On the 2 March 2016, and for the first time in two years, Latvian members of parliament stated they would resume attending the SS march this year and according to this article <a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/baltic_news/?doc=16204" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.baltic-<wbr></wbr>course.com/</span><span style="color: #cc6611;">eng/baltic_news/?<wbr></wbr>doc=16204</span></a><span style="color: #555555;"> far more than in the past. See also: </span><a href="http://www.latviannewsservice.lv/en/topic/1905/news/50872469/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.latviannewsservice.<wbr></wbr></span>lv/en/topic/1905/news/<wbr></wbr>50872469/</a><br />
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On March 16, 2016 The society for the Support of National Soldiers is planning an event by the Freedom Monument from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. to explain to passersby the Latvian SS Legion’s history and the battles that were fought on March 16, 1944. That event is expected to draw 30 participants. YET The Anti-Nazi Committee of Latvia who would also like to educate passers by regarding what the Latvian SS Legion did and were involved in will be relegated to a park AWAY from the main proceedings.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/legislation/?doc=91593">Latvian Parliament in 2014 passed a free-speech destroying law threatening up to five years imprisonment</a> for those who might deign to disagree with the state’s interpretation of World War II and the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The same year, the Latvian government abused its EU status to <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wiesenthal-center-slams-latvian-veto-of-holocaust-exhibition-at-unesco/70866">veto a perfectly legitimate Holocaust exhibit at UNESCO in Paris</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">JERUSALEM—The Simon Wiesenthal Center today harshly criticized steps taken by the Latvian delegation to UNESCO which effectively cancelled an exhibition about the Holocaust in Latvia scheduled to open this coming Sunday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The sad acquiescence to a far-right veto was rapidly critiqued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center Center’s Israel office director, Dr. Efraim Zuroff who issued this statement:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>“This step by the Latvians is part of a systematic effort by the Baltic countries to hide the truth about the extensive collaboration with the Nazis of Balts in the implementation of the Final Solution in their native countries, as well as in Poland and Belarus. Instead of complaining that the exhibition risked damaging her country’s reputation, Latvia’s chief delegate to UNESCO should have welcomed an effort to expose the wartime collaboration of so many Latvians as part of an honest confrontation with her country’s bloody Holocaust past.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It seems certain, sadly, that the glorification march of the SS will be going ahead on 16 March 2016 in the very heart of Riga. <a href="https://en.eadaily.com/news/2016/02/18/human-rights-defender-latvian-authorities-have-resumed-persecutions-of-antifascists">Potential protesters have recently been harassed by Latvian authorities</a>.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“The openly racist and anti-democratic character of the new government also finds expression in a proposed ban on burkas. Minister of Justice Dzintars Rasnacs from the National Alliance discussed the plans on LNT, a Latvian television channel: “Such a ban will be introduced. The respective draft decision has been already worked out.” He included in this a ban on traditional Islamic dress in all public places. According to Rasnacs, the ban would protect ‘Latvian culture’.” </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(<a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/28/lett-j28.html">Wsws.org</a>)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Alliance consists of such member politicians such as Raivis Dzintars. Raivis Dzintars seen in <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949#more-51949">this photo reportage</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">is co-chair of the Latvian far right party which entered the ruling coalition in 2011. In the reportage above one can see Raivis Dzintars smirking as a friend gives a Nazi salute. Dzintars is also a member of the National Association “All For Latvia!” — “For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Amongst his various parliamentary duties he is, disturbingly, since November 2011, chairman of the civic education subcommittee of the Education, Culture and Science Committee of his nation’s parliament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2013 Raivis Dzintars and Janis Dombrava of National Association “All For Latvia!”— “For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK” aggressively approached protesters and tried to tear down photographs of atrocities committed by Latvian collaborators in 1941, men who later joined the Latvian Legion in 1943, this too can be seen in the above photo reportage. And yet disturbingly, Janis Dombrava was recently described <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/world/europe/latvia-has-a-new-leader-as-fears-of-russia-and-migration-rise.html?emc=edit_tnt_20160212&nlid=67127061&tntemail0=y&_r=0">by the <em>New York Times</em> as being a “lawmaker.</a>“</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Add Your Voice to the Petition Against the SS Glorification March in Riga, Latvia:</strong></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr>stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr>latvians_revising_history</a></span></h3>
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Disturbing news, after two years of not being allowed to attend the SS march on 16 March in Riga, many politicians under the new regime plan in attending this year</div>
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<a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/baltic_news/?doc=16204" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.baltic-course.com/<wbr></wbr></span>eng/baltic_news/?doc=16204</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.latviannewsservice.lv/en/topic/1905/news/50872469/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.latviannewsservice.<wbr></wbr></span>lv/en/topic/1905/news/<wbr></wbr>50872469/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.leta.lv/eng/home/important/EF6145E5-CE2E-4A7E-A79C-6816346BD679/">http://www.leta.lv/eng/home/important/EF6145E5-CE2E-4A7E-A79C-6816346BD679/</a></div>
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<a href="http://tass.ru/en/world/860775">http://tass.ru/en/world/860775</a><br />
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<a href="http://rushincrash.com/ussr/the-authorities-of-riga-have-allowed-the-procession-ss-legionnaires-in-the-centre-of-the-city/">http://rushincrash.com/ussr/the-authorities-of-riga-have-allowed-the-procession-ss-legionnaires-in-the-centre-of-the-city/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Latvian-lawmakers-to-participate-in-annual-SS-march-through-capital-447524">http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Latvian-lawmakers-to-participate-in-annual-SS-march-through-capital-447524</a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">A FEW REMINDERS RE MARCH 16 IN RIGA, LATVIA</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each year since 1998, former Latvian SS veterans have, on the 16th March, been marching in the centre of the capital city of Riga, accompanied by supporters of all generations, to commemorate and herald their fallen colleagues as war ‘heroes’. The marches have over the years increased in alarming numbers and have frequently been, and continue to be supported by Latvian officials. <br /><br /> On March 16th, 2011 in the heart of NATO, in an EU country, in Riga, more than 2,500 people, (75% of them under the age of 30), gathered to pay tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. Amongst them a large number of neo-Nazi activists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Norway and Denmark and Latvian officials and MEP members. Over the years the marches have been attended by the Latvian Chief-of-Staff, Secretary of Defense, members of the Seim and current and former ministers and officials. They herald the Latvian SS veterans as war heroes and freedom fighters as they claim they fought in German ranks to hold back a greater evil, the Soviet Union. Many Latvians believe that the Latvian Waffen SS legion could not have played a role in the Holocaust as it was not officially formed until 1943 when nearly all of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered. However, a substantial amount of evidence including a series of personal accounts and confirmation received from the trial of German Nazi Adolph Eichmann, supports that unknown numbers of Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had indeed been previously involved in the murder of Jews as auxiliary police between 1941 and 1942. 90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, only one in ten survived. Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least half of them were murdered by mid-1942. <br /><br /> Shamefully forgotten is the fact that not one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence. Killers who prior to joining the legion in 1943 had been part of 16 auxiliary police (SD) battalions that had previously taken an active part in the liquidating of ghettos in Latvia, Belarus and Poland, as well as in the destruction of civilian villages in Belarus and Russia’s Pskov region. Killers who before joining the legion had been in the ‘Arajs Team’ led by Viktor Arajs, comprising of up to 1,500 Latvian men, known worldwide as the active performers of the Holocaust in Europe, executioners of Latvian, Vilna, Warsaw and many Byelorussian ghettos. <br /><br /> During World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered «Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which became the most decorated non-German Waffen SS unit. It was the 15th infantry division who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the Third Reich. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Latvian legion formed in the winter of 1943 was , under Hitler’s orders , formally established on March 16th 1944.There is consensus amongst all Latvian historians that the day marks the only time, the two Divisions of the Legion (15th and 19th) fought together against the Red Army. Therefore, by making the 16th March a day to remember war dead, Latvians, (despite Latvian official protestations to the contrary), are making the day when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15th and 19th divisions of the SS an act of commemoration. As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to commemorate the Legion is far from being a positive act and a far cry from a policy to GLORIFY them. Glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite condemnation from the international community and reports from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance that in 2008 explicitly stated, ‘All attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimising in any way Nazism should be banned’, in January this year, many Latvian policymakers expressed their respect and admiration of former SS veterans. Political party "Visu Latviyyay!" announced that it is preparing a bill declaring the veterans of the SS Legion as national liberation movement fighters. Under the bill, former SS soldiers in Latvia will enjoy many benefits and advantages, in contrast to the veterans of the Allied forces who fought against Nazism.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Monica Lowenberg is the creator of the<a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"> international petition against this year’s Waffen SS march</a> scheduled for 16 March 2012 in the heart of Riga, Latvia’s capital city. The petition has to date attracted some six thousand signatures from every part of the planet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Thank you for your letter of 1 March 2012 explaining why you cannot support the petition, ‘Stop the 16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> March marches in Latvia and Latvians revising history’. I appreciate the time you have taken out of your busy schedule to explain your arguments to me. In the same spirit, I feel it is important to respectfully point out that <em>glorifying any pro-Nazi forces in today’s European Union and NATO alliances is unacceptable, </em>whether the men now being honoured as ‘heroes’ and <a href="http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=147992">‘bowed’ down to by your prime minister</a>, were murderers, criminals, or simply just pro-Nazis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Latvia needs to be glorifying its <em>real</em> heroes who saved Jews and other civilian victims <em>from</em> the Nazis and their local allies, not a group of men, who amongst them were former Arajs commandos and auxiliary police who played an active role in the mass murders of 90% of Latvia’s prewar Jewish population in 1941-1942, murdering close to 70,000 Jews. Among the murderers were not a few men who later joined the 15th and 19th divisions of the Latvian SS in 1943, the 15<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> division being the most decorated of all SS divisions. This is frankly not one of the high points in Latvia’s long and proud history.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As mentioned in my last email to you of the 16 February 2012, it was as a direct consequence of my first visit to Riga last October that I started the petition ‘Stop the 16 March marches in Riga and Latvians revising history!’ as I sincerely believe glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The petition, launched 20 January 2012, ninety years to the day from the date of birth of my uncle, Paul Theodor Loewenberg, a native of Halle an der Saale, who at age 19 was sent to the Riga Ghetto on the 4 October 1941, is as much an act of commemoration of the victims of Nazism as it is a tribute to the European parliamentarians, including a number from Latvia, who wisely and courageously signed on the 20 January this year 2012, the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230">Seventy Years Declaration</a>, commemorating Wannsee, a declaration <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230#notoglorification">which specifically rejects glorification of Latvia’s Waffen SS</a>, along with Estonia’s Waffen SS and the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) in Lithuania.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As these ‘heroes’ march on the 16 March with Latvian politicians and are given a sermon in church and flowers, when officials and the prime minister argue that these men are not criminals as the SS Latvian legion that these men, killers among them, joined in 1943 (after they and/or colleagues had murdered 80,000 Jews in 1941-1942 on Latvian soil in their capacity as Arajs commandos and auxiliary police), was acquitted of crimes against humanity in the 1950’s by US courts, I ask them and you to consider the following:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As these men march from the main Latvian Lutheran Church towards the symbol of Latvian independence — the Freedom Monument in Riga’s central square on 16 March 2012 this year, will any of these men and politicians shed a thought for their Latvian murdered compatriots who happened to be Jewish? Will they remember how 25,000 of them were in the fall of 1941, over two weekends, marched down Riga’s streets from the ghetto to Rumbula, shot and thrown in to pits using the ‘sardine method’? Will they say a prayer for them as part of these proceedings?</span></span><br />
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Since 1998, former Latvian SS have every year, on the 16th March, been marching in the capital city of Riga to commemorate and herald their fallen colleagues as war heroes. The marches have over the years increased in alarming numbers and are now even condoned by Latvian officials. On March 16th, 2011 in the heart of NATO, in Riga, more than 2,500 people, amongst them Latvian politicians, paid tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. The Latvian Prime Minister told local media he did not think March 16th had ,“a special significance.” Legionnaires’ Day is used by radicals on both sides, “to confront each other”. However, this petition believes Latvia, the international community, the UK government, the European Union and Nato should condemn the Nazi event in clearer terms, as Waffen SS veterans are not seen as legitimate “heroes” in any EU member state which Latvia has been granted status since 2004.</div>
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•According to 2010 official statistics The Republic of Latvia, with a population of approximately 2.2 million, is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority is vested in the unicameral Saeima (parliament)</div>
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•According to government statistics for the year 2010, Russians comprised 28 percent of the population, Belarusians 4 percent, Ukrainians 3 percent, Poles 2 percent, Lithuanians 1 percent, Jews 0.4 percent, and Roma 0.4 percent.</div>
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•Already in a press release 16.03.1999 the Simon Wiesenthal centre in Jerusalem condemned the march of the legionaries and stated, ‘although these units were not involved in crimes against humanity, many of their soldiers had previously served in the Latvian security police and had actively participated in the mass murder of civilians, primarily Jews...The stubborn insistence of Latvia’s SS Legion veterans to conduct a public march to glorify their role as combatants on behalf of the Third Reich is a clear indication that many Latvians have still not internalised the lessons of WWII... not one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence, far too many Latvians feel free to identify with those who fought alongside the perpetrators of the Holocaust rather than with its victims’.</div>
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•The Latvian legion consists of veterans of the Latvian SS Volunteer legion they claim they fought in German ranks to hold back a greater evil, the Soviet Union. They consider themselves as freedom fighters. Russian, Jewish organisations and even some Latvians believe that the veteran link with the Nazi SS-organisation is a national disgrace. They consider the veterans as Nazi sympathisers.</div>
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•During World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered «Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which was the most decorated non-German Waffen SS unit. It was the 15th infantry division who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the Third Reich. </div>
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•The Latvian legion was formed in the winter of 1943 however; March 16th 1944 is the day the Legion was founded when Hitler ordered it be established. All Latvian writers agree that the day marks the only time, the two Divisions of the Legion (15th and 19th) were fighting together against the Red Army. Therefore, by making the 16th March a day to remember war dead, Latvians, (despite Latvian official protestations to the contrary), are making the day when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15th and 19th divisions of the SS an act of commemoration. As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to commemorate the Legion is far from being a positive act.</div>
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•It should be noted that nearly 130,000 other Latvians - enlisted to fight against the Axis (Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Japan). Most of them fought in the Red Army that liberated their country from Nazism. After the negotiations among the Allies, Latvia, like other Baltic states, was absorbed by the Soviet Union. Professor Vaira Vike-Freiberga sixth president of Latvia from 8 July 1999 – 8 July 2007 has described the men who joined the Red Army as traitors.</div>
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•Approximately 62,000 Jews, or 90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, two years before the formation of the Latvian Waffen SS unit — which some Latvians claim shows the unit could not have played a role in the Holocaust.</div>
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Attorney General: I shall come to the German initiative right away. At the end of the paragraph Stahlecker says that, after the partisans had to be disarmed, the internal purging operations ceased in any case. It was much more difficult, he says, to organize purging operations and pogroms in Latvia. It is true that synagogues were burned, and that about 400 Jews were killed, but since the population was soon quietened down, further pogroms could not be organized. "As far as possible, it was documented, both in Kovno and in Riga, by means of films and photographs that the first spontaneous executions of Jews and communists were carried out by Lithuanians and Latvians." </div>
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After being marched to Rumbula, the killings began. The Jews were forced into a gauntlet formed by a mixture of Germans and Latvians, who included members of the Arājs Commando. As the Jews progressed down the gauntlet, they were forced to surrender their valuables and remove their clothes and shoes. The final stage of the Jews’ journey was to lie down in one of three large pits, clutching their children and loved ones, and to receive a bullet in the back of the head. Subsequent victims were made to sprawl on top of the dead and those who were still struggling in their death throes; the pit reeked of excrement and brains. With the SS men fuelled by alcohol and hampered by the approaching darkness, their accuracy deteriorated, and many of the Jews died by being suffocated by the corpses that fell on top of them.'</div>
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Some Statistics regarding how many Jews were murdered in Latvia 1941-1942<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, only one in ten survived. Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least half of them were murdered by mid-1942</span> </h3>
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Cukurs replied by killing the woman with a single shot fired with his big revolver. A few minutes later he shot and killed a small child, just because he annoyed him standing the street and crying for his mother."<br />
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Cukurs was assassinated in Montevideo in February 1965 by a group of Jews, who were led by Anton Kunzle, and one of the Jews who called himself Oswald Taussig, who like Cukurs came from Riga.</div>
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Professor Vaira Vike-Freiberga sixth president of Latvia from 8 July 1999 – 8 July 2007 has stated that Latvia was successively occupied by the Soviets, the Germans and again by the Soviets. The Latvians who joined the SS did it only to find an ally to liberate their country. In short, their crimes were comparable. For that, she has based her reasoning on an interpretation of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact being the result of the totalitarian nature of the Nazi and Communist regimes. Therefore, today's Germany could not be held responsible for the Nazi crimes but today's Russia would always be responsible for crimes of Stalinism. However, this interpretation does not reflect reality: the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact is, above all, an extension of the Munich Accords (Germany, France, Italy, and United Kingdom) to determine the areas of influence in the East after the distribution of Czechoslovakia among Germany, Poland and Hungary. In addition, it is necessary to integrate the role of Latvia itself during that period. She has ignored the role of the Red Army in the liberation of Europe from the dun plague (the Fascists wore dun and black shirts), and described as traitors those Latvians who joined the Red Army.</div>
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•In January 2005, the Latvian government published a work entitled History of Latvia: 20th Century; the book openly says that it was printed with the financial assistance of the US Embassy and its launching took place during a press conference of the president of the Republic. The book states that the camp of Salaspils, where the Nazis carried out medical experiments with children and 90,000 people were killed, was simply a «corrective working camp» and that the Waffen SS were heroes of the struggle against the Soviet occupying forces. </div>
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•On 23 December 2011, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs met with the Chairman of Latvian Council of Jewish Communities Arkady Suharenko. </div>
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'The year 2011 is significant in the history of Latvia’s Jewish community: it marks 450 years of the Jewish community in Latvia and commemorates the beginning of the tragic Holocaust events 70 years ago. In this context, a number of notable events have taken place in Latvia in 2011, including the Fifth World Reunion of Latvian Jewry and the Eighth International Conference Jews in a Changing World. The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and Jews in Latvia Museum with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have carried out a joint project, titled 'The Tragedy of Latvia. 1941'.</div>
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•It should be noted that the exhibition in the Museum of Occupation 'The Tragedy of Latvia', devoted in October 2011 only a couple of stands to the Holocaust, the lack there of suggesting that the Holocaust was not the greatest atrocity that occurred in Latvia. As Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former Latvian president has stated, many Latvians suffered and died in Soviet gulags and their deaths should not be forgotten but the greatest number of killings in Latvian history actually took place during the Nazi regime, circa 25,000 Jews were killed alone over two weekends in Rumbula , by the middle of 1941 the Nazis had killed approximately 10,000 Latvians supposed communist sympathisers and by 1942 nearly 80,000 Jews had been brutally murdered in Latvia. </div>
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•In the same museum under a portrait of Gustavs Celmins the museum has named Celmins as the leader of ‘ The National Patriotic Organisation’. However, the reality is that he was the leader of the ‘Perkonkrusts’ an ultra nationalistic anti-Semitic organisation that in 1941 had many members actively kill Jews. Celmins died in 1967 in the USA, he had been professor of Russian at San Antonio Catholic University. In 1944 the Nazis had put him into a concentration camp for being a Latvian nationalist but this does not diminish the role members of his organisation played in the killing of Jews, a fact the Museum of Occupation has omitted.</div>
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•Latvia gained independence from Soviet rule on August 21, 1991</div>
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•The first march of the Latvian SS Volunteer Legion took place on March 16 1998 on the initiative of the Nazi association Club 415. ‘Approximately 500 demonstrators , of this the majority war veterans dressed in uniforms from the Latvian legion, participated in a commemoration in the Cathedral of Riga and afterwards marched to the Monument of Freedom, where flowers were laid’. From Baltic Defence review no.3, vol.2000. The debate on the Latvian SS Volunteer legion by Bjarke W.Botcher , post graduate student of east European Studies at the University of Copenhagen</div>
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•In 2004 and for the first time in the heart of NATO and the European Union, several hundreds of Waffen SS marched in the centre of the capital Riga. The demonstration, which was authorised by the municipal council of Riga, was protected by security forces, while people who were peacefully protesting against it were brutally repressed and some of them submitted to interrogation.</div>
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•March 2010 whilst in Riga, Dr Efraim Zuroff Israel director of the Wiesenthal Centre begged the Latvian authorities to stop the marches and in an article in 2011 pointed out that 600 Latvian intellectuals had signed a petition asking that the government halt the marches, they were not stopped and instead almost condoned. See</div>
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<a href="http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/47023/where-hitlers-thugs-are-treated-heroes?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-features/47023/where-hitlers-thugs-are-treated-heroes?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a> Jewish Chronicle John Nathan 24.03.2011</div>
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<a href="http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/riga-viktor-arajs-march-16-the-latvian-legion-and-the-holocaust/">http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/riga-viktor-arajs-march-16-the-latvian-legion-and-the-holocaust/</a> Dr Clemens Heni 22.03.2010</div>
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<a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.operationlastchance.org</a> Operation: Last Chance” is a joint project of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Targum Shlishi Foundation of Miami, Florida designed to assist governments in bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.</div>
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<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/latvia-torn-as-ss-veterans-march-to-remember-comrades-20100317-qfkc.html#ixzz1jATEKZ8e" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>world/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>latvia-torn-as-ss-veterans-marc<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>h-to-remember-comrades-2010031<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>7-qfkc.html#ixzz1jATEKZ8e</a> 18.03.2010</div>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2010/mar/18/latvia-waffen-ss-protest" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>global/2010/mar/18/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>latvia-waffen-ss-protest</a> 18.03.2010 Dr Efraim Zuroff Guardian</div>
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•On 10 November 2010 Roland Binet wrote an open letter to the president of the European commission Mr Jose Manuel Barroso regarding the Museum of Occupation in Riga, Latvia and the 16 March marches asking the European commission to intervene. See <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/museum-of-the-occupation-riga" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>museum-of-the-occupation-riga</a>. Full letter pasted at end of this article</div>
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•In 2010 the papers reported an increase in anti-Semitism in Latvia and the Chairman of the Latvian Council of Jewish Communities Arkady Suharenko stated on 14.12.2010 The Latvian Jewish Community is shocked and dismayed at the desecration of the Riga Jewish cemetery on December 8, and the desecration of the monument to Janis Lipke and other saviours on December 13. These aggressive manifestations of anti-Semitism seem to indicate that this is not an isolated action by some miscreants but rather a system, a pattern that is of concern to us. </div>
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•March 16, 2011 Riga, Latvia - More than 2,500 people paid tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. <br />
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It was stated that 2011 would be the year that Latvia would commemorate 450 years of Jewish life in Latvia and 70 years since the Riga ghetto yet the Museum of Occupation in Riga only devoted a couple of stands to the Holocaust.</div>
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•In response to the marches The Latvian Prime Minister told local media he did not think March 16 had, “a special significance.” Legionnaires’ Day is used by radicals on both sides, “to confront each other,” he noted.</div>
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•January 2012 on the radio in Latvia three organisations have already declared their wish to have marches take place on March 16 2012:</div>
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3. Igor Shishkin organisation ‘Club of Gustavs Celmins’ (Gustavs Celmins leader of the ‘Perkonkrusts’ an ultra nationalistic anti-Semitic organisation that in 1941 had many members actively kill Jews.) </div>
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The fact that Latvian politicians and historians have still not considered in more depth the dreadful fate of their Jewish compatriots suggests that Latvians have still not come to terms with their past . They have failed to acknowledge the active involvement of over 1,000 Arajs commandos in the guarding, robbing and brutal mass murder of 13,000 Jews in the summer and fall of 1941 alone. And lest we forget the murder of <span style="font-family: "calibri";">90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, killed in 1941-42. Only one in ten survived. Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least half of them were murdered by mid-1942 </span> When Latvian politicians and historians in an EU country and in the heart of NATO defend in 2012 the 16th March marches, when they herald Latvian SS men as freedom fighters and heroes, they fail to recognise that some of these ‘heroes’ were actually Arajs commandos and mass murderers who in 1943 joined 15th and 19th SS detachments . When Latvian politicians and historians state that they did not war against the democratic allies Britain and USA but only against the Soviet occupants they forget one unforgettable and important fact- the western allies fought with the USSR against the Nazis. Therefore, when Latvian SS killed Soviet soldiers they in turn allowed Nazis on the western front to kill British and American soldiers and in turn allowed Auschwitz and other concentration camps to continue their heinous crimes against humanity. </div>
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Other Points For Latvian Apologists to Consider:</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";">As much as it is necessary for those who feel they have suffered under various occupations to be heard, it is historically false and morally reprehensible at best to:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong> When the 15th and 19th divisions of the Waffen SS fought against the Red Army, not so far away from Leningrad, around 1,5000,000 innocent men, women and children died of hunger due to a Nazi blockade. </strong></span><br />
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<strong>Monica Lowenberg MA, BA Hons 20.01.2012</strong></div>
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(In the course of her DPhil studies at Sussex University and academic work at the Wiener Library, London, UK Monica has been published in the UK and Germany in Exile Studies. Publications have included Die Kindertransporte 1938/1939 Fischer Taschenbuch <span dir="ltr">Verlag</span> and The Education of the Cologne Jawne Gymnasium Children and the Berlin ORT School Boys in Germany and England Between 1933 and 1939 Rodopi)</div>
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My thanks to Dr Aleksandrs Feigmanis Historian in Riga, Latvia for devoting many hours informing myself of what is currently taking place in Latvia today and for proof reading this document, without him this document and petition would never have come about. I am also indebted to Dorothee Lottmann Kaeseler of the Aktives Museum in Wiesbaden, Germany and Dr Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Israel Office for the invaluable information they have given me. Dr Barry Gardiner MP for Brent North for supporting the petition, ‘Stop the 16th March marches in Riga and Latvians Revising History!’ and for being prepared to submit an Early day Motion to the House of Commons to coincide with the date of 16 March to draw attention to the issue.</div>
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In remembrance of the innocent voices who were brutally silenced and my uncle Paul Lowenberg 20.01.1922 who at the age of 19 was sent to the Riga ghetto on the 4 October 1941.</div>
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PROTEST BY THE VVN BERLIN</h2>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA) e.V.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Bundesvereinigung</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Presseerklärung vom 8. März 2016</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Am 16. März wird es in der lettischen Hauptstadt Riga - wie jedes Jahr seit 1991 - wiederum zu einem Gottesdienst, einem Umzug und einer fahnengesäumten Kundgebung am Freiheitsdenkmal zu Ehren der lettischen Einheiten der Waffen-SS kommen. <u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diese Veranstaltung ist der unrühmliche Höhepunkt verschiedener Kundgebungen, mit denen in den baltischen Republiken nationalistischer, antisemitischer und antikommunistischer Kollaborateure der deutschen Besatzungsmacht gedacht wird und die zur nationalen Legitimation herangezogen werden. Es wird im Zuge dessen weitgehend ignoriert, verdrängt oder geleugnet, dass es sich im Kern um Todesschwadronen handelte, die im Verbund mit den Deutschen Massenmorde durchführten, denen zehntausende Menschen zum Opfer fielen. <u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Internationaler Druck hat immerhin erreicht, dass der „Tag der Legionäre“ seit 1998 nicht mehr nationaler Feiertag ist und dass die Regierung ihre Mitglieder verpflichtet hat, nicht mehr an ihm teil zu nehmen. Die auch an der aktuellen Regierung beteiligte Partei „Nationale Allianz“ war allerdings 2014 sogar bereit einen Minister zu verlieren, der trotz des Regierungsbeschlusses teilgenommen hatte.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dessen ungeachtet erfreut sich die beklemmende Veranstaltung nach wie vor breiter gesellschaftlicher und de facto staatlicher Unterstützung. Man rechnet mit mehreren tausend Teilnehmenden, die sich nicht auf einen harten neonazistischen Kern beschränkt.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Erheblicher Repression sehen sich die wenigen Letten ausgesetzt, die diesem Spektakel etwas entgegensetzen wollen. Telefonüberwachung, Reisebeschränkungen, Behördenschikanen, Polizeiwillkür, staatliche Einflussnahme auf Hotels und Veranstaltungsunternehmen werden jedes Jahr insbesondere gegen „Lettland ohne Nazismus“ angewendet und sollen sie zur Aufgabe zwingen. In diesem Jahr war es den Antifaschisten gelungen, den Veranstaltungsort vor der Gegenseite zu beantragen. Daraufhin wurden sie von der Polizei vorgeladen, weil sie angeblich ihre eigene Unterschrift gefälscht hätten!<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Der „Ehrenmarsch“ ist eine unerhörte Provokation für die Angehörigen der Opfer der lettischen Polizei und SS-Verbände und für die jüdische, russischsprachige und andere Minderheiten im Land. Er steht nicht nur im Gegensatz zu den Grundwerten der Europäischen Union, deren Vorzüge der lettische Staat andererseits gerne entgegennimmt, sondern ist auch eine Provokation gegenüber der Russischen Föderation und damit eine Gefahr für den Frieden in Europa.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Auf Einladung der Initiative „Lettland ohne Nazismus“ nehmen am 16. März in Riga internationale Politiker, Wissenschaftlicher, Journalisten, Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten an Aktivitäten gegen den Ehrenmarsch teil. Auch eine Delegation der VVN-BdA wird sich erneut wieder an einer Gegenkundgebung beteiligen.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bereits am 15. März wird es in Berlin um 18 Uhr vor der Botschaft Lettlands in der Reinerzstr. 40/41 eine Protestkundgebung „Auch in Lettland: Gegen das SS-Gedenken – Kampf den historischen Kontinuitäten“ der „Antifaschistischen Koordination Westberlin“ geben.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<strong>Protest outside the Latvian Embassy, Berlin, 15 March 2016</strong><br />
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About 50 people came together to protest against the commemoration march for SS-Legionnaires in Riga </div>
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One of the protesters wore signs that read: 'Male and Female bikers against Nazis, stupidity and hate! No more war! No more genocide! No! Not again! No Waffen-SS commemoration in Riga! No new Nazis! Anywhere!'</div>
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'SS is marching again in Riga. Criminals against humanity, mass murderers get out of Europe!" Sign by Kontakte-kontakty, an association that works for historical awareness surrounding German crimes in the occupied parts of the former Soviet Union. In 1998 the association created an exhibition called "Shoah in Latvia" which explored the lives of Shoah survivors in the East, a topic completely ignored by German politics until that time. For the past 25 years Kontakte-kontakty now concerns itself with the "forgotten victims of National Socialism" ie soviet prisoners of war and forced laborers who have never received compensation for their suffering nor for their work.</div>
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16. März 2016, Nr. 64</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Regierung bereitet sich auf SS-Gedenkmarsch vor – und nimmt deutsche
Antifaschisten in Abschiebehaft<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong>Further article by Frank Brendle in English here</strong><em>:</em> <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/80430-2/80430">http://defendinghistory.com/80430-2/80430</a><br />
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Widerstand: Protest gegen einen Aufzug von ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen am 16.
März 2014 in Riga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lettische Regierung legt sich mächtig ins Zeug, um die Straßen von Riga für den
am heutigen Mittwoch stattfindenden jährlichen Marsch zu Ehren der Waffen-SS
vor Protest gegen die Ewiggestrigen zu bewahren. Deutsche Antifaschisten, die
sich an einer Demonstration gegen den Aufmarsch beteiligen wollten, wurden am
gestrigen Dienstag bei der Einreise in das baltische Land festgenommen. »Die
Behörden versuchen alles, um unseren Protest zu behindern«, berichtete Joseph
Koren von der Organisation »Lettland ohne Nazismus« im Gespräch mit <i>junge
Welt</i>. Koren hatte die Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund
der Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA) eingeladen, die Proteste in Lettland zu
unterstützen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gestern früh
wurde der Bundesvorsitzenden der VVN-BdA, Cornelia Kerth, am Hamburger
Flughafen das Einsteigen in die Maschine von Air Baltic verweigert. Sie stehe
auf einer »schwarzen Liste« der lettischen Einwanderungsbehörde, wurde ihr
beschieden. Fünf Berliner Antifaschisten hatten es hingegen bis nach Riga
geschafft, wo sie bei der Einreisekontrolle festgehalten und in einen
Verhörraum gebracht wurden. Unter ihnen befinden sich neben dem
VVN-BdA-Bundesgeschäftsführer auch einfache Mitglieder des Verbandes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gaben die Behörden an, von den Antifaschisten ginge eine »Gefahr für die
öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung« aus. Dabei waren die Proteste gegen den
SS-Marsch stets friedlich gewesen. Allerdings hatten alle fünf Betroffenen
schon vor zwei Jahren an ähnlichen Demonstrationen teilgenommen. Damals waren
sie mit dem Bus angereist und an der Grenze mehrere Stunden lang aufgehalten
worden. Heute finden sich ihre Daten auf der Liste der »unerwünschten
Ausländer« wieder. »Man hat uns vor die Wahl gestellt, entweder noch heute
zurückzufliegen oder bis zur Abschiebung in ein Internierungslager für illegale
Migranten gesperrt zu werden«, berichtete einer der Teilnehmer gegenüber <i>junge
Welt</i> am Telefon. Alle fünf Internierten hätten sich entschlossen, das
Angebot der »freiwilligen« Rückreise auszuschlagen. »Dafür droht uns dann
lebenslanges Einreiseverbot nach Lettland, aber das wollen wir politisch
durchkämpfen«, hieß es. Bis <i>jW</i>-Redaktionsschluss bestand noch
Telefonkontakt zu den Betroffenen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nazimarsch findet stets am 16. März statt, am Jahrestag einer Schlacht der
lettischen Waffen-SS-Freiwilligen gegen die Rote Armee. Bis vor wenigen Jahren
liefen noch regelmäßig Minister der lettischen Regierung mit. Das wurde auf
internationalen Druck hin zwar eingestellt, einfache Abgeordnete der
nationalistischen Regierungspartei »Alles für Lettland« haben aber auch für
dieses Jahr ihre Teilnahme angekündigt. In der von Geschichtsrevisionismus und
antirussischer Propaganda geprägten lettischen Gesellschaft werden die
Faschisten weithin als vermeintliche »Freiheitskämpfer gegen den Bolschewismus«
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Presseerklärung wies die VVN-BdA darauf hin, dass die Letten, die Proteste
gegen den SS-Marsch organisieren, erheblicher Repression ausgesetzt seien. Auch
Josef Koren von »Lettland ohne Nazismus« berichtet von Überwachungen und
Schikanen durch Behörden. Deswegen setzt er auf eine Internationalisierung des
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<br /> 1. Es ist nicht zu tolerieren, dass sich die lettische Regierung über<br /> die Normen des freien<br /> Personenverkehrs innerhalb der EU glaubt hinwegsetzen zu können. Wir<br /> erwarten von den Gremien<br /> der Europäischen Union und der Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland<br /> in Lettland deutliche<br /> Protestnoten.</h4>
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<br /> 2. Es ist nicht zu tolerieren, dass die lettische Regierung offenkundig<br /> alles dafür tut, dass<br /> ehemalige SS-Verbrecher und ihre Verbände, sowie deren Sympathisanten<br /> ungehindert in Riga<br /> aufmarschieren dürfen. Wir erwarten von der Europäischen Union, dass sie<br /> die lettische Regierung<br /> deutlich an ihre Verpflichtung erinnert, keinerlei<br /> Geschichtsrevisionismus und Verherrlichung der<br /> faschistischen Verbrechen zuzulassen. Die Teilnehmenden der<br /> Internationalen Konferenz gegen<br /> Antisemitismus in Berlin müssten – wenn sie es mit ihrem Anliegen<br /> ehrlich meinen – deutliche Worte<br /> gegen das Verhalten der lettischen Regierung finden.</h4>
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<br /> 3. Es ist nicht zu tolerieren, dass die lettische Regierung einen<br /> friedlichen und demokratischen<br /> Protest, der sich in den gesetzlichen Rahmen der lettischen Verordnungen<br /> bewegt, durch solche<br /> Maßnahmen unterdrückt und – durch die Inhaftierung der Teilnehmenden –<br />sogar kriminalisiert. Wir<br /> erwarten vom deutschen Außenministerium, dass sie unverzüglich Kontakt<br /> zur lettischen Regierung<br /> aufnimmt und die Freilassung der Bürger der BRD veranlasst.</h4>
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<br /> Wir erklären uns solidarisch mit den lettischen Antifaschisten, die seit<br /> mehreren Jahren den Protest<br /> gegen das SS-Treffen organisieren, und stehen hinter allen<br /> Antifaschisten und Demokraten aus den<br /> verschiedenen europäischen Ländern, die diese Aktion unterstützen wollen.<br /><br /> gez. Dr. Ulrich Schneider, Generalsekretär der FIR</h4>
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Nachdem fünf Mitglieder der VVN-BdA mehrere Stunden auf dem Flughafen von Riga festgehalten worden waren, weil sie sich an den Protesten gegen den Ehrenmarsch für die Waffen-SS beteiligen wollten, wurden sie schließlich mit unbekanntem Ziel in einem Gefangenentransportwagen zeitweise unter Blaulicht fortgeschafft. Gegen Abend fanden sie sich an der litauischen Grenze wieder, wo die Polizei einen Fernreisebus anhielt. In diesen hinein verfrachtet, trafen sie 20 Stunden später wieder in Berlin ein.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Währenddessen konnten andere Mitglieder der VVN-BdA trotzdem in Riga unter intensiver Polizeibegleitung gemeinsam mit unseren lettischen Freunden von „Lettland ohne Nazismus“ und dem Direktor des Simon-Wiesenthal-Zentrums New York, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, sichtbar in der Nähe des Freiheits-Monumentes demonstrieren. Der Protest fand große Beachtung und stieß auf Interesse bei der Presse.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Der Marsch der SS-Veteranen und ihrer Anhänger formierte sich nach dem Besuch eines Gottesdienstes in der St. Peters Kirche, angeführt durch den Pastor. Etwa 1.000 Veteranen und Anhänger – darunter auch sichtbar organisierte Gruppen von Neofaschisten – marschierten zum Freiheits-Monument. Der Marsch sei "gruselig" gewesen, hieß es in einem ersten Kommentar aus Riga.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Commemoration of the veterans of the latvian Waffen-SS legion in Riga:<br />
German Antifascists deported - the scandal remains!<br />
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After 5 members of the Association of the Persecutes of Naziregime - Federation of Antifascists were held in custody in the airport of Riga for several hours, because they wanted to participate in the protest against the commemoration of the Waffen-SS, they were put into a prison transporter which carried them to an unknown target - temporarily with turned on police siren. In the evening they arrived at the latvian-lithuanian border, where the police stopped a international line bus and seated them there. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1900382959" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ"><span style="color: #222222;">20 hours later</span></span></span> they arrived in Berlin.<br />
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Meanwhile other members of the Association of Persecutes of Naziregime - Federation of Antifascists were still able to achieve visible protest, close to the Liberation-Monument, with our friends from "Latvia without Nazism" and the director of the Simon-Wiesenthal-Centre New York, Dr. Efraim Zurof. However, despite a huge mobilisation of police forces the antifascist protest was widely noticed and the media showed major interest.<br />
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The march of the SS-Veterans and their supporters constituted itself after the visit of a prayer in the S.Peters Cathedral and was led by the pastor. Approximately 1000 veterans and supporters - among them obviously organised groups of neofascists - marched to the Liberation-Monument. A first comment from Riga described the march as creepy/scary.<br />
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The protest was visible due to flags, banners and signs and posters with the slogan: "No Glorification of the Holocaust" in latvian and english language.<br />
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Also pictures from massacres on the jewish population were shown, that have been commited by the commando Viktor Arajs which was part ofthe latvian SS-Legions. Related to that houndreds of names of jewish victims from Riga were read aloud. Still this was only possible until the march came close enough to hear it, from that point on the loudspeakers had to be turned off.<br />
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While the latvian public authorities do everything to enable veterans of the Waffen-SS to walk though the city of Riga without being disturbed, protesting Antifascists are criminalised and are hindered in their work outrageously.<br />
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Images from the February 16th 2016 Neo-Nazi March in Kaunas, Lithuania</h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 8pt;">KAUNAS</span></strong>—For the fifth year running, the Defending History team was the only monitor on site to observe and record the neo-Nazi march in the center of Kaunas, from start to finish, on February 16th, the anniversary of Lithuania’s 1918 declaration of independence. Yet again, the center of Kaunas, the interwar capital and modern Lithuania’s second city, was gifted by the city’s authorities to the neo-Nazis for their event, which drew hundreds, and was kept orderly by a highly professional, and by now experienced, police and state security presence (which, as ever, took every care to keep the Defending History team secure throughout the day).</div>
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This year’s theme was a front-of-march “We Know Our Nation’s Heroes” banner featuring six figures who share the following unsettling common denominator: all were alleged Nazi collaborators and/or Holocaust perpetrators (from left): <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/footprints-adolfas-ramanauskas-vanagas-mass-murder-jews-druskininkai/65177">Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/posthumous-remaking-of-a-holocaust-perpetrator-in-lithuania-why-is-jonas-noreika-a-national-hero-by-evaldas-balciunas/31531">Jonas Noreika</a>, <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-holocaust-envy-to-holocaust-theft/">Povilas Plechavičius</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/documents-which-argue-for-ethnic-cleansing-by-kazys-skirpa-stasys-rastikis-stasys-lozoraitis-and-petras-klimas-in-1940-1941-and-by-birute-terese-burauskaite-in-2015/78459">Kazys Škirpa</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/the-history-of-three-lithuanian-freedom-army-lfa-colonels-who-served-the-nazis/34244#baltusis">Antanas Baltūsis-Žvejas</a>, and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/new/34584">Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis</a>. It is as if the marchers are celebrating the murder of the 30,000 Jewish citizens of Kaunas, the more than 95% of the over 200,000 strong Lithuanian Jewish population on the eve of the Holocaust, and the resulting “cleansing” of Lithuania’s Jewish minority.</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MEDIA REPORTS: </span><a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/kaune-tautininkai-zygiavo-tradicinese-eitynese-56-582777" style="color: maroon;">15min.lt</a>; <a href="http://lietuvosdiena.lrytas.lt/aktualijos/tautininku-eitynese-kaune-perspejimai-pabegeliams.htm" style="color: maroon;">Lrytas.lt</a>; <a href="http://kaunas.kasvyksta.lt/2016/02/16/politika/eityniu-dalyviai-apie-nepritariancius-tai-putino-atsiusti-zmones/" style="color: maroon;">Kaunas.kasviksta.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Lithuania-must-confront-its-past-at-Kaunas-march-445000" style="color: maroon;">Efraim Zuroff’s Jerusalem Post op-ed on the eve of the march</a>; <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/on-the-eve-of-another-neo-nazi-march-in-the-center-of-kaunas-on-independence-day/79756" style="color: maroon;">Defending History’s pre-march report</a>.</span></h4>
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As ever, variants on the swastika and other fascist symbols were freely displayed with no interventions or comment by the police and other security forces.</div>
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One of the handmade signs on display:<br />
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There were just three counter-protesters, one from Kaunas and two from Panevėžys, whose sign reads: “Lithuania — Not the Third Reich”.</div>
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The Defending History monitoring team comprised <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/balciunas-evaldas">Evaldas Balčiūnas</a> who came from Šiauliai; Ruta Ostrovskaya who made the trip from Birštonas; and from Vilnius — <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/chersonski-milan">Milan Chersonski</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/dovid-katz-recent-publications71810-2">Dovid Katz</a>, and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/norwilla-julius">Julius Norwilla</a>. The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/">Dr. Efraim Zuroff</a> and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/vanagaite-ruta">Rūta Vanagaitė</a>, co-authors of a major new book on the Lithuanian Holocaust, attended the opening event at Ramybės Park in central Kaunas.</div>
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Tallinn, Estonia February 24</div>
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Vilnius, Lithuania March 11</div>
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Riga, Latvia March 16<br />
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Already in a press release <strong>16.03.1999 </strong>the Simon Wiesenthal centre in Jerusalem condemned the march of the legionaries and<br />
stated, ‘<em>although these units were not involved in crimes against humanity, many of their soldiers had previously served in the Latvian security police and had actively participated in the mass murder of civilians, primarily Jews...The stubborn insistence of Latvia’s SS Legion veterans to conduct a public march to glorify their role as combatants on behalf of the Third Reich is a clear indication that many Latvians have still not internalised the lessons of WWII... not one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence, far too many Latvians feel free to identify with those who fought alongside the perpetrators of the Holocaust rather than with its victims’.</em></div>
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<strong>Abandon defamation of Holocaust survivors and glorification of Holocaust perpetrators</strong></div>
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To help people find out more about the situation in Lithuania see: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=47128" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/?<wbr></wbr></span>p=47128</a></div>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/december-2012-london-conference-and-protest-box-coverage-to-24-dec/47637" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr></span>december-2012-london-<wbr></wbr>conference-and-protest-box-<wbr></wbr>coverage-to-24-dec/47637</a><span style="color: #555555;"> links to You Tube clips and articles and letters</span></div>
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<strong>2. Stop the 16 March marches in Riga, Latvia!</strong> Add your voice to this petition here: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr></span>stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr>latvians_revising_history</a></div>
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YOU TUBE CLIPS OF PREVIOUS MARCHES</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">3.1 </span>Monday 8 July 2013, 'Jewish Hour' on Salford City Radio 94.4FM</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Interview with Monica Lowenberg speaking about her trip to Latvia and the annual SS marches that take place in the capital of Riga.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">3<strong>.</strong>2 </span> Nazi Heroes- Waffen SS hailed in Latvia</div>
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VIEWS: over 109,000 as of April 2014 </div>
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Photo reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches this year. The reportage is accompanied by an interview with Dr Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014 and MEP Richard Howitt's speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City radio station,17 March 2014. <br />
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Invitation to protest with the VVN against the annual SS glorification march Riga, Latvia 16 March 2016</h2>
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Reise zur Demo in Riga gegen Ehrung der Waffen-SS / 16. März 2015 VVN Berlin</div>
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Ihr Lieben alle,<br />
untenstehende Mail leite ich gerne an euch weiter.<br />
Kommt mit nach Riga!<br />
Alljährlich am 16. März "ehren" hunderte Menschen in Riga in Lettland<br />
die „Lettische Legion“, also die Angehörigen der 14. und 19.<br />
Waffen-SS-Division. Dagegen protestieren nur wenige dutzend Menschen,<br />
unter ihnen teils Angehörige von Jüdinnen und Juden, die im Holocaust<br />
ermordet wurden. Organisiert werden die Proteste u.A. von „Lettland ohne<br />
Nazismus“ (Latvija bez Nazism, LBN).<br />
In Lettland ist der "Tag der Legionäre" und damit die Verherrlichung<br />
der Waffen-SS. faktisch ein Nationalfeiertag<br />
2014 hat die VVN-BdA und die Die Internationale Föderation der<br />
Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) - Bund der Antifaschisten die Proteste<br />
unterstützt. Aus Deutschland, Ungarn, Polen, Schweden und Israel kam<br />
weitere Unterstützung.<br />
Ein Bericht über unseren letzten "Ausflug" nach Riga ist hier zu finden:<br />
<a href="https://www.antifainfoblatt.de/artikel/internationale-proteste-gegen-ss-gedenkmarsch-riga" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.antifainfoblatt.de/…/internationale-proteste-ge…</a><br />
Ein Pressespiegel hier:<a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Foberndorfgedenken.de%2Friga%2520waffen%2520ss.pdf&h=KAQGtsFgtAQG5C2H4y7siO72xjvah1LVAFSFjQuy_U7c2-Q&enc=AZME9rlThhZiTt6TX5FoZraI8-yB8_0HP_9j3HuA2sGjR6rW7G0XSNOL292vLOR_42bT7uehM2kqSFC3Ek1SKWZtZRP8lw4JJSvY2pdsDdQhRC1l2B9r_NdoielCJrOAXwu87GZ2ga7aABNwDvpDZQTcTuhRxRKKDc5uYF9sUn9hvB4-DDdFdeJlJcD5cwCCzvcOAyt7AZyJ7otk4tOAqDVq&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://oberndorfgedenken.de/riga%20waffen%20ss.pdf</a><br />
Für weitere Informationen. Schreibt uns oder ruft uns an.<br />
+49 (0)30-55579083-2 oder (0)<br />
Bitte leitet die Mail an Interessierte weiter!<br />
Besten Gruß, Terra,<br />
Berliner VVN-BdA e.V.<br />
Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,<br />
vor zwei Jahren ist die VVN-BdA mit einem Bus von Berlin aus nach Riga<br />
gefahren, um dort gegen die Ehrung der Waffen-SS am "Tag der Legion" zu<br />
demonstrieren. Das war ein politisch sehr erfolgreicher Protest. 2015<br />
konnten wir dies leider nicht wiederholen, da unsere Partner vor Ort es<br />
so schwer hatten, dass sie keine internationale Aktion durchführen<br />
konnten. In diesem Jahr wird es jedoch weder eine Demo geben, an der wir<br />
uns beteiligen können. Die Anreise wird diesmal individuell erfolgen. In<br />
Riga treffen wir uns in einem noch zu benennenden Hotel und werden von<br />
dort aus unsere Unternehmung starten. Der Protesttag ist der 16. März<br />
(ein Mittwoch). Die Anreise sollte am 15. März erfolgen und die Abreise<br />
am 17. März. Ein Flug kostet derzeit ca. 80 €. Wir können pro Teilnehmer<br />
einen Reisezuschuss von 50 € gewähren. Für die Unterbringung sorgen<br />
unsere lettischen Freunde. Wichtig ist, dass ihr möglichst bald bucht,<br />
da die Tarife mit näherndem Termin deutlich steigen. Meldet euch<br />
außerdem bitte bei uns an, damit wir für die Unterkunft planen können<br />
und überhaupt wissen wieviele wir sein werden.<br />
Viele Grüße,<br />
Thomas Willms<br />
Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes – Bund der Antifaschistinnen<br />
und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA) e.V.<br />
Bundesvereinigung Magdalenenstr. 19,<br />
10365 Berlin<br />
Tel.: +49 (0)30-55579083-2,<br />
Fax: +49 (0)30-55579083-9<br />
E-Mail:bundesbuero@vvn-bda.de <a href="http://www.vvn-bda.de/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.vvn-bda.de</a><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/61221-150215-four-baltic-marches-one-dangerous-racist-trend"><span style="color: maroon;">Efraim Zuroff’s op-ed on all four marches calls on Brussels to take a stand</span></a></strong></h3>
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CITY-CENTRE NEO-NAZI MARCHES THAT GLORIFIED WARTIME HITLER COLLABORATORS TOOK PLACE IN ALL THREE BALTIC STATES; ESTONIAN & LITHUANIAN EVENTS WERE ON NATIONS’ INDEPENDENCE DAY HOLIDAYS</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>ESTONIA:</strong> TALLINN, <a href="http://www.ekre.ee/tule-torvikurongkaigule/">FEBRUARY 24TH</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">LATVIA: RIGA, currently holding the rotating presidency of the European council held an SS march on <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history">MARCH 16TH</a> 2015 . The international community, the UK <strong>government, the European Union and NATO should condemn the Nazi event in clearer terms, as Waffen SS veterans are not seen as legitimate “heroes” in any EU member state which Latvia has been granted status since 2004. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">(see </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Report on Latvia</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <strong><em>by the ECRI</em> (<em>European Commission Against Racism and<br />Intolerance published 21 February 2012)</em></strong></span></strong></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>An open Letter from Monica Lowenberg to Denis MacShane </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">published in the New Statesman, March 2012 <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/cameron">http://defendinghistory.com/cameron</a> latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss- march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105 </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "calibri"; font-size: x-small;">by Monica Lowenberg published by DefendingHistory.Com 15.03.2013 </span></span></span></span></h3>
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<a href="http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150316/1019544451.html">http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150316/1019544451.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150313/1019441185.html">http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150313/1019441185.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150315/1019530784.html">http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150315/1019530784.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/latvian-veterans-who-fought-alongside-nazis-hold-parade/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">The
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<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/riga-aufmarsch-von-waffen-ss-veteranen-a-1023780.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Spiegel</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://derstandard.at/2000012994487/Mehr-als-1000-Menschen-bei-Marsch-zum-Waffen-SS-Gedenken"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Der
Standard</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://rt.com/news/241153-riga-nazi-veterans-march/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">RT</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latvian-march-honors-veterans-fought-alongside-nazis-29664803"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">ABC
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvian-march-honors-veterans-who-fought-alongside-nazis/2015/03/16/4f44615c-cbd9-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Washington
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2997006/Latvian-march-honors-veterans-fought-alongside-Nazis.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Daily
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Sheva</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article138465744/Veteranen-der-Waffen-SS-marschieren-durch-Riga.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Die
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/hundreds-participate-annual-nazi-veterans-march-latvia-despite-russias-call-stop-it-1848012"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Ibtimes</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2015/03/16/97001-20150316FILWWW00214-les-ex-ss-lettons-defilent-a-riga.php"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Le
Figaro</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/2015/03/16/220133/latviere-hedret-sine-nazi-styrker-i-minnemarsj-i-riga"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Abcnyheter</span></a></div>
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Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Dr. Efraim Zuroff leads a silent, peaceful protest of Just 2 (SWC and Defending History)</h2>
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But his words at event are reported around the globe (including <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latvian-march-honors-veterans-fought-alongside-nazis-29664803">ABC News</a>, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192697">Arutz Sheva</a>, London <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2997006/Latvian-march-honors-veterans-fought-alongside-Nazis.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/riga-aufmarsch-von-waffen-ss-veteranen-a-1023780.html">Der Spiegel</a>, <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/latvian-march-remembers-veterans-who-fought-with-nazis-1426520842">Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvian-march-honors-veterans-who-fought-alongside-nazis/2015/03/16/4f44615c-cbd9-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html">Washington Post</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/simon-wiesenthal-center-director-efraim-zuroff-attends-protest-photo-131249986.html">Yahoo News</a>). SWC’s <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=8776547&ct=14546335&notoc=1">statement</a>. <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/">http://defendinghistory.com/</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>LITHUANIA:</strong> KAUNAS, <a href="http://lndp.lt/diskusijos/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=11162">FEB. 16TH</a> AND VILNIUS, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kovo11eitynes">MARCH 11TH</a></span></h3>
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The Nazi Hunter: Lithuanian Jew-haters gave me a heart attack - but that won't stop me exposing them</div>
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Defending History’s Team of 12 Monitors & Protests Kaunas Independence Day Neo-Nazi March on Feb. 16th</h2>
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Monitoring team was a partnering project of the <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/">Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office</a> and the Vilnius-based Defending History team.</h4>
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<em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dovid.katz/posts/912391222125424?pnref=story">Dozen protesters</a> (vs. a march of up to 500) included five members of Lithuanian Jewish community (in private capacity), but no sign of any <a href="http://www.lzb.lt/en/bagel-shop/">Bagels</a> or other antisemitism (or human rights) monitors. </em></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;">AFTER THE EVENT:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.jta.org/2015/02/17/news-opinion/world/lithuanian-fascists-march-near-execution-site-of-10000-jews">JTA</a>; <a href="http://newsru.com/world/16feb2015/natslit.html">Newsru.com</a>; <a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/tautininku-eitynese-kaune-skambejo-nacionalistiniai-sukiai-lietuva-lietuviams-56-485371#_">15min.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.alfa.lt/straipsnis/49805367/kaune-ryztingai-prazygiavo-eityniu-dalyviai">Alfa.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.balsas.lt/naujiena/824810/kaune-vyko-tautininku-eitynes">Balsas.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/kaune-tautinio-jaunimo-eitynes.d?id=67183646">Delfi.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.enlacejudio.com/2015/02/17/fascistas-lituanos-marchan-con-esvasticas-donde-10000-judios-fueron-ejecutados/">Enlacejudío.com</a>; <a href="http://faktai.lt/lietuva/kaune-vyksta-tautininku-eitynes/">Faktai.lt</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dovid.katz/posts/912391222125424?pnref=story">FB</a>; <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_1_0_t&usg=AFQjCNHM2qukbqKNVIAqA0E4lqyiB0-4xQ&did=8bf2dea045a0cce6&sig2=bWoXPk3XpzxBIJEPPYYVwg&cid=52778741580433&ei=BTjkVNHWEouf1QacwoDACg&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforward.com%2Farticles%2F214903%2F-neo-nazis-march-in-lithuania-massacre-city%2F">Forward</a>; <a href="http://www.info-smi.ru/politika/v-kaynase-proshlo-shestvie-molodeji-s-lozyngom-litva-litovcam.html">Info.smi</a>; <a href="http://www.interfax.ru/world/424468">Interfax</a>; <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nazi-hunter-lithuanian-jew-haters-gave-me-heart-attack-that-wont-stop-me-exposing-them-1488571">International Business Times</a>; <a href="http://www.israel-nachrichten.org/archive/15712">Israel Nachrichten</a>; <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Lithuanian-fascists-march-beneath-swastikas-near-execution-site-of-10000-Jews-391289">Jerusalem Post</a>; <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Confronting-neo-Nazis-in-Lithuania-391471">JP (2)</a>; <a href="http://kauno.diena.lt/galerijos/vaizdai/tautinio-jaunimo-eisena-675672">Kauno diena</a>; <a href="http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/93199/kaune_vyko_tautininku_eitynes">Lrt.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.lrytas.lt/lietuvos-diena/aktualijos/kauno-centre-nusidrieke-patriotiniu-eityniu-kolona-201502161448.htm">Lrytas.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.obzor.lt/news/n15296.html">Obzor</a>; <a href="http://www.newsru.co.il/world/17feb2015/katz456.html">Newsru.co.il</a>; <a href="http://www.02elf.net/international/europa-die-juengsten-antisemitischen-vorfaelle-916717">News02elf</a>; <a href="http://www.radiojai.com.ar/OnLine/notiDetalle.asp?id_Noticia=74179">Radiojai.com.ar</a>; <a href="http://rt.com/news/233119-neo-nazis-march-lithuania/">RT</a>; <a href="http://www.shalomlife.com/news/28276/hundreds-of-lithuanian-neo-nazis-march-at-jewish-execution-site/">Shalom Life</a>; <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=8776547&ct=14524141">Simon Wiesenthal Center;</a> <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lithuanian-fascists-march-near-holocaust-execution-site/">Times of Israel</a> (<a href="http://actualite-israel.com/des-fascistes-lituaniens-manifestent-pres-d-un-site-de-la-shoah-461403/">French edition</a>).</h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;">RUN-UP TO THE EVENT:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/61221-150215-four-baltic-marches-one-dangerous-racist-trend">i24</a>; <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/run-up-to-the-16-feb-2015-neo-nazi-march-in-central-kaunas/71576">Defending History</a> (+ <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/correspondence-with-kaunas-mayors-office-to-13-february-2015/71547">DH correspondence with mayor’s office</a>; + <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wiesenthal-centers-efraim-zuroff-writes-to-mayor-of-kaunas-on-neo-nazi-marcn/71535">SWC’s letter to the mayor</a>).</h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;">PHOTO COLLECTIONS:</span></strong> <a href="http://1drv.ms/1BipGwv">Julius Norwilla</a>; <a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/tautininku-eitynese-kaune-skambejo-nacionalistiniai-sukiai-lietuva-lietuviams-56-485371#galerija/61058/1344603">15min.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/kaune-tautinio-jaunimo-eitynes.d?id=67183646#!dgs=dgslt-176436:5806997">Delfi.lt</a>; <a href="http://kauno.diena.lt/galerijos/vaizdai/tautinio-jaunimo-eisena-675672#/galerija/image21">Kauno diena</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=912389002125646&set=pcb.912391222125424&type=1&theater">Facebook</a>.</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><strong>VIDEOS:</strong></span> <a href="http://tv.lrytas.lt/?id=13610190061360949442">Lrytas.tv</a>; <a href="http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/93199/kaune_vyko_tautininku_eitynes">Lrt.lt</a>.</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><strong>NEO-NAZI & FAR-RIGHT REACTION</strong>:</span> <a href="http://ldiena.lt/straipsnis/734/antilietuviskos-propagandos-porcija-vasario-16-os-proga-kiek-dar-kentesime-smeizikus-ir-melagius">LDiena.lt</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TautosJaunimas/posts/818855378185807">Nationalist Youth Union</a>; <a href="https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1088843/">Stormfront</a>; <a href="http://vyrud.livejournal.com/246029.html">Vyrud.livejournal</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=913863591977239&id=206042722759333">Zeppelinus 1</a> + <a href="https://plus.google.com/118198014712853689988/posts/YXKcQoyTuMW">Zeppelinus 2</a>.</h3>
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I am pleased to hear that the Latvian Government has forbidden Ministers from attending the march this year, but condemn the Latvian High Court’s decision of 2013, forcing the Riga Mayor to apologise for all the years of trying to ban it.</div>
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Coming from Britain, I am saddened that the governing Conservative Party from my country chooses to ally itself in a common European Group with the Latvian “For Fatherland and Freedom Party,” whose Member of the European Parliament is on record as supporting this sickening celebration, even supporting its previous status as a public holiday in the country.</div>
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I am also shocked at the report that the British Conservative MEP who was head of his European group in 2012, is reported to have personally refused to sign the petition against the celebration , despite 7,000 people worldwide having done so.</div>
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The party of Government of my country should not sit with a party which has proposed the Waffen SS troops be renamed “liberation fighters.”</div>
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Today, the British Labour Party stands with all victims of the Second World War, all who condemn fascism, all who oppose antisemitism and other forms of racism, to express our horror at those who seek to rewrite history in order to justify those who would spread bitterness, hate and division in a new century.</div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Dialogues with Latvian ambassadors in London and Berlin since 2012</span></strong></div>
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">For a copy of the Manifesto please click <a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/live/click.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bod.org.uk%2Fcontent%2FEUManifesto.pdf&o=&v=f906c6" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc6611;">here</span></a>.<br /><br />See in particular section 3, Post Holocaust issues sections 3.3 Holocaust revisionism<br /><br /> In Europe, the 2008 Prague Declaration caused alarm among many Jewish communities by conflating crimes under Soviet Communism with Nazi crimes. The concern here is that some countries<span class="text_exposed_show"> have<br /> attempted to deflect attention from the complicity of their wartime governments in the Holocaust, using this as a cynical attempt to avoid liability for compensation to Jewish victims. The crimes that<br /> Communist governments committed against their people should be explored and the perpetrators prosecuted, but it is important that countries acknowledge their role in the Holocaust and do not<br /> attempt to dismiss a very troubled period in their history by reference to what happened under Communism.<br /> At times, a related trope is that many leading Communists were Jews and so the Jews as a whole are complicit in the crimes of Communism. The rationale continues that, as such, Jews in general do not<br /> deserve sympathy or compensation for what they suffered during the Holocaust. But the fact that some Jews were leading Communists did not leave Jews – as a corporate entity – with the wealth of the subjugated people in the same way that Nazi expropriation of Jewish property remains in the hands of some states.<br /><strong>Commitment</strong>: MEPs should challenge their European colleagues on these narratives that seek to minimise or downplay the Holocaust.<br /><br /><strong>and section 3.2 on restitution</strong><br /> In Croatia and Latvia, the relevant legislation has been delayed. In Romania, the processing of claims and payments has been extremely slow. Recent legislation risks further delays and reductions in<br /> compensation payments. In Hungary, discussions continue about restitution for heirless and hitherto unclaimed property formerly owned by Jews. Poland has one of the worst records on restitution of<br /> private property. It back-tracked on some of the commitments it made at the 2009 Terezin Conference, and was the only one of the 47 countries not to send a delegate to the 2012 Prague Conference.<br /> The great injustice about the delays in restitution payments mean that some of the Holocaust’s victims will pass away without ever seeing their property returned.<br /><strong>Commitment:</strong> MEPs should use the moral authority of their position to call for a just and speedy conclusion to the issue of restitution across Europe and to press the institutions of the European Union to do the same</span></span></div>
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<br />New documentary on The Riga Ghetto out soon<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.phoenix-medienakademie.com/riga-survive/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.phoenix-<wbr></wbr></span>medienakademie.com/riga-<wbr></wbr>survive/</a></h2>
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15 February 2015<br /><br />Four Baltic marches, one dangerous racist trend</h2>
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1. Petitioning HE President Dalia Grybauskaitė , <strong>President of Lithuania</strong></div>
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<strong>Abandon defamation of Holocaust survivors and glorification of Holocaust perpetrators</strong></div>
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To find out more about the situation in Lithuania see: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=47128" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/?<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">p=47128</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/december-2012-london-conference-and-protest-box-coverage-to-24-dec/47637" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">december-2012-london-<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">conference-and-protest-box-<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">coverage-to-24-dec/47637</span></a><span style="color: #555555;"> links to You Tube clips and articles and letters</span></div>
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<strong>2. Stop the 16 March marches in Riga, Latvia!</strong><br />
1. Add your voice to this petition here: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr></span><span style="color: #cc6611;">latvians_revising_history</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">3.1 </span><strong>Monday 8 July 2013</strong>, 'Jewish Hour' on Salford City Radio 94.4FM</div>
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Photo reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches last year. The reportage is accompanied by an interview with Dr Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014 and MEP Richard Howitt's speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City radio station,17 March 2014. <br />
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first published by Hope not Hate 5 April 2013</h3>
<b><br /> By Monica Lowenberg </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">Not every day that one sees William Hague courting photo shoots with Hollywood A lister Angelina Jolie, who is also a noted human rights activist. ‘Human rights’ is the buzz word this week. When I got up Saturday morning and found a letter from Hague’s office, in response to mine about British silence in the face of EU partner Latvia’s honouring the Hitlerist Waffen SS with official support, it looked promising. <br /><br /> In February, I had asked PM Cameron to write a simple letter to the Latvian president Andris Berzins who has proclaimed publicly that Latvian SS veterans should be ‘bowed down to’. I asked Cameron, an heir of Churchill, to ask for a halt to the glorification of SS veterans in an EU and NATO country. This glorification includes annual state-blessed marches in the centre of the capital city that are riddled with pro-Nazi sentiment. <br /><br /> The SS veterans are seen by a growing number of Latvian nationalists as ‘freedom fighters’ who fought against the Soviet Union. Of course we should all condemn Soviet evils separately, but that is not the point here. <br /><br /> Today’s letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office tells me: </span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">I understand that this is an emotive issue for all those involved. I am pleased to note that this year’s events passed off safely. The history of the Latvian Legion is complex and one which historians are best placed fully to understand. The UK believes that the abolition of Legionnaires Day is essentially a matter for the Latvian Government and I hope that you understand that this is not a matter in which the UK government has any locus to become involved’</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">. Letter dated 27</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">th </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">March 2013, signed by Dave Naylor, Northern and Central Europe Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><br /> Bearing in mind that Mr Naylor’s boss had had since 2009 rather close contact with the Latvian government, to the extent that he was prepared to support them to the hilt, it does seem strange that three years on when Latvia’s ugly past rears its head they are unable to intervene. What on earth is the British government afraid of? Or maybe getting into bed with SS lovers is not an ‘emotive’ or hot enough topic for senior Tories? Was standing up to Hitler and his cronies an abject waste of time by Britain and her allies? </span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">Back on October 1</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">st </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">2009 Hague said of then foreign secretary David Milliband: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">David Miliband's smears are disgraceful and represent a failure of his duty to promote Britain's interests as foreign secretary…He has just insulted the Latvian Government, most of whose member parties have attended the commemoration of Latvia's war dead</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">.’ Hague virulently retorted when Miliband correctly characterised the British Conservatives alliance with Latvian MEP Robert Zile as ‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">not leadership but pandering, not judgement but dogma, not patriotic defence of national interest but the white flag of surrender to euro-extremists in his own party</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">." Merkel ,Sarkozy and even true blue conservative Yorkshire MEP Edward Macmillan Scott , who was duly sacked for daring to state that ‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">Cameron was flirting with respectable fascism’</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">, were all equally incensed at Cameron’s Latvian liaison. But Hague, Callanan, Hannan and Pickles continued to state with almost religious fervour that the Latvian SS veterans ‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">were only following orders</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">’. A special kind of blindness had and does clearly afflict them, one that the Latvian PR team, full of hack historians (from east and west alike!) paid to sanitise and distort Latvia’s ugly past work day and night at,have given them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><i>committed during World War II – the crimes of Nazism and Stalinism. Latvia is committed to the values of democratic and open society and we will endeavour to facilitate true consolidation of the people and countries who suffered under totalitarian regimes during World War II.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "verdana";">’ TRANSLATION: In other words we will revise history, we will not deny the Holocaust but we will dismiss it nevertheless, we will do so by making a false symmetry and equalisation between the crimes of Communism and Nazis. We will ensure that the world sees us as victims of two genocides, Nazism and Communism. Really Ambassador Stiprais, where was it written that Stalin intended to kill all Latvians? When did he try to do that? Different evils deserve different commemorations, not the glorification of fascism. Latvia, like Lithuania, Estonia, has been among the staunchest supporters of the 2008 Prague Declaration that would write the Holocaust out of history with its far-right red-equals-brown demands. </span></span><br />
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The musical rehabilitation of a Latvian mass murderer</h1>
<strong>A new play in Latvia portrays Herberts Cukurs as a national hero - not the cruel killer of Jews that he was</strong><br />
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This coming Saturday night, October 11 2014, a new musical premieres in the Latvian port city of Liepaja, the first stop on a nationwide tour. Such an event would hardly be news worthy were it not for the fact that rather than simple entertainment, the play is a brazen attempt to rehabilitate the image of one of the most notorious mass murderers of Jews in the Baltics during the Holocaust.<br />
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The subject of the play is Herberts Cukurs, the deputy commander of the infamous Arajs Kommando, which played a leading role in the mass annihilation of the Jews in Riga and throughout the country in the year following the Nazi invasion of Latvia, and later was an active participant in the killing of Jews in Belarus (most notably from the Minsk Ghetto).<br />
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Although Cukurs' role in the atrocities was well-known, like many Baltic Nazi war criminals he was able to escape justice by fleeing overseas, in his case to Brazil. Once discovered there, the Soviets asked for his extradition to face war crimes charges, but the Brazilians refused, claiming that they would only send him back to the country in which he committed his crimes. Latvia, however, no longer existed. The resulting legal limbo which prevented Cukurs' prosecution and punishment, and an impending possible statute of limitations on the cases of Nazi war criminals in Germany, prompted an uncharacteristic response from Israel, which sent a team of Mossad operatives to execute him. Ironically, it was this act of retribution, which took place in Montevideo in 1965, which paved the way for recent attempts by Cukurs' family and Latvian ultra-nationalists to whitewash his crimes.<br />
This campaign began several years ago with the issuing of envelopes carrying Cukurs' likeness, an exhibition entitled "Herberts Cukurs: The Presumption of Innocence," and a documentary film which sought to promote his innocence. To understand it one must be aware of Cukurs' status as a Latvian national hero during the thirties.<br />
He earned his fame as a bold aviator, who built several airplanes of his own design, and flew solo to exotic destinations in Africa (Gambia) and the Far East (Tokyo). He even flew to Palestine and later lectured in Riga to Jewish audiences. It is this fame, paired with the fact that Cukurs had never been convicted in a court of law for his Holocaust crimes, which forms the basis for the campaign to restore him to national glory in Latvia. Along with the current efforts to rewrite the narrative of World War II and the Holocaust in the Baltics, it aims to minimize the highly significant role of local collaborators in the murders, and focus more attention on Baltic victimhood under the Communists.<br />
The most powerful arguments against these attempts to restore a mass murderer like Cukurs to the status of a national hero are the numerous testimonies of Jewish survivors, many which were recorded shortly after the end of the war, but in this respect Cukurs' pre-war fame worked against him. Unlike the large majority of the other Latvian Nazi collaborators, Cukurs was well-known, and hence easily identifiable by quite a few of his erstwhile victims. Thus, for example, Rafael Shub related in a testimony I found in the Yad Vashem Archives, that on July 2, 1941, Cukurs had burned to death eight Jews in the new [Jewish] cemetery in Riga, even identifying his victims - synagogue sexton Feldheim, his wife and four children, and Cantor Mintz and his wife.<br />
Another survivor, Abraham Shapiro, who was interned at the Arajs Kommando headquarters at Valdamaras St. 19, testified that Cukurs had personally murdered two Jews, who failed to follow his orders, and later witnessed Cukurs and other Latvian officers sexually molest and torture a young Jewish girl, while Shapiro was ordered to play the piano. The most damning evidence came from Max Tukacier, who told members of the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany in 1948 that Cukurs had beaten and executed men, women, and children who could not keep pace when the Jews of Riga were force-marched to be murdered at Rumbula Forest outside the city, in the mass executions of November 30 and December 8, 1941. He also recalled how the famous aviator had ordered an elderly Jew to rape a twenty year old Jewess in front of a crowd of Latvian police and prisoners at Arajs headquarters and when he failed to do so, ordered him to kiss the girl all over her naked body again and again. About 10-15 of the male and female prisoners who could not bear the sight of this humiliation were beaten to death by Cukurs.<br />
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Needless to say, such testimonies will not be part of the musical, which begins its run this Saturday night. A YouTube trailer for the play, featuring the noted Latvian singer Juris Miller, has elicited enthusiastic responses, but apparently no protests. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsdwCXVJwUc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsdwCXVJwUc</a> today's Latvia, for far too many Latvians, it is Cukurs who earns their sympathy, while his Jewish victims are forgotten, or even worse, erased from the historical record.<br />
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<em>Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and director of its Israel Office. His most recent book is "Operation Last Chance; One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice." His website is: www.operationlastchance.org and he can be followed on Twitter @EZuroff</em><br />
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<strong>See also Dr Aleksandrs Feigmanis' excellent article on Cukurs Aleksandrs Feigmanis, at:</strong><br />
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On October 25th 1941 the gates of the Riga ghetto were locked, 29,602 Jews were driven together under strict custody behind barbed wire in the area where about 13,000 people had lived before. Among them 5,652 children, 8.300 invalids, 9,507 women, 6,143 men. <br />
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Boris Maftsir, a Latvian-born Israeli film-maker, saw the musical during a recent visit to Riga, and said he was disturbed by the reaction of the crowd.<br />
"What shocked me was that after the show, they all gave it standing ovations. Hundreds of people, they applauded," said Maftsir, whose maternal grandparents were killed in Riga during the Nazi occupation. "Suddenly this Nazi officer can be a national hero. For me it was shocking<br />
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BRAVO to LatviaNews.lv for publishing some common sense on the Cukurs affair in Latvia: <a href="http://www.latviannews.lv/news/6232/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.latviannews.lv/news/6232/</a></div>
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<strong>Collaborator. (No longer a dirty word?)</strong></div>
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The crisis in Ukraine has revealed to the world the divisions that exist throughout Europe about how the Second World War is remembered.</div>
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An important article from this month's HISTORY TODAY on the historical revisionism sweeping Europe. The SEVENTY YEARS DECLARATION (<a href="http://www.seventyyearsdeclaration.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.seventyyearsdeclaration.org</a>) featured in Danny Ben Moshe's documentary 'Rewriting History' is discussed on the last page and SS marches and glorification in Latvia p13.</div>
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The Board of Deputies of British Jews has just become a signatory to the Seventy Years Declaration, endorsing the campaign against double genocide.Other major UK organisations, including the European Union for Progressive Judaism and the United Synagogue of Great Britain have also joined the campaign.</div>
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<strong>You can add your voice to the various campaigns against historical revisionism here:</strong></div>
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1. Petitioning HE President Dalia Grybauskaitė , <strong>President of Lithuania</strong></div>
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<strong>2. </strong> <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr></span>stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr>latvians_revising_history</a><br />
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Seventy three years after the Wannsee conference and on the anniversaries of the petition <em>Stop the 16th March marches and Latvians revising history </em>and <em>The Seventy Years Declaration </em>Latvia's permanent UNESCO delegation vetoes Holocaust exhibition in Paris. The exhibition showing the crimes the Nazis committed in Salaspils was cancelled out of fears that it will place Latvia in a bad light whilst they hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union until July 2015.</div>
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How can recounting the crimes of the Nazis and their allies harm the image of modern-day Latvia? It is only possible if Latvia treats Nazi crimes as its own. </div>
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Salaspils concentration camp was established in 1941, some 11 miles southeast of the Latvian capital Riga. According to protocols from the Nuremberg trials, more than 100,000 people died at the camp.</div>
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<strong>22 January 2015</strong><br />
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<strong>Double genocide has become the deadliest form of denial</strong><br />
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The 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches amid a disturbing new cover-up of Holocaust history. Across Eastern Europe, the notion of a "Double Genocide" - the idea that there were two equal holocausts, Soviet and Nazi - has been pushed by governments and nationalist elites in the media and arts. <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/128663/double-genocide-has-become-deadliest-form-denial">http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/128663/double-genocide-has-become-deadliest-form-denial</a><br />
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<strong>New documentary on The Riga Ghetto out soon</strong><br />
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<strong>15 February 2015</strong><br />
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<strong>Four Baltic marches, one dangerous racist trend</strong></div>
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1. Petitioning HE President Dalia Grybauskaitė , <strong>President of Lithuania</strong></div>
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To find out more about the situation in Lithuania see: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=47128" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/?<wbr></wbr></span>p=47128</a></div>
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<strong>2. Stop the 16 March marches in Riga, Latvia!</strong><br />
1. Add your voice to this petition here: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr></span>stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr>latvians_revising_history</a></div>
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Photo reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches last year. The reportage is accompanied by an interview with Dr Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014 and MEP Richard Howitt's speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City radio station,17 March 2014. <br />
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<strong>16 February 2015</strong><br />
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Defending History Musters 12 Protesters at Kaunas Independence Day Neo-Nazi March on Feb. 16th</h2>
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<em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dovid.katz/posts/912391222125424?pnref=story">Dozen protesters</a> are led by Wiesenthal Center’s Dr. Efraim Zuroff, and include five members of Lithuanian Jewish community (in private capacity). Effort is a partnership of the <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/">Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office</a> and the Vilnius-based Defending History team.</em></h4>
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<strong>Media Coverage:</strong></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;">AFTER THE EVENT:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.jta.org/2015/02/17/news-opinion/world/lithuanian-fascists-march-near-execution-site-of-10000-jews">JTA</a>; <a href="http://newsru.com/world/16feb2015/natslit.html">Newsru.com</a>; <a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/tautininku-eitynese-kaune-skambejo-nacionalistiniai-sukiai-lietuva-lietuviams-56-485371#_">15min.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.alfa.lt/straipsnis/49805367/kaune-ryztingai-prazygiavo-eityniu-dalyviai">Alfa.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.balsas.lt/naujiena/824810/kaune-vyko-tautininku-eitynes">Balsas.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/kaune-tautinio-jaunimo-eitynes.d?id=67183646">Delfi.lt</a>; <a href="http://faktai.lt/lietuva/kaune-vyksta-tautininku-eitynes/">Faktai.lt</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dovid.katz/posts/912391222125424?pnref=story">FB</a>; <a href="http://www.info-smi.ru/politika/v-kaynase-proshlo-shestvie-molodeji-s-lozyngom-litva-litovcam.html">Info.smi</a>; <a href="http://www.interfax.ru/world/424468">Interfax</a>; <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Lithuanian-fascists-march-beneath-swastikas-near-execution-site-of-10000-Jews-391289">Jerusalem Post</a>; <a href="http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/93199/kaune_vyko_tautininku_eitynes">Lrt.lt</a> (+video); <a href="http://www.lrytas.lt/lietuvos-diena/aktualijos/kauno-centre-nusidrieke-patriotiniu-eityniu-kolona-201502161448.htm">Lrytas.lt</a>; <a href="http://www.obzor.lt/news/n15296.html">Obzor</a>; <a href="http://www.newsru.co.il/world/17feb2015/katz456.html">Newsru.co.il</a>; <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=8776547&ct=14524141">Simon Wiesenthal Center</a>; <a href="https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1088843/">Stormfront</a>; <strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;">RUN-UP TO THE EVENT:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/61221-150215-four-baltic-marches-one-dangerous-racist-trend">i24</a>; <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/run-up-to-the-16-feb-2015-neo-nazi-march-in-central-kaunas/71576">Defending History</a> (+<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/correspondence-with-kaunas-mayors-office-to-13-february-2015/71547">correspondence with mayor’s office</a>);</h3>
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In February, I had asked PM Cameron to write a simple letter to the Latvian president Andris Berzins who has proclaimed publicly that Latvian SS veterans should be ‘bowed down to’. I asked Cameron, an heir of Churchill, to ask for a halt to the glorification of SS veterans in an EU and NATO country. This glorification includes annual state-blessed marches in the centre of the capital city that are riddled with pro-Nazi sentiment. <br />
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The SS veterans are seen by a growing number of Latvian nationalists as ‘freedom fighters’ who fought against the Soviet Union. Of course we should all condemn Soviet evils separately, but that is not the point here. <br />
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</span> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">‘</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">I understand that this is an emotive issue for all those involved. I am pleased to note that this year’s events passed off safely. The history of the Latvian Legion is complex and one which historians are best placed fully to understand. The UK believes that the abolition of Legionnaires Day is essentially a matter for the Latvian Government and I hope that you understand that this is not a matter in which the UK government has any locus to become involved’</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">. Letter dated 27</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">March 2013, signed by Dave Naylor, Northern and Central Europe Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. </span></span><br />
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Bearing in mind that Mr Naylor’s boss had had since 2009 rather close contact with the Latvian government, to the extent that he was prepared to support them to the hilt, it does seem strange that three years on when Latvia’s ugly past rears its head they are unable to intervene. What on earth is the British government afraid of? Or maybe getting into bed with SS lovers is not an ‘emotive’ or hot enough topic for senior Tories? Was standing up to Hitler and his cronies an abject waste of time by Britain and her allies? <br />
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Incidentally this year’s march was not as peaceful as the FCO would maintain: riot police were active, anti-fascists such as Joel Rubinfeld co-president of the Jewish parliament in Brussels were dragged away, four people were detained by police and after giving an interview with a TV news network, Yaniz Kuzins, chairman of Latvian alliance against Nazism and Riga city council member, was physically assaulted by a neo Nazi. Many others were roughed up and harassed. <br />
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The attendees some as young as three, walked alongside neo-Nazis such as Ričardas Čekutis from neighbouring Lithuania, laying flowers at the monument of freedom in central Riga, an EU capital, and strew flowers across a photo of notorious Latvian Nazi collaborator Robert Ancāns whilst the wreaths to the victims of Nazism were once again desecrated by Latvian youth. <br />
</span> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Whether Hague accepts this fact or not it is incumbent upon the international community, the UK government, the European Union and NATO to condemn </span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">today </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Verdana; font-size: x-small;">all Nazi events in clear terms if they sincerely wish to curb the rise of neo Nazism and right extremism currently sweeping Europe. </span></span><br />
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The photo below is of a group of naked Jewish women and girls walking to their place of execution on a beach near Liepaja, Latvia. Their fate? A mass pit where they were piled up alive and then mowed down by the fire of rifles or a machine gun salvo. They were victims of a regime that raped and pillaged before MURDERING ALL, those whom it raped and those who it did not. Should that regime, and its local henchmen and fighters such as the Waffen SS today be glorified to the tune of "None of our business" from Mr Hague’s Foreign Office? <br />
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on the 16 March and every year, in the very centre of Riga, Latvia, marches
have been regularly held to praise the ‘heroism’ of the former Latvian Legion,
i.e.Waffen SS veterans in their combat against the allies during the Second
World War.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Each year
these events have received tacit (and sometimes very explicit and public)
support from state authorities, in 2012 by Latvian president Andris Berzins
himself who stated we should ‘<em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">bow
our heads</span></em>’ down to the SS. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">The march
has even been condoned by senior British Tories in alliance with the Latvian
MEP Robert Zile who is connected with the ‘Fatherland and Freedom party’/ LNNK,
LNNK being a party that actively supports the marches. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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years the marches have been attended in increasing numbers by deputies of the
Latvian Parliament, members of the Riga City Council and officials of the
Ministry of Defence but perhaps not this year. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">At the
beginning of February, the Latvian Environmental Protection and Regional
Development Minister Einars Cilninskis (VL-TB/LNNK) announced that he would be
attending the march. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">This despite
the ongoing tensions in Ukraine and belief that this year’s march could
possibly be a powder keg situation ready to erupt; provoking ethnic Russians
living in Riga and attracting high profile anti-fascist protesters such as the
eminent historians Dr Hans Coppi from Germany and the Nazi hunter Dr Efraim
Zuroff from Israel.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">On 7 March,
Riga announced the march was to take place. Clearly, the Russian mayor who
always allows the wreath to the victims of Nazism be placed at the Monument of
Freedom and who last year, was told by the high court that the march must take
place and that he must apologise for all the years he had banned it, now has
felt forced to allow it. However, the Latvian government suddenly voted on the
11 March 2014 to forbid government ministers from attending the march. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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certainly a step in the right direction and the parliamentarians who have made
this decision are to be commended. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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question remains, why have a march that glorifies the SS in the centre of an EU
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Riga (now the EU’s “Capital of European Culture”) <i>Really did</i> Allow Yet Another City-Centre Waffen SS Celebration on March 16th!</h1>
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<strong><a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history">MONICA LOWENBERG’S PETITION NEARING THE 7000 MARK</a></strong></h3>
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<strong>See latest photo reportage covering all three Baltic Neo-Nazi marches this year, Kaunas 16 February Vilnius 11 March, Riga 16 March 2014 . The reportage is accompanied by an interview with Dr Efraim Zuroff on Salford City Radio, 24 March 2014 and MEP Richard Howitt's speech condemning the SS march in Riga, read out on Salford City radio station,17 March 2014.</strong> </div>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/politics-history/67131" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr></span></span>politics-history/67131</a> The politics of history 17.6.2014 opinion by<br />
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<strong>The Neocons and Holocaust Revisionism in Eastern Europe - Jewish Currents by Dovid Katz</strong><br />
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<a href="http://jewishcurrents.org/neocons-holocaust-revisionism-eastern-europe-30613" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://jewishcurrents.org/neocons-holocaust-revisionism-eastern-europe-30613</a> Part One July 22, 2014</div>
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<a href="http://jewishcurrents.org/neocons-holocaust-revisionism-eastern-europe-continued-30677">http://jewishcurrents.org/neocons-holocaust-revisionism-eastern-europe-continued-30677</a> Part Two July 26,2014<br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-ghetto-survivors-herberts-cukurs-hero-2014-show/68385">http://defendinghistory.com/riga-ghetto-survivors-herberts-cukurs-hero-2014-show/68385</a> by Dr Aleksandrs Feigmanis 18 August 2014</div>
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See also: YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ-DNbz3wmA">video</a>, Monica Lowenberg’s <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-capital-of-european-culture-waffen-ss-stags-and-silence/63468#more-63468">article</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCjdF_TNzA">interview</a> (with 2013 images). <em>Defending History </em>sections: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia">Latvia</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/neo-nazi-and-pro-fascist-marches">marches</a>, articles <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/lowenberg-monica">by Monica Lowenberg</a>; in <em>Hope Not Hate</em></h3>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JnHuXNqdw"> Wreath to the victims of Nazism destroyed March 16, 2012</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p><a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch">PCAAfoundation” (UK) - Calls to ban the Baltic’s neo-Nazi marches</a></o:p></span></div>
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Europe (</span><a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf"><span style="color: #000033;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">§ 87</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></span></b></div>
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<o:p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/17/093/1709384.pdf">Report by Dr Gregor Gysi in the Bundestag 24.04.2012</a></span></span></o:p><br />
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<o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/live/content.php?Item_ID=130&Blog_ID=1120">The Board of Deputies of British Jews Jewish Manifesto for the 2014 European Elections</a></span></o:p><br />
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<o:p>For a copy of the Manifesto please click <a href="http://www.bod.org.uk/live/click.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bod.org.uk%2Fcontent%2FEUManifesto.pdf&o=&v=f906c6" target="_blank">here</a>. see in particular post Holocaust issues section 3</o:p><br />
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<strong>2014 News From Around The World as of 17.03.2014</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENTS</span> ( in relation to previous years): Latvian Government advised people to stay away, forbade ministers from attending and sacked the one who did. Latvian MP Nikolajs Kabanovs and journalist Juris Kaža visited Latvia Without Nazism protest conference in gestures of dialogue and reconciliation. British <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/british-mep-richard-howitt-spokesperson-human-rights-issues-statement-riga-waffen-ss-march/64673">MEP Richard Howitt’s statement</a> was read out at the conference.</h4>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">DISCOURAGING:</span> Peaceful protesters were moved to site further from Liberty Monument (Monument of Freedom), leaving them unseen and unheard; bus of German anti-fascists held at (Schengen!) border for hours; Latvia Without Fascism’s “round table” conference harassed by manipulated denials of nearby hotels for the tranquil annual “round table” event. Four Latvian MPs (E. Cilinskis, J. Dombrava, R. Dzintars, I. Parādnieks) attended the Waffen SS fest.</h4>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">FOREIGN MONITORS</span> included Dr. Efraim Zuroff (Wiesenthal Center), group of Berlin-based anti-fascist intellectuals and <em>Defending History</em>.</h4>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">MEDIA:</span> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.580163?v=492D140DA2F8DF7BB0E881DF68FBD6A8">AP</a>; <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/tight-security-as-latvian-nazi-veterans-march-1.1304989">AFP</a> (in <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178573#.UyZ32vmSzVQ">Arutz Sheva</a>); <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140316152530-do2pd/?source=hpbreaking">Thomson Reuters</a>. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/international/2014/03/140316_riga_waffen_ss_march.shtml">BBC</a></h4>
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This is a report by a right wing TV station in Riga, it focuses on the German anti fascist group who were repeatedly hindered by Latvian authorities from protesting, delayed for hours at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement">Schengen</a> border and on the 16 March 2014 removed to a site away from the monument of freedom where in the main they were unseen and unheard see from 4.36 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIgfGYtCxI" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=HpIgfGYtCxI</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Here a report from German fascists who felt very welcomed at the march and according to their report made many new 'friends' in Riga:<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <a href="http://www.romea.cz/en/news/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans-counter-protest-planned#.UyA3jPaiqbE.facebook">Despite problems in Ukraine 7 March 2014 the march is to go ahead</a><br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1773/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans">Hope Not Hate 9 March 2014 'Riga permits march to honor SS veterans'</a></span></div>
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(UK) – From 2012 but as pertinent as ever </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Eastern Europe’s Hitler Nostalgia by Michael Goldfarb</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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MEP Richard Howitt's statement opposing the SS march today in Riga read out 17.03.2014 by Jeff Lewis on<br />
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British MEP Richard Howitt, European Parliament Spokesperson on Human Rights, Issues Statement on Riga Waffen SS March</h1>
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <span class="entry-date">13 March 2014</span> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" title="View all posts by Defending History">Defending History</a></span> </div>
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<!-- .entry-meta --> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Richard Howitt, British Labour Member of the European Parliament, and spokesperson for the European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee today issued the following text of his statement which will be read out in Riga this Sunday March 16th.</strong></span></div>
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Today brings the seventeenth annual march in Riga, Latvia glorifying Waffen SS forces from the Nazi era which brought death and destruction to our continent and which today’s European Union was supposed to consign to history.</div>
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I am pleased to hear that the Latvian Government has forbidden Ministers from attending the march this year, but condemn the Latvian High Court’s decision of 2013, forcing the Riga Mayor to apologise for all the years of trying to ban it.</div>
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Coming from Britain, I am saddened that the governing Conservative Party from my country chooses to ally itself in a common European Group with the Latvian “For Fatherland and Freedom Party,” whose Member of the European Parliament is on record as supporting this sickening celebration, even supporting its previous status as a public holiday in the country.</div>
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The party of Government of my country should not sit with a party which has proposed the Waffen SS troops be renamed “liberation fighters.”</div>
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They are a scar on my own country.</div>
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What they should remember is that almost all of Latvia’s 70,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.</div>
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Whether local boys were forced to don the SS uniforms or were eager volunteers, celebration of their actions not only insults the memory of the victims but also honours Nazism itself.</div>
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Today, the British Labour Party stands with all victims of the Second World War, all who condemn fascism, all who oppose antisemitism and other forms of racism, to express our horror at those who seek to rewrite history in order to justify those who would spread bitterness, hate and division in a new century.</div>
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This year sees the 100 years centenary since the beginning of the First World War, and people throughout Europe will come together to remember the horrors of both wars of the twentieth century and celebrate the fact fascism was defeated and not victorious.</div>
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When survivors of Nazi concentration camps in 1945 stood holding signs saying “never again,” they could not have foreseen what is happening today in Riga. These are the people we should be commemorating and this is the message we should remember.</div>
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country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the
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for dealing with the problems identified. In the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">report on Latvia </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">published on February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the
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authorities’ reaction in this connection. As concerns the first incident, every
year, on 16 March, a gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian
unit of the Waffen SS is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI
regrets that, in spring 2010, an administrative district court overruled a
decision of the Riga City Council 27 prohibiting this march. Moreover, ECRI is
concerned that the speaker of the Latvian Parliament allegedly publicly
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<em> English translation by Monica Lowenberg sent by German film maker Jürgen Hobrecht to the Latvian ambassador in Berlin.<br />
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Dear Mrs. Japina,<br />
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On the 25 May, 2013, I sent you my documentary, <i>“Wir haben es doch erlebt — Das Ghetto von Riga</i>“. On the 10 July, 2013, I went in person to the embassy, to personally give you the documentary; as you stated that it had not arrived on two occasions. As you were not available, an exchange took place on the sidewalk, in front of the embassy building.<br />
I had hoped to give you, as embassy representative, a film that is the first of its kind to tell, worldwide, the story of the Riga Ghetto. In addition, I had suggested that the film be shown as part of the program that celebrates, in 2014, with Riga as <em>Capital of European Culture</em>.<br />
Despite repeated telephone inquiries and letters I have to date not heard from you.<br />
I am not aware, if, as part of your diplomatic duties for your country, you have publicised the film or if you have forwarded it on to Riga. I do not know where you have placed the film or of any attempts made to screen the film this year.<br />
I would like to mention how truly astonished I am at the manner in which you have handled this matter. I would be grateful if you would now officially state whether there are any plans to screen the film in 2014 in Riga.<br />
Furthermore, I would like to know what the official opinion is regarding the planned SS legionnaires, so-called “veterans “march, scheduled for 16 of March 2014.<br />
Is it, incidentally, your opinion that such an event is compatible with Riga being European Capital of Culture?<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Jürgen Hobrecht<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Veteranen der
Waffen-SS ziehen durch Riga”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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paradieren in Riga”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Die
Zeit <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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Veteranen der Waffen-SS durch Riga”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Welt</span></i><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hatten nur die SS – und die Rote Armee”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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hatten nur die SS – und die Rote Armee"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jerusalem Post<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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anciens combattants des</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Waffen SS</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">défilent à</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Riga</span></em></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“МЕРОПРИЯТИЯ 16 МАРТА ВЫЗВАЛИ БОЛЬШОЙ ИНТЕРЕС
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СНОВА ИЗБИЛИ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-transform: uppercase;">”</span></span></h1>
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16 марта ожидается особая ситуация”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="RU">“</span><span lang="RU" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Кузинс:
если суд запретит 16 марта звукоусилители, привлечем хор”<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span></span><span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 марта Полиция безопасности ждет зарубежных "гостей"</span></span><span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/16-marta-policiya-bezopasnosti-zhdet-zarubezhnyh-gostej.d?id=44272967"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/16-marta-policiya-bezopasnosti-zhdet-zarubezhnyh-gostej.d?id=44272967</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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вспомнить павших 16 марта”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/marshi-pikety-potasovki-kak-v-latvii-otmechali-16-marta.d?id=43148536"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">Марши,
пикеты, потасовки: как в Латвии отмечали 16 марта</span></span></a></span>”<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">16 марта в фотографиях: флаги,
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“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Экс-премьер: министрам нечего делать у
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">ИТАР-ТАСС</span></i><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«МИД РФ о марше ветеранов СС
в Риге: поклонникам нацизма не место в цивилизованном мире»<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://itar-tass.com/politika/1050972"><span style="color: blue;">http://itar-tass.com/politika/1050972</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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с акциями протеста против шествия легионеров Waffen-SS в Риге»<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1050672"><span style="color: blue;">http://itar-tass.com/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1050672</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h1>
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<b><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Взгляд. Деловая газета.</span></i><span lang="RU" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">«Марш ветеранов «Ваффен СС» прошел в Риге»<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/16/677322.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/16/677322.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">РИА
«Новости»</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt; mso-outline-level: 1;">
<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">«МИД России считает позором шествие легионеров СС
в Риге»<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 17.85pt; mso-outline-level: 1;">
<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://ria.ru/world/20140316/999717449.html"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://ria.ru/world/20140316/999717449.html</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Семь
человек были задержаны во время шествия легионеров СС в Риге”</span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span></span><span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Более
тысячи человек приняли участие в шествии легионеров СС”</span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="color: black;">В Риге
состоялось шествие памяти латышских легионеров” </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://www.interfax.ru/world/364961"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://www.interfax.ru/world/364961</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ино</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">TV</span></i><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Власти Латвии мешают антифашистам протестовать
против «Ваффен-СС»”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><!--[endif]--><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Ритм
Евразии</span></i><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«Трудно быть антифашистом»<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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маршем по Риге”</span><span lang="RU" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="RU" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«Легионеры СС на грани паранойи»<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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Ваффен СС»<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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сражавшиеся за независимую Латвию, для других – приспешники Гитлера, на руках
которых кровь жертв рижского гетто…»</span></span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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приняли участие в прошедших в Риге мероприятиях 16 марта, который в республике
неофициально отмечают как день памяти латышского легиона «Ваффен СС».<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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march in memory of veterans who fought with the Nazis during WWII”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Latvians
honor Nazi allies from World War II”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Latvians hold march for
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: RU; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Latvians honor Nazi allies from World
War II” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Who Fought with Nazis Hold Annual March”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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honor Nazi allies from World War II”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Banalisation of butchery reaches a new low note in Latvia. Former member of the notorious Arajs commando Herbert Cukurs is glorified in latest show stopper . One can only assume that 'Romance in Rumbula', 'Singalong Viktor' and 'Reaching Fever Pitch' will become hot favourites soon. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsdwCXVJwUc" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsdwCXVJwUc</a><br />
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Riga, Capital of European Culture: Waffen SS, Stags and Silence?</h1>
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The UK’s home secretary Theresa May, the Hungarian Jobbik party, and Holocaust Memorial Day have all been in the press lately. Reading how the leader of pro-Nazi Jobbik party was, in the interests of free speech, allowed to hold his rally in Hyde Park, I have to question why Ms. May allowed this man entry into the UK and hadn’t called his racist attitudes, “unacceptable” as she had in the past with, “Every Muslim should be a terrorist” Zakir Naik. What had changed?<br />
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In the Capital of European Culture: Waffen SS Calendar (Riga 2014)</div>
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The Jobbik party is notorious for its antisemitic, anti-Roma, anti-immigrant views to the extent that in 2012 Marton Gyongyosi, Jobbik’s deputy leader, a man who in the same year was guest of honor of the Lithuanian Order and Justice Party’s president, Rolandas Paksas (a former president of Lithuania) <a href="http://www.hungarianambiance.com/2012/04/jobbik-representatives-were-guests-of.html">requested that residents of Jewish origin be listed for security</a>! However, one day before Holocaust Memorial Day the Jobbik party’s plethora of outrageous views and comments were not perceived as unacceptable enough to ban entry into the UK.<br />
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Could the Conservatives overall aim to win over BNP and UKIP voters, to be seen to be tough on immigrants have had anything to do with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/25/hungarian-gabor-vona-london-protesters-jobbik-roma-jews">the decision to allow Gabor Vona entry</a>? Unfortunately, the British conservatives have, under the leadership of David Cameron, developed in recent years a very special kind of blindness when it comes to right wing extremists from former Communist countries to the point that nothing is sacred when it comes to securing votes, not even the Holocaust one day before Holocaust Memorial Day. In response to <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/85902/the-little-european-problem-conservatives-would-prefer-forget">Martin Bright’s article</a> supporting my campaign against the annual glorification of the SS in Riga, the capital of Latvia (an EU, OSCE and NATO ally), Conservative MP Daniel Hannan probably won top spot for making the most glib comment of all time when <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/88135/eu-real-problem-not-latvia">he publicly defended</a>, in the <i>Jewish Chronicle </i>of all papers, the SS and those who commemorate its evil. He wrote:<br />
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Europe Minister David Lidington when asked to try to at least speak out with credibility, maintained that it (“it” being the condemnation of Hitlerist worship) is “not a matter in which the UK has any locus to become involved.”<br />
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In a similar vein, Eric Pickles and <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1002/the-photo-shoots-hague-would-rather-forget">William Hague</a> believe the Latvian SS were <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/eric-pickles-tories-latvia-nazi">only wearing Nazi uniforms and following orders</a>. Martin Callanan former Conservative chief whip in the European Parliament, who oddly (and admirably!) enough <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230">signed the Seventy Years Declaration</a> that opposes the Prague Declaration (a declaration that Baltic governments have on an industrial level been steamrolling through corridors of power since 2008 with the intent to equate Soviet crimes with Nazi crimes) very aggressively refused to sign the petition against the Latvian SS being annually honored each and every March 16 since 1998, on the pretext that the petition against the march and now signed by over 7,000 people worldwide is, “very unfortunate as it does not honor victims of the Genocide against the Jewish population” completely ignoring the ERCI’s <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf">recommendation of 21 Feb 2012</a>:<br />
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So, why such bafflingly contradictory behavior? The answer is simple: uncomfortable historical facts. The brutal mass murder of 95.6% of Latvian Jewry in 1941, the second worst percentage of Jewish citizens killed in the Holocaust but to date little known or reported, an atrocity committed by German Nazis and Latvians, many of whom would go on to join the Latvian SS in 1943, has over the years been repeatedly and conveniently forgotten and excused by Baltic PR teams and politicians when the issue of votes come into the equation. The most notable excuse banded around since the 1950s being one the Americans drew up to, in many respects, excuse their integration of a number of former Latvian SS into the CIA to help fight the cold war against Russia, “<i>The Baltic Waffen SS Units (Baltic Legions) are to be considered as separate and distinct in purpose.”</i> Why was the Latvian SS to be seen as separate? They were to be seen as separate as the Latvian SS per se had not as yet been formed when Latvian Jewry were murdered in 1941 and therefore could not be held account for the murders.<br />
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A morally reprehensible loophole that conveniently forgets that many of the Latvian men who brutally committed the mass murders of Jews in 1941, later joined the Latvian SS in 1943, forgetting that the Latvian SS 15th and 19th divisions fought for the most genocidal killing machine the world has ever known. Millions of people across the world lost their lives because of that regime. Whatever the reasons for conscription there should be no <em>honoring</em> of such men in the twenty-first century. That anyone has to spell this out shows to what extent certain politicians for their own political ends, and historians seeking trinkets and junkets, have lost their moral compass. Glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE capital which on 17 January 2014 became of all things cultural capital of Europe. Yes, you heard right. Cultural Capital of Europe! <br />
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Up until the Holocaust, Riga was a thriving hub for artists and musicians, composer Oscar Strok, violinist Sarah Rashin, the famous historian, Professor Simon Dubnow and even Wagner worked there. Due to its art nouveau architecture USA today readers named it Europe’s “prettiest city” but something the travel blogs won’t state is that only last November at a hockey match in Riga stadium, a Latvian state dance troupe took up the whole arena to perform <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1579/lartvian-state-dance-troupe-displays-nazi-swastika">a Swastika dance</a>. The excuse for such a manifestation was that the Swastika is apparently an ancient Baltic symbol… The Latvian side Dinamo Riga were fined by the Russians the equivalent of one million rubles ($30,300 dollars) but what has Cameron and other senior Tories and the EU for that matter said to oppose such a blatant, provocative honoring of Nazism in an EU country. Nothing. And then of course is Riga’s reputation as the stags capital of Europe, voted by UK readers of FHM Magazine already in 2006 as the number one stag party destination in Europe. In 2009 the special relationship between Great Britain and Latvia was firmly and formally cemented in 2009 when the Conservatives ditched their more conservative allies in Europe and looked instead to Latvia for a liaison. Forever keen to position Britain as hostile to European integration (to further European Union integration) the Conservatives looked for parties who don’t like Brussels, and ended up in the case of Latvia with Robert Zile a party with just one MP in the European Parliament who associate themselves with anti-Stalinism, anti–Sovietism but also the Waffen SS. The depth of devotion between Cameron and Latvia was further noted at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral last year when Latvian prime minister Valdis Dombrovskis was one of only four currently serving prime ministers to attend the funeral, a man whose colleague President Berzins stated to world press in 2012,<br />
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In 2013 when questioned by valiant conservative MP David Amess one of only five Conservative MPs including Bob Blackman, who have stood up against such blatant displays of Nazi nostalgia, Latvia’s Ambassador Stiprais in London stated that no Nazi symbols and uniforms can be seen at the march and therefore it is kosher or shall we say legit. Photo reportages of the march in 2013 proved Stiprais and Lidington, who supported him, wrong when a big fat smiling photo of Robert Ancans, Latvian SS Obersturmfuhrer, knights cross extraordinaire was placed at the monument of freedom and anti-fascists <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949">violently attacked by Latvian politicians</a> connected with Robert Zile and his British Conservative pals. Since Riga is the designated-by-the-EU Cultural Capital of Europe, the EU’s leaders might care to take note that one of the <a href="http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/exclusive/news/2014-01-17/141553">most popular selling local calendars of all time</a> is not one that takes pride in its living artists today, or being a member of the Euro since January 2014, or Jan Lipke, the incredible Latvian patriot who saved about fifty Jewish citizens from certain death in World War II.<br />
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No, it is a calendar that depicts the glories of the Latvian SS. Fortunately, the <a href="http://www.latvia.travel/en/article/riga-will-become-european-capital-culture-2014">Latvian tourist board web site</a> doesn’t offer the unsuspecting visitor an opportunity to purchase the calendar via paypal but rather in the first few lines states that to celebrate becoming cultural capital of Europe there will be in Riga “a human book chain transferring books from hand to hand, from the old National Library of Latvia Building to the new ‘Gaismas Pils’ (Palace of Light) National Library Building.” In the same paragraph there is a link to the Latvian Jewish community’s website that lists a remembrance service <a href="http://www.jews.lv/en">in Rumbula</a> but not a link to a more telling <a href="http://www.jews.lv/en/announcement/chairman-latvian-council-jewish-communities-arkady-suharenko">statement on the same site</a>:<br />
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So, what has happened that such huge contradictions are allowed to manifest themselves in an EU capital? The answer is really very simple. When an EU capital is not held to task for allowing such public demonstrations of fascism to go unnoticed and unchallenged, are allowed to enter the EU in 2004 in the first place without having fully internalized the concomitant values, by being given further credibility and legitimization by the British conservatives since 2009, are allowed to join the Euro in January 2014, are made cultural capital of Europe in 2014, are honored with the rotating presidency of the European Union in 2015, like Hungary in 2011 and Lithuanian in 2013, then such public displays of fascism and Holocaust downgrading become acceptable. One can only conclude that if a little nationalism tinged with a little fascism helps some forget their economic woes and helps keep an eye on Russia then so be it. And so a special kind of blindness develops on behalf of not just Latvians and Senior Tories but the world at large, a world that would rather see Latvia as an economic success story to make themselves feel better and once more act as if the Cold War had never ended. One would be excused for believing that it was the Latvian SS who liberated Auschwitz rather than the Soviet Army who sacrificed over twenty million of their men so that Europe could be free. As UK scholar <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/philip-pilkington-the-new-york-times-bizarre-and-misleading-praise-of-austerity-poster-child-latvia.html">Philip Pilkington wrote in January 2013</a> in response to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/europe/used-to-hardship-latvia-accepts-austerity-and-its-pain-eases.html?_r=0">gushing New York Times account</a> of Latvia’s austerity measures,<br />
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Despite being the eighteenth member to join the Euro in January 2014 and reducing unemployment from 19% in 2010 to 11.7% in 2014 the Latvian economy, as other commentators have mentioned still faces three main problems: a debt overhang, a declining and ageing population and a high level of unemployment due to a low rate of job creation. A substantial wage differential with Western Europe encouraged over 5% of young Latvians to emigrate and drift west. To lose over 5% of one’s young people is no success story. Cheap interest rates, supported by the peg and the prospect of Euro membership meant that Latvian households and corporates were able to get themselves heavily into debt. And debt in Euros (which is why the devaluation difficulty exists). Over 85% of Latvian mortgages are Euro denominated.<br />
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And in the midst of this economic turmoil, as in Greece, ultra-nationalism and the rise of the right has been allowed to flourish to enable forgetting about the real problems at hand. Simple economics at work? In little over a month on March 16, 2014, the Latvian SS will undoubtedly, with military precision, march down the center of Riga from Cathedral Square to the Monument of Freedom. The courageous mayor of Riga will be prosecuted if this year he attempts to ban the march, as he has, unsuccessfully, attempted in previous years. Thousands of young people will with blind adoration line the SS’ path with flowers, desecrate the wreath to the victims of Nazism and declare that the protesters are KGB agents. And what will the EU and senior British Tories once more do? probably turn a polite blind eye to such an abomination because it is more “diplomatic” and suits their own political games, but if they do then please excuse me from quoting Woody Allen when I think of them. The seemingly inexhaustible spate of literature on the Third Reich continues unabated with the soon to be published <em>Memoirs of Friedrich Schmeed</em>. Schmeed, the best-known barber in wartime Germany, provided tonsorial services for Hitler and many highly placed government and military officials. As was noted during the Nuremberg Trials, Schmeed not only seemed to be always at the right place at the right time but possessed “more than total recall,” and was thus uniquely qualified to write this incisive guide to innermost Nazi Germany. Following is a brief excerpt.<br />
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Solidarität mit Nazi-Opfern und Antifaschist_innen in Lettland</div>
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Moderation: <strong>Dr. Regina Girod</strong>, Bundessprecherin der VVN-BdA</div>
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Die beiden lettischen Antifaschisten berichten über die Vorgänge in Riga, ergänzt werden sie von persönlichen Eindrücken deutscher Teilnehmer_innen der Proteste vom Vorjahr. In einer Vorschau wird auch der im Juli stattfindende Waffen-SS-Aufmarsch in Estland (Sinimä) angesprochen.</div>
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Außerdem erörtern wir Möglichkeiten, die Proteste in diesem Jahr zu unterstützen.</div>
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Jedes Jahr wiederholen sich in den baltischen Staaten Lettland und Estland Aufmärsche ehemaliger baltischer Waffen-SS-Angehöriger und ihrer heutigen Sympathisant_innen.</div>
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Tausende Teilnehmer_innen stilisieren die früheren Kollaborateure der Deutschen zu „Freiheitskämpfern“ gegen die Sowjetunion und zu nationalen Helden. Die Umdeutung der Geschichte, die Gleichsetzung „Rot gleich Braun“ stößt im Baltikum auf breite gesellschaftliche Zustimmung. Dieser Geschichtsrevisionismus paart sich mit einem aggressiven völkischen Nationalismus, der viele russisch-stämmige Einwohner_innen der baltischen Staaten zu Bürger_innen zweiter Klasse macht. Wer gegen die Naziverherrlichung protestiert, gilt damit automatisch als „Agent Moskaus“, als jüdischer Störenfried oder als Nestbeschmutzer.</div>
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Die Internationale Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) ruft dazu auf, die Proteste gegen die Aufmärsche zur Verherrlichung der lettischen Waffen-SS in diesem Jahr mit internationalen Delegationen zu unterstützen. In Berlin mobilisieren die VVN-BdA und die DFG-VK dazu, am 16. März in Riga zu den lettischen Antifaschist_innen zu stoßen.</div>
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Die Veteranen und Sympathisant_innen der ehemaligen „Lettischen Legion“ ziehen jedes Jahr am 16. März durch die Innenstadt von Riga. Das ist der Jahrestag der ersten großen Schlacht, die die lettische Waffen-SS gegen die Rote Armee geführt hat.</div>
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Ziel des Umzugs ist das Freiheitsdenkmal. Dieses erinnert an den Unabhängigkeitskampf Lettlands nach 1918, das zuvor Teil des russischen Zarenreiches war. So wird eine historische Kontinuität konstruiert: Die Waffen-SS-Männer werden in den Kanon der nationalen Freiheitskämpfer aufgenommen, die – gegen die Russen! – für die nationale Unabhängigkeit gekämpft hätten.</div>
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Der aggressive Antisemitismus der Mitglieder dieser Truppe, die Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit, die von dieser Truppe begangen wurden, interessieren dabei nicht.</div>
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Im Jahr 2012 beteiligten sich rund 1500 Menschen, meist aus der Generation der Kinder und Enkel, an dem Aufmarsch, der von der Veteranenvereinigung, von einem nationalistischen Jugendverband und der Partei „Alles für Lettland“, organisiert wird. Sie ist momentan Teil der Regierungskoalition.</div>
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Die positive Erinnerung an die Waffen-SS ist in Lettland absolut salonfähig. Ihre Veteranen werden zu Vorträgen in Schulen eingeladen, das staatliche „Okkupationsmuseum“ stellt sie als „Unabhängigkeitskämpfer“ während des Zweiten Weltkrieges dar. Staatspräsident Andris Berzins sagte 2012, man solle sich vor den Waffen-SS-Männern verneigen- sie hätten schließlich „für ihr Vaterland“ gekämpft.</div>
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Angeführt wird der Aufmarsch von den wenigen noch lebenden Waffen-SS-Veteranen. Auf dem Freiheitsplatz durchschreiten sie ein Fahnenspalier des nationalistischen „Daugava“-Jugendverbandes. Vor dem Denkmal werden schließlich Blumen abgelegt. Ganz oben thront regelmäßig das Farbfoto eines SS-Mannes in voller Montur.</div>
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Es gibt in Riga seit Jahren Proteste gegen die alljährliche Gedenkveranstaltung an die lettischen Waffen-SS-Männer, die aber über wenige Dutzend Teilnehmer_innen nicht hinauskommen. Im vergangenen Jahr konnten sich die Aktivist_innen des Lettischen Antifaschistischen Komitees am Rand des Unabhängigkeitsplatzes versammeln und die Nazifreunde lautstark mit dem „Buchenwaldmarsch“ begrüßen. Über Lautsprecher und auf Plakaten wurde an die Verbrechen der Nazis erinnert.</div>
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Die Bewegung „Lettland ohne Nazismus“(Latvija bez Nacisma) hatte im vorigen Jahr Antifaschist_innen aus mehreren Ländern zu einer Konferenz eingeladen. An ihrem Tagungsort hatten sich ebenfalls Freunde der Waffen-SS versammelt, die den Antifaschist_innen vorwarfen, vom KGB bezahlt zu sein und russisch-imperiale Interessen zu vertreten. Vor dem Eintreffen des rechten Aufmarsches legten die Teilnehmer_innen der Konferenz einen Kranz zu Ehren der Opfer am Freiheitsdenkmal ab. Dieser Kranz wurde wenig später von Angehörigen des „Daugava“-Verbandes zerstört..</div>
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Die lettischen Antifaschist_innen bemühen sich seit Jahren um eine Internationalisierung der Proteste gegen das Waffen-SS- Gedenken. Diese Bemühungen wollen wir unterstützen. Wie genau die Proteste in diesem Jahr aussehen werden, steht noch nicht fest. Wir streben aber eine sichtbare Präsenz als internationale Delegation an, die der lettischen Öffentlichkeit vor Augen führen soll: Was da in Riga am 16. März geschieht, steht in Widerspruch zu den Lehren aus der Geschichte, in Widerspruch zur Demokratie und zur Freiheit und stößt in Europa auf die entschlossene Ablehnung all jener, die dankbar sind für die Befreiung Europas vom Nazifaschismus.</div>
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Im Aufruf der Internationalen Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) – Bund der Antifaschisten heißt es:</div>
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<em>Veteranen-Verbände der Waffen-SS und andere Neofaschisten führen seit vielen Jahren Aufmärsche und offene Veranstaltungen in Estland und Lettland durch … Diese Veranstaltungen bereiten den Boden dafür, dass zukünftig auch in anderen Ländern SS-Männer als „normale Soldaten“ oder gar als „Freiheitskämpfer“ gewürdigt werden können … Selbst kleinere international organisierte Demonstrationen oder Veranstaltungen im Baltikum wären eine große Hilfe für die dortigen Antifaschisten und würden im Bereich der EU mit Sicherheit viel Aufmerksamkeit erregen.“</em></div>
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16. März, Riga: Internationale Proteste gegen den Waffen-SS-Aufmarsch. Gegen Geschichtsrevisionismus und die Rehabilitierung des Naziterrors!</h4>
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Auf der Veranstaltung werden wir die Optionen vorstellen, gemeinsam mit einem gecharterten Reisebus oder individuell mit dem Flugzeug nach Riga zu reisen.</h4>
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Interessent_innen bitte melden bei:<a href="mailto:bundesbuero@vvn-bda.de"> bundesbuero@vvn-bda.de</a></div>
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<a href="http://worldwithoutnazism.org/">http://worldwithoutnazism.org/</a> (russisch/englisch)</div>
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<span class="userContent">1. February 5 2014 Latvian minister on regional policy Mr. Cilinskis announces he will be attending the march</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> 2. Despite problems in Ukraine 7 March 2014 the march is to go ahead<br /><br /><a href="http://www.romea.cz/en/news/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans-counter-protest-planned#.UyA3jPaiqbE.facebook" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.romea.cz/en/news/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans-counter-protest-planned#.UyA3jPaiqbE.facebook</a><br /><br /> Hope Not Hate 9 March 2014 'Riga permits march to honor SS veterans'<br /><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1773/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1773/riga-permits-march-to-honor-ss-veterans</a><br /><br /><br /> 3. However, by 11 March 2014 Latvian cabinet ministers are told not to attend...</span></span></div>
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Monica Lowenberg in dialogue with Latvia’s ambassador in London, March
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<i>'Latvia: A Personal March Through History </i>‘by Monica Lowenberg</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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SS commemoration in Riga, Latvia by Michael Goldfarb in Global Post 16
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eastern Europe’s long-buried truths</i>
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a complete list of world wide media covering the 2012 Latvian Waffen SS
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Jewish Refugees, UK), Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 by Monica Lowenberg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also published by Second Generation Network,
Voices<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105</span></a> by
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">On the Eve of Yom Hashoah Great Britain sinks into
littleness on the Holocaust</span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/on-the-eve-of-yom-hashoah-great-britain-sinks-into-littleness-on-the-holocaust/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/on-the-eve-of-yom-hashoah-great-britain-sinks-into-littleness-on-the-holocaust/</span></a>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Photoshoots Hague would rather forget</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1002/the-photo-shoots-hague-would-rather-forget"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1002/the-photo-shoots-hague-would-rather-forget</span></a>
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Mr Lidington.</span></b></em><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Opinion piece by Monica
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<span style="font-size: small;">I</span><span style="font-size: small;">t is with deep regret that my 90 year old father, Ernest Lowenberg, former Berlin ORT pupil and I write to you today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the 13 November 2013, as chief executive of British ORT, you invited my parents and me to a concert that British ORT will be co-hosting with Westminster Synagogue and the Lithuanian Embassy on Monday 2 December 2013, as part of a two-day “Litvak symposium” at Westminster Synagogue. Shockingly, this “Litvak symposium” features a professor from Kaunas who thinks that glorifying his country’s 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister who helped send his city’s Jews to their deaths constitutes “the drama of Lithuanian history” and complained that timid college administrators are “frightened that they were going to get hit over the head with a club by the Jews.” (</span><a href="http://www.lrytas.lt/-13375743731337521648-e-aleksandravi%C4%8Dius-perlaidodami-j-brazait%C4%AF-nor%C4%97jome-parodyti-kad-lietuvi%C5%B3-drama-dar-nesibaig%C4%97.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">full text</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/English-translation-of-21-May-2012-interview-with-Prof-Egidijus-Aleksandravicius-of-VMU.pdf"><span style="font-size: small;">English translation</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; reply </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/chersonski-replies-to-aleksandravicius-on-the-2012-kaunas-reburial-of-the-1941-nazi-puppet-prime-minister/60292#more-60292"><span style="font-size: small;">by the Lithuanian Jewish community’s Milan Chersonski</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">). Another “star” of this “Litvak symposium” is the editor of the <em>Lithuania Tribune</em>, <em> </em>a major mouthpiece for state Holocaust obfuscation, whose editor’s democratic values </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/beating-a-dead-horse-lithuanians-trying-to-measure-up-in-the-post-holocaust-world/56568"><span style="font-size: small;">have not extended to publishing replies in his tribune</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> (no pun intended). But he is happy to publish the </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/one-sided-coverage-in-the-lithuania-tribune/51405"><span style="font-size: small;">state commission’s attacks on a Vilna Holocaust survivor</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> as purported fact (background </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/red-brown-commission-launches-new-campaign-against-holocaust-survivors-calls-vilna-ghetto-survivor-prof-pinchos-fridberg-a-liar/49791"><span style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> and </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/chronology-of-a-debate"><span style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">). Is this <em>really </em>the kind of event British ORT and the Westminster Synagogue wish to be associated with?</span><em></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have copied Westminster Synagogue’s Rabbi Thomas Salamon into this mail, as well as your predecessor Robert Singer with whom over the years we have been in touch, as my parents and I feel it is important that they too are aware of where the Lowenberg family stands in this matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My parents and I are sadly obliged to decline your invitation as we refuse to have our names associated with a government that we have repeatedly called upon to change certain policies, including their ongoing sanitization and glorification of Holocaust collaborators as well as direct killers, a government that invests huge resources, despite trying economic times, in revising history to export a false equivalence of Nazi and Soviet crimes in an attempt to downgrade the Holocaust, which in Lithuania claimed 96.4% of the Jewish population, the highest percentage in all Holocaust-era Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have, as you know, personally informed British ORT with full documentary evidence. It is therefore particularly disturbing and personally upsetting that despite having this information, British ORT should actively go out of its way, under your leadership, to continue co-hosting an event with the Lithuanian Embassy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In my last email to you of 14 November 2013, further to your telephone call, I suggested that if British ORT could not back out of the event that you allow myself and my father to </span><a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/abandon-glorification-of-local-holocaust-perpetrators-and-defamation-of-holocaust-survivors-who-fought-against-hitler"><span style="font-size: small;">read out the petition at the commencement of the concert to HE Ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, Lithuanian ambassador to the UK. This would take under five minutes to read out at the event. What on earth is anyone afraid of in our free and democratic UK?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am aware that Ronnie Wolf (daughter of former ORT boy Gerhart Wolf, many of whose family were also brutally murdered in Lithuania and Latvia) has also contacted you on the same matter. We have not heard from you and therefore we can only conclude that our request has been denied and that you will continue with this shameful concert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As you are aware, the Lithuanian government have been pursuing a very active strategy that as the </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/94132/lithuanian-holocaust-event-duplicitous%E2%80%99"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Jewish Chronicle</em> in December 2012</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> noted, at a PR event with UCL and then at Jewish Book Week in February 2013 is clearly “duplicitous” and is part of a campaign of Holocaust revisionism. John Mann MP has referred to what is going on as an </span><a href="http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/10/daily-mail-disloyal-jews/"><span style="font-size: small;">“industrial rewriting of history in Eastern Europe to excuse mass murders carried out on behalf of the Nazis.”</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the one hand we have a government who at these “Jewish events” shows a face that is open and friendly to a dialogue with, in particular, Holocaust survivors and their families, (but not I might add when they arrive on their doorstep and deliver petitions) yet at home, in Lithuania, </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-court-approves-display-of-swastikas-in-public/389"><span style="font-size: small;">legalizes swastikas</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; allows for </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/neo-nazi-and-pro-fascist-marches"><span style="font-size: small;">Nazi marches to take place on Independence days in the very center of the nation’s capital and second city</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, and then names the youth who participate in such events as being </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-parliament-honors-organizers-of-neo-nazi-march-in-central-vilnius/51141"><span style="font-size: small;">“patriotic”</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; criminalizes Holocaust survivors such as </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/yitzhak-arad-on-the-holocaust-in-lithuania-and-its-obfuscation-in-lithuanian-sources/46252"><span style="font-size: small;">Yitzhak Arad</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, former director of Yad Vashem; and </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/memorials-to-holocaust-collaborators-in-public-spaces-and-state-sponsored-institutions-in-lithuania"><span style="font-size: small;">glorifies perpetrators</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> amongst many other actions that call out for dignified protest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tragically, it is becoming clear that many of these issues have been long-standing and are only intensifying as time goes by with </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/leonidas-donskis"><span style="font-size: small;">Prof. Leonidas Donskis</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> having been one of the very few voices, among elected officials from Lithuania who has truly and bravely spoken out against these things, a man who when I questioned him last year on whether the statements about the Lithuanian government were incorrect he responded in an email by saying I was not incorrect but “99% correct.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I can therefore only conclude, as many others have, that the Lithuanian government are pursuing a very active strategy which is in my opinion clearly duplicitous. Glittering events, conferences such as those </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/memorials-to-holocaust-collaborators-in-public-spaces-and-state-sponsored-institutions-in-lithuania"><span style="font-size: small;">organized at UCL</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, book launches at Jewish Book Week, art exhibitions, concerts with British ORT are simply foils to a much larger strategy, a strategy that deliberately uses neo-Nazi marches on Independence Day (what a contradiction in terms if ever there was one) as useful vehicles to drum up nationalistic feeling. Clearly the marches are “useful” or by now the Lithuanian government would have disallowed them in the capital on Independence Day. The government’s campaign of Holocaust distortion, obfuscation includes the infamous </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/prague-declaration/opposition"><span style="font-size: small;">Prague Declaration of 2008</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> which is the “bible” of the “Double Genocide” movement. A 2010 law passed by Lithuania’s parliament and signed by her president </span><a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/red-brown-bill-with-two-years-of-jailtime-for-disagreeing-with-governments-position-is-signed-into-law/843"><span style="font-size: small;">threatens up to two years’ imprisonment</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> to those who would in effect deny the “Double Genocide” evaluation of twentieth century history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As the eminent historian Professor Robert Wistrich </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/How-not-to-fight-anti-Semitism-313906"><span style="font-size: small;">wrote in an article this year in the <em>Jerusalem Post</em></span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, in response to a global forum on antisemitism:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Lithuania, however, is a far worse case. For the past two decades, it has consistently omitted or minimized the massive scale of the nation’s complicity in the Holocaust, which greatly contributed to the barbaric slaughter of 95 percent of Lithuania’s 200,000 Jews 70 years ago. Rather than honestly confront this appalling record, the Lithuanian government has continuously stressed the Soviet “genocide” of Lithuanians, even insinuating that Jews were involved in these Communist war crimes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As I stated to you in our telephone conversation, for the purpose of historic truth and in the case of British ORT to preserve the dignity and memory of Colonel Levey and the other brave ORT personalities who literally risked their lives to save others, it is absolutely essential that British ORT does not allow its good name to be abused and be associated with the Lithuanian government. It is essential that British ORT does not host this concert with the Lithuanian government.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/december-2012-london-conference-and-protest-box-coverage-to-24-dec/47637"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, former director of the Board of Deputies, noted when he was roped into attending the shameful UCL event, a previous Lithuanian government PR stunt in December 2012, what is said at these events is forgotten within a couple of days, if not hours, but the publicity which has the Lithuanian government’s name and logo of a proud knight on a horse on it, is for posterity, forever linked with the names of eminent and credible individuals and bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In years to co</span><span style="font-size: small;">me, as the Lithuanian PR team continues to happily steamroll through the history books and the Jewish community, how will the everyday man on the street come to know the true history of Lithuania and the Baltics and what it is doing today when British ORT and Westminster Synagogue and other organisations link arms with the very government who are hell bent on distorting that history? I am aware that ORT has schools in Lithuania and receives funding from the Lithuanian government, as I am sure many schools in Lithuania receive funding from that government but not all schools run functions with the government in London <em>today </em>in efforts to cover for duplicitous policy. This is something that does not need to occur to maintain relations. British ORT has survived until now not running functions with the Lithuanian Embassy. Do you not think it is suspicious if not downright malevolent that out of all the hundred odd Jewish organisations in the UK the Lithuanian ambassador to London could target to run an event with this year, it should be the only one that my soon to be 91 year old father is deeply connected with? This is an act that is as suspicious as the invitation Second Generation Network received last year to co-host an event with the same embassy at Jewish Book Week last February 2013, an invitation the Second Generation Network declined when they realized the game the Lithuanian PR team were playing with them (Second Generation Network being the only Jewish organisation I belong to). These incidences are not coincidences but deliberate attempts of the Lithuanian embassy to undermine and silence the voices of those who contest their government’s despicable actions that have taken place not thirty years ago, not twenty, not even ten but — today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The concert British ORT is involved in and hosting coincides, whether you are aware of this or not, with Lithuania’s presidency of the European Union Council and it is in the interest of the Lithuanian government to be seen to be co-hosting an event with British ORT. As the documentary maker and author of ”Tell Me No Lies” John Pilger has noted when investigating the propaganda techniques of various governments today, the Lithuanian government’s involvement in this concert demonstrates only one thing, how important PR is to that government and being associated with as many important names as possible to give them credibility at a time when they least deserve it on Jewish issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In view of the facts mentioned and because my parents and I recognize how important it is for anyone who truly cares about historic truth, justice and the prevention of far-right extremism currently sweeping Europe for each of us, where and when we can, challenge the Lithuanian government and their actions that happen and escalate today and because it is evident that under your leadership British ORT does not share this concern, it is with sincere regret that we need to inform you and make public that the Lowenberg family severs all ties with British ORT and do not permit British ORT to use any information, photographs, articles I have written in English and German on ORT, books concerning our family in any publicity you may choose to create for print or web publications. In some respects we are writing ourselves out of your history, as the history you will now be involved in is one that is based in lies of a heinous nature that defeat description.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is how strongly we feel about the association you have deliberately nurtured that we are prepared to sever a <em>life-long</em> commitment with the organization that saved my father’s life. Our gratitude will forever lie with Colonel Levey and the brave ORT people who literally risked their lives so that we can live today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Monica Low</span><span style="font-size: small;">enberg</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Gali Bartal, British ORT</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Robert Singer, World Jewish Congress</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Rabbi Thomas Salamon, Westminster Synagogue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Rabbi Barry Marcus, Central Synagogue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Dr Lionel Kopelowitz, former director of the Jewish Board of Deputies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Dr Efraim Zuroff, Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Israel</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Professor Danny Ben-Moshe, Deakin University, Melbourne</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Professor Dovid Katz, Defending History</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Graeme Atkinson, International Editor, Hope Not Hate</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">John Mann MP</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Ronnie Wolf</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Former Berlin ORT boys</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">PS I would also like to draw to your attention three petitions that will remain open:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. To mark progress across an array of issues the Lithuanian government could easily make progress on.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">LITVAK SYMPOSIUM IN LONDON 1-2 DECEMBER 2013</span></strong><br />
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<strong>Abandon defamation of Holocaust survivors and glorification of Holocaust perpetrators</strong></div>
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It is no surprise that over 125 years their impact upon Jewish history, culture
and identity remains as rich as it was in the shtetls of old. The two-day
symposium, organised by the Lithuanian Embassy in the United Kingdom in tandem
with the heritage partners across Britain, seeks to help genealogists, local
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Venue: Lithuanian Embassy, 2 Bessborough Gardens, London, SW1V 2JE</span></span></div>
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14:00 Welcome by: Mr Šarūnas Birutis, Minister of Culture of the Republic of
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Mrs Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania</span></span></div>
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Mr Vivian Wineman, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews</span></span></div>
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Moderator: Mr Ruslanas Iržikevičius, Editor-in-Chief, The Lithuania Tribune</span></span></div>
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14:15 Prof Egidijus Aleksandravičius, Vytautas Magnus University</span></span></div>
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Lithuanian Diaspora: Forgotten Pages of the Story?</span></span></div>
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14:30 Dr Nicholas J Evans, University of Hull: </span></span></div>
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The Social, Cultural and Political Impact of the Litvak During the Age of the
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15:15 Prof Michael Berkowitz, University College London: </span></span></div>
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Genealogically-informed Scholarship: Litvak Strains in Holocaust and Jewish
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Venue: London Metropolitan Archives, Huntley Room, 40 Northampton Road,
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14:00 Introduction: Dr. Nicholas J Evans, University of Hull</span></span></div>
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14.05 Ms Galina Baranova, Lithuanian State Archives</span></span></div>
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A Selected Overview of Documents in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives
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15:00 Ms Lorna Kay, Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (Manchester)</span></span></div>
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Documenting Litvak Migration in the North of England</span></span></div>
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15.25 Ms Charlotte Scott, London Metropolitan Archives</span></span></div>
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Aliens to Citizens: Collections at the London Metropolitan Archives and What
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CONCERT</span></span></div>
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Monday, 2 December, 2013, 7:00 pm Reception, 7:45 pm </span></span></div>
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Venue: Westminster Synagogue, Kent House, Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge,
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A concert of Jewish Songs and Music with the Lithuanian singer Liora
Grodnikaitė, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by pianist Darius Mažintas and
accordionist Martynas Levickis.</span></span></div>
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The event is free of charge; donations for the ORT projects in Lithuania are
gratefully accepted (ORT is the world's largest Jewish education and vocational
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<strong>COMMENT by Fabio Perselli posted on the eventot site</strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";"><a href="http://eventot.com/the-litvak-days-2013-the-lithuanian-jews-in-anglo-jewish-history-culture-and-identity/2552656" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">http://eventot.com/the-litvak-<wbr></wbr>days-2013-the-lithuanian-jews-<wbr></wbr>in-anglo-jewish-history-<wbr></wbr>culture-and-identity/2552656</span></a></span></div>
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For British ORT and the Westminster Synagogue to co-host a cultural event with the Lithuanian Embassy in London is either spectacularly naive or brazenly provocative. <br />
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It is with sadness and alarm that I have been following Lithuania's enthusiasm for revising history in recent times: Lithuania – now an EU and Nato state holding the presidency, no less, of the European Council – was among the first in line when Hitler stormed eastwards in his Operation Barbarossa. <br />
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Just to remind ourselves: between June 25 and 27 1941, in Kaunas alone, Lithuanian nationalists (mainly volunteers) were responsible, along with the Wehrmacht, for the systematic culling of some 60-70,000 Jews. In three days. And that was just the prelude. Until then Vilnius had been celebrated as the "Jerusalem of Lithuania", a nation with a quarter of a million Jew...s forming a cornerstone of a commercially thriving and culturally rich corner of Europe. The Nazis murdered 96.4% of them, the highest proportion of ethnic annihilation they managed anywhere – a feat they could never have dreamed of achieving without such staunchly loyal collaborators. Lithuania's Jewish community now barely represents 0.1% of the country's 3.3 million.<br />
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These nationalist "heroes", so keen to fight the Russians alongside the Nazis that they would go to any length to impress, are the very figures Lithuania now sees fit to rehabilitate and salute through memorials and marches, especially on the 16th of February – Lithuanian National Day. <br />
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It's not even a case of "Forgive and Forget" – it's more a policy of "Forgive and Glorify".<br />
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The Litvat Days 2013, my gut instinct tells me, are a cynical PR attempt on the part of the Lithuanian authorities to appear cuddly and inclusive. Nothing new there. But for ORT and the WS to be led down the garden path in this way? – I am speechless. And I read with interest – and regret – that even one of ORT's historic figureheads, Holocaust survivor Ernest Lowenberg, has decided to do the dignified thing and withdraw his support for ORT after many decades. <br />
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Shame.<br />
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<span class="il">Fabio</span> Perselli,<br />
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In the meantime it will be of interest to readers to know that only TEN days ago a Latvian state dance troupe displayed a very large swastika on 17 November 2013 in Riga stadium, see article in Hope Not Hate 24.11.2013<div>
<a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1579/lartvian-state-dance-troupe-displays-nazi-swastika" target="_blank">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>international/article/1579/<wbr></wbr>lartvian-state-dance-troupe-<wbr></wbr>displays-nazi-swastika</a></div>
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One has to now question whether to celebrate being European capital for culture in 2014, in little over a month, the Latvian government will be endorsing more of this blatant fascist behaviour in an EU, NATO,OSCE country?<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And on Sunday 22 December from 10.40am-1.00pm as part of the Limmud conference at Warwick University, Monica Lowenberg and Prof Danny Ben-Moshe will be speaking</span></strong> <br />
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<strong></strong> Monica Lowenberg discusses her campaign against state glorification of Latvian SS veterans in Latvia today, followed by a screening of the documentary 'Rewriting History' which examines a new form of Holocaust revisionism in Lithuania, with the equating of Nazi and Soviet crimes. This will be followed by a Q&A with the film's director, Danny Ben-Moshe, via Skype. </div>
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Danny Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the film-maker of 'Rewriting History', which explores the banalisation of the Holocaust in Lithuanian today and its creeping effect on the EU, too.</div>
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Since initiating in 2012 the petition 'Stop the 16 March marches and Latvians revising history', Monica has written prolifically on the banalisation of the Holocaust taking place in the EU today and has been widely published in the UK and abroad. Monica is London correspondent for <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">defendinghistory.com</span></a>.</div>
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Nazi Nostalgia</span></b><br />
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Monica Lowenberg<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Now, Woody Allen isn’t to everyone’s taste
but every so often he does manage to come out with a golden nugget that makes
you roar in the aisles if not chuckle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In his film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Midnight in Paris</i>
there is one such nugget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When speaking
about which era they would most like to live in, the central character says in a
dead pan voice, ‘I am a little nostalgic about </span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">La Belle Époque,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">
sans tuberculosis.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">La Belle Époque, the ‘beautiful era’ a
period in French history starting in 1890 and ending when World War 1 began,
when peace and prosperity in Paris allowed the arts to flourish and Zola,
Picasso and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gauguin, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>amongst other greats, met their friends for un
cafe in Maxims, or so we believe. However, on scratching the surface, we find
the era was not so belle. Time and the desire to forget trauma have a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>curious way of making us distort facts and see
only what we want to see, unless one reads Zola’s ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">J’accuse</i>’ one would forget the Dreyfuss affair that highlighted
French anti-Semitism during the Belle Époque, one would forget government
corruption and one would forget urban poverty riddled with tuberculosis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Nostalgia
is a dangerous thing as often it is wrapped in illusions, illusions that feel
more comfortable to deal with than reality. Without first hand witnesses on
hand it is easy to discard historical facts, primary and secondary sources if
one so chooses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also easy to even
distort facts particularly if one has the backing of the powers that be, as
Milan Kundera so clearly pointed out, <span style="color: #666666;">"</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The struggle of man against power</i>,"
he wrote, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"is the struggle of memory
against forgetting<span style="color: #666666;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">And so
in view of these facts, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when I tell you
that<span style="color: #666666;"> </span>since 1998 on the 16<sup>th </sup>of
March each and every year, in the very centre of Riga, Latvia, a member of the
EU since 2004, a NATO and OSCE country, marches have been regularly held to
praise the ‘heroism’ of the former Latvian Legion, i.e.Waffen SS veterans in
their combat against the allies during the Second World War and that each year
these events are receiving tacit (and sometimes very explicit and public)
support from state authorities, this year from the president himself who stated
the Latvian SS are not criminals but should be ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bowed down to’</i> , you are perhaps not surprised?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps, it will also not surprise you that
our very own British conservatives, the presumed heirs of Churchill, perhaps as
an antidote to the French revolution, perhaps as a summer Valentine’s day,
joined up forces on the 14 July 2009 with Robert Zile, a Latvian MEP whose
associations support Nazi marches?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Of
course marches take place all the time and why should one get upset about a few
SS men being heralded as heroes and offered flowers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the Latvian ambassador wrote to me, when
February this year I asked him to sign the petition I had set up against the 16
March marches in Latvia with the support of Dr Barry Gardiner (Labour MP) and
Bob Blackman (Conservative MP), ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There
are no war crimes attributed to the Latvian units of the Waffen SS which was
formed in 1943. Members of the notorious Arajs Komando constituted less than 1%
of those enlisted and in most cases they were duly prosecuted after World War
II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the above mentioned was
recognised by western allied authorities, including the UK government, when admitting
former legionnaires to their territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a twist of irony, some were even enlisted by the US army to guard
Nazi war criminals at the Nurnberg Tribunal...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In light of the aforementioned I cannot see how your petition would help
in bringing justice to the victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity,
including the Holocaust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the contrary,
it would simply replicate some of the old but recently reheated Soviet
propaganda about ‘those Fascist Latvians’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can only regret that your research into the history of the Latvian
legion was limited to communicating with Mr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Feigmanis</i> (sic Mr Feigmanis is actually a historian and has a PhD) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and some left wing politicians in
Latvia’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Both sides of my polite
debate with the Latvian ambassador are reproduced in full by <i>DefendingHistory.com
</i>at: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025">http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Curiously
enough, on the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very same day and within a
few hours of receiving this email from the Latvian ambassador, Mr Martin
Callanan, the chief whip, at the time, of the conservatives in the European
Parliament, also wrote to me expressing very similar sentiments , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">‘It is very unfortunate that your purpose
does not seem to be to clarify the historical facts about the Latvian Legion or
to honour victims of the Genocide against the Jewish population, which is why I
cannot sign your petition</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few hours
after sending this email to myself Mr Callanan publicly announced that he would
be leaving his post as conservative chief whip,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<em><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"It has been
a privilege to serve as Leader of Conservative MEPs for the last 16 months. It
has been a tumultuous time for the EU and a fascinating time to lead the
delegation. I am proud of the successes that Conservative MEPs are achieving
and the hard work that we put in to defend the national interest. I would love
to stay on but my commitment as the newly-elected chairman of our wider
European grouping requires my full-time dedication. It was an enormous
privilege to have been elected leader of the ECR last December’</span></em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/03/under-martin-callanans-leadership-the-gap-between-the-tory-grassroots-and-conmeps-was-never-narrower.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/03/under-martin-callanans-leadership-the-gap-between-the-tory-grassroots-and-conmeps-was-never-narrower.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">So,
who is telling stories here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it is
time to get a few facts straight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It is a sad and important fact to remember
that a substantial number of the same Latvian Waffen SS (the “legionnaires”)
had, prior to joining the Latvian SS legion, been members of the worst Jew
killing machine the world has ever known, killing with the Nazis in the
summer-autumn of 1941 some<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>75, 000
Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To honour such men, no matter how
many were involved, is a travesty of justice. The legionnaires who were
mobilised into the Latvian Legion, against their free will, are in some
respects victims but as the video clips of this year’s march which I protested
at (see links below) reveal, their descendants do not perceive them as such as
they desecrated the wreath to the victims of Nazism and hissed anti-Semitic
statements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Aside from any EU regulations that
strictly forbid days that commemorate and glorify Nazism, (see <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: blue;">Report on
Latvia</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i>by the ECRI</i> (<i>European
Commission Against Racism and Intolerance published 21 February
2012)</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">for
let us not forget Latvia is since 2004 a member of the EU, NATO and OSCE ,
apologists and supporters of the march would be wise, on seeing the You tube
clips and the international petition site that I set up in January 2012 against
the SS marches <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></a>
littered with anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophobic sentiments, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to concede <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that days that commemorate Nazism and any
associations with Nazism will simultaneously generate anti-Semitic, homophobic
and xenophobic sentiments. All the flowers in the world will not dismiss this
and the above mentioned tragic facts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">As Dr Efraim Zuroff stated in The Guardian
already in 2009 <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing</span></a> ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The results speak for themselves. Although
there were numerous Nazi war criminals who could still be brought to trial, not
a single one was ever punished in the Baltics, which had the worst record of
local collaboration, and only two have been punished in democratic Eastern
Europe. Although various leaders issued public apologies (usually in Israel,
almost never at home), they failed to deliver in terms of prosecution,
restitution, education and documentation. Even worse, Holocaust-related issues
became the main cause of renewed local anti-Semitism, which threatened the
minuscule remnant Jewish communities in these countries. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">For
some reason, these issues, which should have been highly significant in
determining the candidacy of these countries for European Union and NATO
membership, were apparently not taken into account. Suddenly, these countries
have the legitimacy of those memberships without having fully internalised the
concomitant values. Miliband is correct in pointing out the obvious flaws of
the Conservatives' new allies. But they are only the tip of the eastern
European right wing, which is determined to rewrite the history of the Second
World War in a way that no self-respecting European should accept. By joining
forces with parties such as Fatherland and Freedom and Law and Justice, the
Conservatives are granting important legitimacy to a false narrative that seeks
to whitewash war crimes and erase the heroic victory of those who saved the
world from Hitler and the Nazis.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Latvian
nationalists and apologists who argue that the legionnaires should be seen as
distinct from the German SS, as one they were acquitted of crimes by the
American courts in the 1950’s and two they guarded at the Nurnberg trials,
forget two very important points: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000033; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">95.6% of Latvia's pre-war Jewish population
were murdered in 1941 and 1942 by German Nazis and Latvian Arajs commandos
and auxiliary police, many of whom subsequently, in 1943 and 1944 freely
joined the Latvian SS Legion,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
15th and 19th divisions, the 15<sup>th</sup> becoming the most decorated
out of all SS divisions. It is true that the Latvian Legion per se did not
murder, virtually all of their Latvian compatriots; who happened to be
Jewish, but a substantial number of them prior to joining the legion had
been mass murderers of the worst kind. (The main core of the Waffen SS
legion Lettland was created in 1943 from 16 battalions of Latvian police
which in 1941-1942 participated in the Holocaust in not only Latvia but
also Russia, Belorussia and in the executions in the Warsaw ghetto.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #000033; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With regards to the Latvian Legion guarding at
the Nurnberg trials the reality is that only a third of them did so, in
the exterior ring not because they were innocent of crimes but because
they spoke good German!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other rings
were composed of Americans, allied troops and police.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One should also question the following,
Ivan Demyanyuk, also like the Latvian legionnaires, worked for the
Americans immediately after the war, does this mean he is not a criminal? <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ol>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Other facts
to consider are the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The legionnaires participated in the defense
of the Reich’s Chancellery in Berlin in April-May 1945, right next to Hitler
defending him from Soviet attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now,
if that is not collaboration what is?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2. The Legion
fought under the Nazi high command for a victory of the Third Reich. They do
not deserve to be honoured for fighting for a victory of the most genocidal
regime in human history. Ironically, such a victory would have been a disaster
for Latvia since the Nazis had no intention or plan to grant Latvia independence.
Historians know very well of the Nazis’ plans to do away with the Latvian
(among other Baltic) peoples after the planned-for victory. There would have <i>been
no Latvia</i> to become independent in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3. About
one-third of those who served in the Legion were volunteers, many of them those
who had served in Latvian Security Police units which had actively participated
in the mass murder of Jews in Latvia and in Belarus, such as the infamous Arajs
Commando mass murder squad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4. When
Latvian SS killed Soviet soldiers they in turn allowed Nazis on the western
front to kill more British and American soldiers and in turn allowed Auschwitz
and other concentration camps to continue their heinous crimes against
humanity. During the years of the Latvian Holocaust, the Soviet Union was in
alliance with Great Britain, the United States and other Western democracies,
whose ranks Latvia has now joined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5. Democratic
Latvia should not glorify those willing to give up their lives for a victory of
the Third Reich. The Latvian Righteous Gentiles would make much better role
models for today’s young people in Latvia and for future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6. The
ultranationalists who support the march are the ones who are seeking to rewrite
the historic narrative of the Holocaust in Latvia in order to hide or downgrade
the crimes of local Nazi collaborators and promote the canard of equivalency
between Communist and Nazi crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7. Ceremonies in churches and cemeteries are also forms of honouring the
deceased (whether they deserve it or not). Witness the masses held in Zagreb
and Split, Croatia, last December in honour of the Croatian mass murderer and
leader of the Ustashe Ante Pavelic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p> Other articles on the Conservatives unsavoury allies, written already in 2009</h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em>I knew the day of Holocaust 'debate' would come. Just not in my lifetime</em></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><time datetime="2009-10-20T20:30BST" itemprop="datePublished" pubdate=""><em><strong>See also</strong> </em><br />
►Dovid Katz <a href="http://washingtonjewishweek.com/print.asp?ArticleID=12036&SectionID=31&SubSectionID=49"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jewish Week</span></a> (30 Dec 2009)<br />►David Hirsh <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137610.html"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in Haaretz</span></a> (25 Dec 2009)<br />►Efraim Zuroff <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364476536&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jerusalem Post</span></a> (23 Dec 2009)<br />►Toby Axelrod <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/20/1009819/controversy-erupts-over-holocaust-revisionism-in-e-europe"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on JTA</span></a> (20 Dec 2009)<br />►Benny Weinthal <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260930892662&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jerusalem Post</span></a> (17 Dec 2009)<br />►Izi Leibler <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260930882100&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jerusalem Post</span></a> (16 Dec 2009)<br />►Dovid Katz and Clemens Heni <a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009Dec4KatzAndHeniOnPragueDecl.pdf"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the AJ</span></a> (4 Dec 2009)<br />►Dovid Katz <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/22477/tories-must-reject-double-genocide-proponents"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jewish Chronicle</span></a> (30 Nov 2009)<br />►Tim Whewell <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/30/antisemitism-poland-michal-kaminski"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Guardian</span></a> (30 Nov 2009)<br />►Daiva Repečkaitė <a href="http://wonderland.cafebabel.com/en/post/2009/11/14/Delfi-s-McCarthyism-continues"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on Wonderland</span></a> (14 Nov 2009)<br />►Mehdi Hasan <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/11/european-latvia-party"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in New Statesman</span></a> (1 Nov 2009)<br />►Dovid Katz <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/1031/1224257766699.html"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Irish Times</span></a> (31 Oct 2009)<br />►John Mann MP (UK) <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/21392/europe-must-focus-baltic-hate"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Jewish Chronicle</span></a> (29 Oct 2009)<br />►Daiva Repečkaitė <a href="http://wonderland.cafebabel.com/en/post/2009/10/28/Portal-manipulates-information-about-Holocaust-survivor"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on Wonderland</span></a> (28 Oct 2009)<br />►Clemens Heni <a href="http://clemensheni.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/clemens-heni-prague-declaration-antisemitism-holocaust.pdf"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on WPK</span></a> (26 Oct 2009)<br />►Jonathan Freedland <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/conservatives-european-allies-holocaust-deniers"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Guardian</span></a> (20 Oct 2009)<br />►Shimon Samuels <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441467&ct=7548759"><span style="color: #0062a0;">at OSCE</span></a> (5 Oct 2009)<br />►Paul Hockenos <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/216614"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in Newsweek</span></a> (2 Oct 2009)<br />►Efraim Zuroff in the Guardian (28 Sept 2009)<br />►Seumas Milne <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-soviet-pact"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Guardian</span></a> (9 Sept 2009)<br />►Dovid Katz <a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.pdf"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on Three Definitions</span></a> (Sept 2009)<br />
►Jonathan Steele <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/19/eu-parliament-soviet-nazi-history"><span style="color: #0062a0;">in the Guardian</span></a> (19 Aug 2009)<br />
►Leonidas Donskis <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_32-21.htm"><span style="color: #0062a0;">on Europeanvoice.com</span></a> (24 July 2009</time></span><br />
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suffered under various occupations to be heard, it is historically false and
morally reprehensible at best to:</span></span></div>
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an argument where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>collaborators are
likened to the victims they<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">willingly
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the topic is thousands of "nationalist heroes" who did the actual
KILLING of an ethnic minority in their midst --- all the men, women and
children of that minority --- for then the current campaign of double-talk to
equate this genocide with various other crimes becomes even more reprehensible
and completely unbecoming to nations that are, or want to be, bona fide members
of and partners in Western civilisation, and its European Union and NATO
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most genocidal regime the world has ever known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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industrial scale millions of innocent civilians, who were targeted because they
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Latvian governments to honour TODAY via marches and monuments for the Latvian SS,
name plaques and streets after collaborators are acts that only highlight their complete
unwillingness to accept<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that their
‘heroes’, their liberators from the Soviets, were also collaborators of the worst
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<strong>Latvian state dance troupe displays Nazi swastika 17 November 2013 in Riga stadium</strong><br />
<strong>article by Graeme Atkinson and Monica Lowenberg , Hope Not Hate, 24.11.2013</strong><br />
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<o:p>10. <span style="font-size: small;">BBC The Story of the Jews , Episode 4 , <em>Over the Rainbow</em> with historian Simon Schama </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9BaGc-yFE4"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9BaGc-yFE4</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> first televised 22.09.2013</span></o:p></h3>
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<strong>You Can Add Your Voice To This Petition Here:</strong> <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></a></span><br />
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<strong><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblTitle">1. How not to fight anti-Semitism</span> By Robert Wistrich</strong><br />
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<strong>To help people find out more about the situation in Lithuania see </strong><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=47128" target="_blank"><strong>http://defendinghistory.com/?<wbr></wbr>p=47128</strong></a></div>
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<strong>5. And in Latvia Visu Latvijai! (All For Latvia!), a junior partner in the Baltic state's three-party coalition government continues to honour its SS . Last year, President Berzins stated to world press that it is nonsense to call the SS criminals rather we should 'bow' our heads to them!</strong></div>
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<strong>Flowers and a photo of a soldier wearing a uniform with Gestapo insignia and the Iron Cross are laid at the Monument of Freedom in Riga, Latvia where veterans of a force that was commanded by the German Nazi Waffen SS commemorated a key 1944 battle on March 16, 2013. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre Wednesday condemned plans by Latvian nationalists to mark a WWII event that led to a massacre of Jews.<span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (AFP/File)</span></strong></div>
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<strong> 22 July 2013 President Berzins informed President Peres that he is not available to attend a memorial ceremony to mark the massacre in the killing fields of Rumbula </strong><br />
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DOVID KATZ’S 27 MAY 2013 LECTURE AT CONFERENCE IN RIGA, LATVIA (<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Riga-final-27-May-2013.pdf">PDF OF HIS PP</a><br />
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Few outsiders will understand on the face of it that this little "first" gesture is actually (in the European context that few American pundits are even aware of!) part of a campaign to UNDERMINE FURTHER THE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST, and give the obfuscationists and trivializers a powerful new US-based legitimization:</div>
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<a href="http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/45337/lithuania-welcomes-us-decision-to-declare-august-23-black-ribbon-day-201345337/" target="_blank">http://www.lithuaniatribune.<wbr></wbr>com/45337/lithuania-welcomes-<wbr></wbr>us-decision-to-declare-august-<wbr></wbr>23-black-ribbon-day-201345337/</a></div>
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This is one of the demands of the infamous 2008 PRAGUE DECLARATION</div>
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Perhaps the relevant American officials are not aware of the response, the 70 YEARS DECLARATION:</div>
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1. Ask your elected representative to speak up, and/or publish letters/articles on this to increase awareness.</h2>
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2. Stop the 16 March marches in Riga, Latvia!<br /><br />Add your voice to this petition here: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank">http://www.petitions24.com/<wbr></wbr>stop_the_16_march_marches_and_<wbr></wbr>latvians_revising_history</a></h2>
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3. ◊ <a href="http://www.seventyyearsdeclaration.org/index.html">Sign the Seventy Years Declaration</a></h2>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">Latvia: A personal march through history </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><a href="http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf">http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf</a> published in the AJR Journal (Association of Jewish Refugees, UK), Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 by Monica Lowenberg also published by Second Generation Network, Voices May 2012 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">Latvia’s difficult legacy What is March 16</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">? <a href="http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy">http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy</a> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">by Monica Lowenberg published by the Holocaust Educational Trust and Second Generation Network, Voices May 2012 </span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">Monica Lowenberg in Dialogue with Latvian Ambassador to Uk March 2012 </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">published by DefendingHistory.com <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#more-32025">http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#more-32025</a> </span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">Latvia’s Nazi Nostalgia </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">by </span></span><b>Monica Lowenberg </b><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><a href="http://www.2gforum.org.uk/back-issues.html">http://www.2gforum.org.uk/back-issues.html</a> published by Second Generation Forum </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">'Latvia's Nazi Nostalgia' </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">October 2012 </span></span><br />
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<i><b> Cameron’s Latvian Liaison, one woman’s petition and one SS march </b></i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/cameron">http://defendinghistory.com/cameron</a> latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss- march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105 by Monica Lowenberg published by DefendingHistory.Com 15.03.2013 </span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">Images from the March 16th 2013 Annual Glorification of Latvian Waffen SS in Riga </span></span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">published by Defending History.com </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri;">3 April 2013 by Monica Lowenberg <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949#more-51949">http://defendinghistory.com/riga-march-16-2013-annual-glorification-of-latvian-waffen-ss51949/51949#more-51949</a> </span></span><br />
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<strong>By July 1944 around 13,000 innocent people: Jews from Latvia and other European countries, war prisoners from different parts of the USSR and civilians- old men, women, children and members of partisan families from Russia and Belarus had been murdered in the forest of Dreilini; one and half years after the Latvian SS legion was formed on February 10, 1943. The last category - civilians - were killed in July 1944. The other categories- mostly earlier- in 1942 and 1943. </strong></div>
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<strong>To this date no memorial has been erected in Dreilini to mark this major Holocaust mass grave in Riga, the Latvian capital , only a plastic bucket of flowers near the empty frame of a long-destroyed Soviet-era tin sign.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The great Russian author Lev Tolstoy wrote in his story “From the Notebook of Prince D. Nekhlyudov. Luzern.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">If you wish to see the mass grave take number 13 bus from the central station headed for Plavnieki and get off at the stop called Darzenu baze (roughly a half-hour ride). When you get off, turn from Lubanas street to th</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">e right until you come to Darzenu baze (“warehouse for vegetables”). In the pine woods some 300 meters from the warehouse you will see a little hill, without any mark, inscription or tombstone. Just a few primitive buckets of plastic flowers mark the site. They are placed near a wood frame stand that once, in Soviet times, held within it a bilingual tin sign about the site, that has long been destroyed and removed. The site is about 600 meters from the nine-floor apartment houses in Riga’s Plavnieki district. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">What is the history of the site? To find out I interviewed Mr. Meyer Meller (in Latvian: Melers), survivor and veteran researcher at the museum called “Jews in Latvia” and author of the book <i>Sites of Memory: Jewish Communities of Latvia Annihilated in the Holocaust</i>” (Shamir: Riga 2010, in Russian).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">“For the first time I encountered information about Dreilini Forest during the well-known <i>Aktion</i> of “Dunamuende” ― the action of killing of German and Austrian Jews at the end of March and beginning of April 1942. In the KGB documents from the investigations it was discovered that killings of Austrian Jews and German Jews took place in Bikernieki Forest <i>and </i>in Dreilini Forest.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">“Then I looked into maps in current phone books and there this memorial place is mentioned. I went to the chief city architect of Riga Mr. Asaris and he gave me documents about this memorial. In Soviet times, at the start of the 1950s a fence was erected around the grave and a wooden plank was put on a metallic tube with an inscription. With time the wooden plank was taken down and a heap of dust was scattered over the spot. The authorities became interested in this fact and wrote to the Riga committee of the party asking for action to improve the situation.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>An additional investigation showed that German and Austrian Jews were brought to the Dreilini Forest to be killed. In 1943-1944 the mass grave was excavated by a special unit of Jewish and Russian military prisoners.” The corpses were excavated and burned to hide the Nazi crimes. The members of this unit were doomed. Later a Soviet investigation commission found three large mass graves in Dreilini.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>The main killings in Dreilini Forest were carried out at the end of August and start of September 1944 [precisely during the times when the Latvian SS legion “bravely defended” Latvia against the Soviet Army. ―A.F.].</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">“In July [of 1944] the Soviet army liberated Jelgava from the Nazis. The road to the west was cut, and the question arose for the Nazis, where to evacuate Russian and Belarusian civilians, old men, women and children who were members of partisans’ families that had been deported to Latvia by Latvian police battalions (including the Arajs commando). The Latvian police battalions fought partisans in those countries, including Belovezhskaya Pustcha (a deep forest in White Russia), where they told Soviet partisans that they are Latvian anti-Nazi partisans. Then they gave up Belarusian partisans to the Nazis, and burned villages, but old men, and the women and children were deported to Riga. They were settled in the Riga Ghetto and in the Salaspils concentration camp. The question arose what to do with those people, because the Soviet army was already very close.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>For this reason the Nazis decided to organize a gruesome conveyer. This civilians were put in tracks, two men lowered a man from the track, another one beat him with a wooden plank to drown out the screams, and then these half-dead people were put on fire. The perpetrators were Germans. The victims were old people, women and children. The victims spoke Latvian, Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The witnesses heard the shouting of victims:</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">‘Dear mother, do not leave me!’</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">‘Oi, panochek [<em>Mr.</em> in Polish or Byelorussian languages[, do not kill!’</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>Those who tried to run away the Nazis caught with the help of specially trained dogs and those people were immediately shot.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>We know that mostly German Jews were killed in Dreilini, but some Latvian Jews from the Riga Ghetto and from Kaiserwald were killed there too. Over the last thirteen years, the Latvian Jewish Community started to put in order dozens of Holocaust killing sites all over Latvia. However, it was my view that because not only Latvian Jews and not only Jews were killed there, but in fact, victims were from different parts of the Soviet Union and from abroad (Lithuania, Germany, Austria and probably some other countries) the monument would best be a joint project of the countries of origin of the victims.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>The idea was as follows. We agreed on one text that would appear in Belorussian, English, German, Latvian, Russian, and Ukrainian. I met with the ambassador of Germany, who agreed to participate. I spoke with representatives at the embassy of Ukraine. He told that in Latvia there are too many sites for Ukrainian victims of the Nazis, and that we should ourselves pay for cleaning up such sites. They told us they were not interested in participating. The ambassador of Ukraine said: “Why are you speaking to me, you should write to the Council of Ministers of Ukraine.” I was confused: Why should I write to the Council of Ministers of Ukraine when a representative of the Ukrainian state, the ambassador himself, is right in front of me. Why is he not interested to write to government bodies? He should do that, not me!</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>Later the Latvian society “Memorial” decided to install the monument, but they needed support of related countries and official permission and support from Latvian governmental and municipal institutions.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>“The vice-president of the Latvian Jewish community came to the office for the administration of the Latgalian suburb of the Riga municipality, where the Dreilini Forest is located (Latgales priekspilsetas izpilddirekcija). At first they supported the idea of installing a monument I gave the municipality all the documents related to Dreilini Forest. At that time the humble tin sign was desecrated in Dreilini forest. Some antisemite wrote: “Death to the Yids” (“Zdes izdohli zhidi”).It was in the year 2005 or 2006.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>“</strong>With that the history was finished. Finished with nothing. There were many articles in newspapers (for example: <i>Telegraf</i>, February 4, 2009, page 5), but to this day nothing has been done.”</span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Finally, I asked Mr. Meller on last question. In his opinion, who should coordinate the work for the construction of a monument?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">“My opinion is that the coordination should to be carried out by ‘Austrumu izpilddirekcija’ [administration of the eastern sector] of the Riga municipality, with support from the Latvian Jewish Community and from Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and ,probably, the Czech Republic.”</span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Clearly, the construction of such a monument might well become a beautiful example of cooperation between different countries of Europe from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains. It would be a common project to commemorate the victims of the Nazis and contribute to a new Europe that would never allow such killings or desecrations to take place in the future.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Because to date the story of Dreilini, a mass murder site with no marking, is shameful. To end with the same words of Tolstoy, this truly “is not a fact for the history of human acts, but for the history of progress and civilization.”</span><br />
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<strong><em>The anti-Fascists protested by putting up photographs of the atrocities that the Nazis, with the help of Latvians, had committed already in 1941. In 1943 these Latvians later and willingly joined the Latvian Legion, 15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> detachments of the Waffen SS.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>The march begins and hundreds of young Latvian men and women between the ages of 18-25 arrive at the scene. Some 70% of the attendees are young people.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>A photograph of one of the most decorated Latvian Waffen-SS officers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Anc%C4%81ns">Roberts Ancāns</a>, is placed at the base of the Freedom Monument.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Riot police cordoned the path to the Monument of Freedom.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Hundreds commemorated the Waffen SS divisions in Latvia to the outrage of anti-fascists.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Latvian nationalists sang romantic songs of mythical heroes and days gone by whilst former Latvian Waffen SS veterans arrived dressed in uniforms.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Raivis Dzintars, pictured right, is co-chair of the Latvian far right party which entered the ruling coalition in 2011. Dzintars is a member of the National Association “All For Latvia!”- “For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK” and amongst his various parliamentary duties he is, disturbingly, since November 2011, chairman of the civic education subcommittee of the Education, Culture and Science Committee.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>This year Raivis Dzintars and Janis Dombrava of National Association “All For Latvia!”— “For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK”, aggressively approached protesters and tried to tear down photographs of atrocities committed by Latvian collaborators in 1941, men who later joined the Latvian Legion in 1943.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Journalist Egle Samoskaite on Delfi.lt, <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/latviu-ss-legiono-veteranu-eitynese-zygiavo-jpanka-bei-rcekutis-apaleckis-protestavo.d?id=60919365">writing for her readers from a Lithuanian perspective</a>, saw in Riga both Cekutis and Panka. In other words, at least TWO masterminds (Panka and Cekutis) of <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/3000-participate-in-unauathorized-neo-nazi-march-in-central-vilnius-on-2013-independence-day/50796">the fascist marches in Lithuania</a> (<em>with</em> swastikas, White Power signs, Sieg Heils etc), were in RIGA to pay <em>their</em> homage to the Waffen SS.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Protester Joel Rubinfeld, co-president of the European Jewish Parliament in Brussels, was dragged away by armed police when he requested that the wreath to the victims of Nazism be restored.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Four people were detained by police and after giving an interview with a TV station, Yaniz Kuzins, chairman of Latvian Alliance against Nazism and Riga City Council member, was physically assaulted by a neo-Nazi whilst nationalists presented protesters with photographs of the Latvian Waffen SS in their Nazi uniforms.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Ambassador Stiprais,Latvian ambassador to UK, has brazenly defended the march for the second year running and stated to concerned Conservative MP David Amess, “No Nazi uniforms, symbols or slogans appear on 16<sup>th</sup> March.”</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Hon. Gert Weisskirchen MP (1976-2009), OSCE Commissioner on Antisemitism (2005-2008), Germany speaking at the anti-fascist conference after the march, a conference Nationalists tried to discredit by claiming to the Latvian press that all the attendees were KGB agents.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Journalist Richard Brodsky and a member of the New York State Assembly explained why we should be vigilant in the face of events such as the 16<sup>th</sup> March and showed a pack of playing cards glorifying Waffen SS soldiers, a pack he picked up only that day in a shop in Riga.</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>No glorification of Waffen SS, Ambassador Stiprais?</em></strong></div>
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Latvian Ambassador to the UK Comments on March 16th Waffen SS March in Riga</h1>
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <span class="entry-date">12 March 2013</span> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" title="View all posts by Defending History">Defending History</a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">LONDON</span>—Latvia’s ambassador to the UK has responded to a UK Conservative Party MP’s question about the Waffen SS events held in the center of Latvia’s capital, Riga, on March 16th each year. The office of UK Parliament MP David Amess, who represents Southend West, released the response dated 1 March 2013, which he received from the Latvian ambassador to the UK, HE Eduards Stiprais. It is reproduced in full below (as <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Stiprais-to-Amess-March-2013.pdf">PDF here</a>), courtesy of the office of <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/monica-lowenberg">Monica Lowenberg</a> in London, whose <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history">petition</a> and <a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/worldwide-media-coverage-of-latvian-ss.html">media guide</a> have brought the Latvian SS marches to increased international scrutiny.</div>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025#lowenbergsreplytolatvianambassador">MONICA LOWENBERG’S REPLY TO THE LATVIAN AMBASSADOR IN 2012</a></h5>
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See also Monica Lowenberg’s <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025">2012 exchange of ideas</a> with the Latvian ambassador to the UK. More in <em>Defending History’</em>s <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia">Latvia section</a>.<br />
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</strong>Glyn Ford, UK Labour Party, Brussels states, <em>'Any government that endorses this
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/tone-and-moral-judgment-in-a-famous-book-on-the-latvian-holocaust/55264#more-55264" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>tone-and-moral-judgment-in-a-<wbr></wbr>famous-book-on-the-latvian-<wbr></wbr>holocaust/55264#more-55264</a> <em>Tone and Moral Judgment in a famous book on the Latvian Holocaust</em> by Roland Binet June 2013<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr JOSÉ MANUEL BARROSO, RELATED TO THE “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">OCCUPATION MUSEUM</i>” OF RIGA IN LATVIA</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mr President,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dear Mr Barroso,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I recently visited the “<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Occupation</i></b></st1:placename><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></i></b></st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">”</b> in Riga/Latvia where I had the opportunity to see your picture - taken during your visit of that museum in 2008 - displayed on one wall of the entrance hall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That museum prides itself on having thus welcomed a number of well-known symbolic personalities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">persona grata</i> is all the more important now that the EU has become an unavoidable partner in the world and, furthermore, now that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> has become a full Member-State of the European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This small museum is indeed remarkable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It depicts and illustrates, sometimes in a most harrowing manner, what the Soviet terror must have been like for the inhabitants of that country invaded by the USSR in June 1940, then, reinvaded by the “liberating forces” of the Red Army after the defeat of the Germans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without any shadow of a doubt, hundreds of thousands of Latvian patriots have known the anguish of repressive methods, slavery of the mind, deportation to the Gulag, forced exile in <st1:place w:st="on">Siberia</st1:place> or other inhospitable places, or even death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An extremely reduced part of the permanent exhibition allows us to have a very vague representation of the Holocaust in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> during World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the sole and tiny wall devoted to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoah</i></b>, a gigantic picture of the female members of a Jewish family partly undressed just before their execution by bullet is prominently displayed. It is a terrifying picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the left one sees a little girl so afraid of dying that she partly hides her face against the right arm and back of her mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a picture that is well-known to historians, taken in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liepāja</st1:place></st1:city> in the dunes of Šķēde, the place of a gigantic massacre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that section of the museum devoted to the Holocaust, one can also read the name of the Latvian <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SS leader</i></b> of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Arājs</i></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commando</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As no other thorough information is displayed, one may and must infer that this man alone must be one of the principal persons responsible for the massacre of the Jews in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can understand that the part devoted to the Holocaust might be restricted compared to the decades of horror sustained by the Latvian people under Stalin, then Brezhnev, the NKVD, then the KGB.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">After all, the murder of the Jews of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> only concerned 70,000 persons</b> whereas the Museum states that hundreds of thousands of Latvian citizens suffered under the Soviet yoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Except that in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shoah caused the death of 90 % of the autochthonous Jewish population</b></i>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, only 1 Jew out of 100 survived WWII in that country! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fact that would deserve to be said and repeated as that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">percentage</i> of massacre – chiefly by bullet and wilful sanitary neglect – is one of the highest within <st1:place w:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And, a bit naively, I ask myself the following question: would there be another underlying reason in what I consider – in proportion – such a modesty of display regarding the pain, losses and deaths that the Latvian Jews had to undergo during WWII?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This renowned museum conceived for a broad public of visitors largely ignorant of the bare facts related to the war is a showcase of the two “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">occupations”</i> in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But does it represent the reality in the matter of one of the most monstrous genocides ever committed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am speaking here of the extermination of the Jews in a global Nazi undertaking of murdering whole segments of populations, of a magnitude and purpose extremely abyssal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And another question: if the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Occupation Museum </i></b>in Riga were really a showcase aiming at giving an honest representation - to foreign visitors not really cognisant of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>terror experienced by the Latvian people as a whole during the Soviet and Nazi years of occupation -, does it fulfil its purpose ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In order to judge in an impartial manner, one has to go back to different sources, be they testimonial, historical or governmental, in order to understand fully what really happened to the Jews in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> between 1941 and 1945, why and how they were exterminated?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As one can immediately ascertain by beginning with a few selected sources, there is an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">acute controversy</b> in reference to the exact role that other armed Latvians than those belonging to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Viktors Arājs Commando</i></b> may have played in the Nazi undertaking of liquidating Jews, in Latvia as well as in other foreign countries .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can also note that official sources tend to “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">downplay</i>” possible involvement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guard duties</i>” when one is referring to innocent Jewish victims being driven by force to an “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Umschlagplatz”</i>, sometimes shot on the spot when refusing or unable to move, and then forcibly put into death trains to Treblinka, are these in fact mere <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">guard duties</i>?<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In order to ascertain and understand the possible participation of Latvians in the murder of the Jews, one should, first and foremost, hark back to the past of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, that country that gained independence in 1919.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was invaded by the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region> in <st1:metricconverter productid="1940 in" w:st="on">1940 in</st1:metricconverter> accordance to the secret clauses of the Non-Aggression Pact signed between (Nazi) <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region></st1:place>, that infamous Agreement between two totalitarian states also called the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact</b>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a few weeks prior to the invasion of Latvia by the Germans, the Soviet authorities <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>began - in their own cruel and inimitable manner – their game of political paranoia in Latvia too, deporting everyone deemed, suspected, denounced, or who could constitute a threat to the integrity of the communist party, to the Gulag and the exile villages in Siberia<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[viii]</span></span></span></span></span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it is needless to say that in a country already heavily involved with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> as part of its own past, newly independent, one could in fact comb on a large scale in search of real or so-called opposition to communism, the contestants did not lack in number. The years after the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">show trials</i>” in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city> of 1937 were in fact years when paranoia was at its acutest not only Stalin’s but also within the obedient corps of the NKVD in its entirety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, this brutal repression, unfounded and on a large-scale for such a small country as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, became the present and future seeds of a permanent discontentment among the suddenly enslaved population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Germans invaded <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1941, they were greeted there as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">liberators</i>” by the local population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact a very large picture of that kind is displayed on one of the walls of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Occupation</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>, with a caption in the style of “</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">one</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> year of terror, the population greets the Germans as liberators</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.” </span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For visitors coming from Western-Europe this is a shocking picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, historically speaking, on the one hand Latvia did have German roots stemming from the period of the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hanse”</i> and, on the other hand, rather irrationally, the non-Jewish part of the Latvian population tended to be more lenient toward Germany than the USSR, whereas Germany had also been one of the signatories of the infamous Pact of August 1939, having thus allowed the Soviets free rein to take over that country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A fact almost forgotten, historically speaking</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another source of discontent toward the Jews is that that oppressed minority welcomed the arrival of the Red Army. There had always been a kind of sympathy or leniency in relation to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> from that side because some of the initial leaders of the Soviet revolution in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> were Jewish: Trotsky, Kaganovitch, and Zinoviev, among others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, in the mid-thirties when the Nazi propaganda spoke more and more vehemently about the Jewish-Bolshevist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conspiracy</i>, one may understand that many oppressed Jews looked toward <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> with a kind of longing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, for adherents to movements such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hashomer Hatsair,</i> the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bund</i>, the left – even the Stalinist version of communism – was by far preferable to a dictatorship of the right practising discriminating rules with regard to their community and vowing to exterminate them “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in case of a new world war</i>” (cf. Hitler’s speech of January 1939 when he spoke of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ausrotten” – </i>exterminate - in relation to the Jews).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, they rapidly progressed within the <st1:place w:st="on">Baltic States</st1:place>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hundreds of thousands of Jews fled their homes and took after the retreating Soviet soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were lucky because immediately after the occupation of the main towns and cities of Latvia, and in particular in Riga, the Germans appear to have given a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">carte blanche </i>to the local population so that they might take revenge on the Jews who – for some gullible persons – were held responsible for collaboration with the Soviets and for the enforced deportation of thousands of innocent Latvians.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why was it possible that there were spontaneous or induced pogroms committed by Latvian civilians, policemen or self-proclaimed militiamen at the very beginning of the occupation of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> by the Germans, at the time when some kind of chaos or governmental vacuum was reigning over that country?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was there anti-Semitism in that country prior to the occupation by the Nazis, a deep-rooted discontentment – or even hatred – that may have generated spontaneous or induced acts of such barbarity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why was there a participation of Latvians in some pogroms or mass killings even before the SS Latvian Legion was formed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">« Latvijas Institūts » of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Occupation</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place></span></i></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> states the following on its website: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“There was widespread killing of Jews by the local population without German involvement. There is no record of virulent anti-Semitism before the arrival of Nazi Germans. The Nazi German policy was to make it look like Latvians were spontaneously killing their own Jews; they co-opted and manipulated individual Latvians to do so in their stead. Jewish survivors, not knowing the command mechanism, oftentimes assumed that the Latvian collaborators were acting on their own »<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="mso-endnote-id: edn15;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xv]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shoah Resource Center</b>”</i> of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yad Vashem</i></b>, (in a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Reich Secret Document</i></b> relating to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Einsatzgruppe A</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)</i>: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">« Even in Riga it proved possible by means of appropriate suggestions to the Latvian auxiliary police to get an anti-Jewish pogrom going, in the course of which all the synagogues were destroyed and about 400 Jews killed. As the population on the whole quietened down very quickly in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city></st1:place>, it was not possible to arrange further pogroms.»<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xix]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geheimbericht</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">” (Secret Document)</i>, one can read the following statement from an active German source at the time of the killings,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>but quoted by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Léon Poliakov/Joseph Wulf</i></b>: “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the terror of the Jewish-Bolshevist hegemony – some 33,038 Latvians were deported, arrested or murdered -, an extended <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pogrom by the population would have been expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, only a few thousands Jews were spontaneously liquidated by the local population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> it was necessary for the Sonderkommandos to execute cleansing actions helped by selected personnel of the Latvian Hilfspolizei (mostly people belonging to families that had suffered a deported or murdered member).”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xx]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This view seems to be echoed in a passage taken from the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anti-Semitism” </i>chapter of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Andrew Ezergailis</i></b>’s monumental work on the annihilation of the Jews of Latvia: “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One goal of the propaganda was to create a desire for revenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A special effort was made by Stahlecker’s men to enlist relatives of victims of communism in the killing teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this purpose the propaganda apparatus was mobilized and agents were sent out to the countryside to find the kinsmen of the communist victims and cajole them into killing actions (…) the Einsatzgruppen leaders sought out the gravesites of victims of the communists as soon as they arrived in a locale; then they had the dead dug up and displayed the rotting corpses to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Digging up graves was the major news at the beginning of the occupation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An especially gruesome tale of an exhumation comes from Rēzekne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A week after the German arrival, the SD men assembled all Latvian local police guards at the edge of a gravesite, and local Jews were made to dig up the pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They uncovered about thirty half-rotted corpses.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxii]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There is also an astonishing document dated December 11, 1941, quoted by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christopher R. Browning</i></b> and that one can find in a facsimile version on Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It refers to the written report that the German lieutenant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paul Salitter</i></b>, a captain of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schutzpolizei</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>submitted to his hierarchy after having accompanied a train of Jewish deportees to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What did he write exactly? :</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> “In <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riga</st1:place></st1:city>, there were approximately 300,000 inhabitants of which about 35,000 Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews were predominant in the field of business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their businesses were nevertheless immediately closed and shut down after the arrival of the German troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews themselves were relocated in a ghetto on the Düna (<st1:place w:st="on">Dvina</st1:place>) and the place was secured by means of barbed wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time, only 2,500 male Jews employed at different labour tasks are supposed to be in the ghetto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other Jews have either been sent elsewhere to accomplish similar tasks, or have been shot by the Latvians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Latvians hate the Jews, particularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the liberation and until now, they participated massively in the extermination of these parasites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, they have trouble understanding – as I had the opportunity to ascertain with the Latvian personnel of the railways – why the Germans bring their Jews in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> instead of exterminating them in their own country…”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn25" name="_ednref25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxv]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With regard to the tragic history of the annihilation of the Jews of Latvia, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Andrew Ezergailis</i></b> mentions – in the chapter entitled “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conclusions</i>” - these two main points, among others: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The history of the Holocaust in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place> will not be complete until a full accounting is made of the murder of Jews in the small towns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We still must determine how many killings centers were in Vidzeme, for example (…) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, when the Germans entered <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city></st1:place> on July 1, 1941, did they make an exception to the standard practice of imposing a curfew and martial law ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did they in fact allow armed Latvians to roam at will through the city?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if so, by what markings or other means of recognition did the Germans distinguish friend from foe?”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn26" name="_ednref26" style="mso-endnote-id: edn26;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxvi]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As one can ascertain when reading the different accounts from survivors from the Holocaust and historical works, not only did the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commando Viktors Arājs</i></b> participate in the murder of the Latvian Jews and the Jews deported in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region> from countries of <st1:place w:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were thus pogroms, individual or mass killings, perpetrated by groups of civilians or by self-defence <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">militiamen,</i> by members of paramilitary organisations or movements close to the ideology of Fascism such as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aizsargi</i> (“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">defenders</i>”, a nationalist-populist militia founded in 1919, numbering 68,000 members from all strata of society, the principal source of collaborators for the Nazis); there was also the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pērkoņkrusts </i>organisation<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>(strangely enough, a Fascist organization forbidden by the Germans in August 1941 and whose members merged with the Nazis).<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn27" name="_ednref27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxvii]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were further the Latvian men belonging to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Schutzmannschaften<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn28" name="_ednref28" style="mso-endnote-id: edn28;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxviii]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a> </i>and, finally the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hiwis” </i>(also called “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Askaris”)</i>, these last being Soviet soldiers prisoners of war recruited by the Nazis in camps - among whom were Latvians POW’s - whose later military training took place in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trawniki</i> in Poland (also a “KZ”, by the way), and whose reputation for cruelty and savagery is quoted by all historians or witnesses who ever had to deal with these “collaborators” bearing German uniforms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is what some historians stated about the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Trawnikis</i>” (another appellation for these “volunteer” troops): “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the Nazi invasion of the <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet Union</st1:place> in </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">June 1941<span style="color: black;">, the Nazis encouraged Ukrainians, who were former soldiers of the Red Army and who had been captured, to join their cause. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered for service in the German security services, as well as Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and others (…) </span>The volunteer units were called "Trawnikis" or "Askaris" by the local population. The Germans called them Hilfswillige or Hiwis for short, and the volunteers themselves Wachtmänner. In Trawniki the Wachtmänner received abbreviated military training and exercises, including trainin</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">g for the deportation of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Jews. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Approximately 2,000-3,000 guardsmen passed through the training camp during the two and a half years of its activity. Some of them were organised into two battalions with four companies each, about 1,000 men altogether. The size of a company was 100-200 men.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn29" name="_ednref29" style="mso-endnote-id: edn29;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxix]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On May 19, <st1:metricconverter productid="2005, a" w:st="on">2005, a</st1:metricconverter> text on the actual situation in Latvia, written by<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vladimir Simonov, </i></b>was made available on Internet:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“A short excursion in Riga with a good guide will only increase the confusion that a foreign observer might feel seeing the outburst of the Nazi spirit in that Baltic state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anti-Semitic inscriptions sometimes appear on the monuments of Jewish graveyards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carpets with swastikas are exhibited in shop windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can see passers-by bearing metallic swastikas on the chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Demonstrating an astonishing historical amnesia, <st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city> becomes indignant with the alleged genocide committed in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> after the war and caused by a “totalitarian foreign empire”, but keeps silent with regard to the ethnic catastrophe in 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the brief period between the departure of the Soviet authorities and the arrival of the Hitler units, the Latvian nationalists had ample time to exterminate and rob thousands of Latvian Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A monstrous genocide committed by citizens from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region> against other citizens of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place>.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn31" name="_ednref31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxxi]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Latvian SS Legion</b> and the annual march on March <st1:metricconverter productid="16 in" w:st="on">16 in</st1:metricconverter> their honour, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">present Latvian authorities </b>support the view that these SS units had nothing whatever to do with the extermination of the Latvian Jews, because in fact when these SS units were formed or conscribed according to the Latvian sources, most of the killings of Jews in Latvia had been done.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_edn33" name="_ednref33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxxiii]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, but one may perhaps take the opposite view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waffen SS</i> units were elite troops that nearly always fought in a harsh and organised manner and succeeded, very often, in containing the advance of the Soviet Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might one, therefore, not come to the conclusion that SS combat troops – among which figures the Latvian SS Legion -, that did not kill any Jews directly, delayed the defeat of Nazi Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, inevitably, allowed thus that more Jews in ghettoes, small communities, death camps, in far-away countries (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>, etc.) could be killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One has only to think of the extermination of the Hungarian Jews begun in 1944.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were the Latvians fighting under SS uniforms against the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USSR</st1:place></st1:country-region> in fact not helping Nazi Germany to go on killing, killing and killing the Jews of Europe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">И ТЫ ЭТО ВИДЕЛ</i> »</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (i ty eto videl/And You Saw It) by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">David Silberman</i></b>, published by BOTA/Riga, ISBN 9984-19-970-3, can be bought at the Museum of the Jews of Latvia/Riga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Silberman was born in Preiļi in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place> in 1934.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His family fled the native town just one day before the murder of nearly all its Jewish inhabitants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 1958, David Silberman decided to collect testimonial material from survivors from the Holocaust. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was realised clandestinely because the Soviet authorities frowned on activities and written works that made a differentiation between Jewish and Soviet (i.e. non-Jews) victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An activist for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region>, David Silberman was one of the leading persons to organise a hunger-strike in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place> at the beginning of the seventies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He underwent questioning by the KGB, a search of his apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, after the hunger-strike he was granted permission to emigrate to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is now an American citizen and has many other books in Russian and English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these - entitled “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like a Star in the Darkness</i></b>”, ISBN 979-9984-280-6 – describes the story of Janis (Zhan) Lipke, a Latvian patriot who helped and saved around 50 Jews from certain death during WWII. This righteous man was honoured in Jerusalem where his name was inscribed in the “Golden Book” of the Jewish nation as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Righteous among the Nations (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">from the cover of his book and my personal contacts with him: Roland Binet)</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">THE MURDER OF THE JEWS IN <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">LATVIA</st1:place></st1:country-region> 1941-1945</i> », </b>by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bernhard Press</i></b>, Nothwestern University Press, ISBN 0-8101-1729-0, can be bought on Internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the short biographical information on the back cover, Bernhard Press was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1917.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He studied in <st1:city w:st="on">Florence</st1:city> because of covert anti-Semitism in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1951, he was accused of high treason and sentenced to 25 years in an arctic labour camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After being released in 1956, he emigrated to West-Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was an Honorary Professor of Pathology at the Free University of Berlin.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">MEMOIRS</i> » </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elmar Rivosh</i>, </b>ISBN 978-9984-39-515-9; this book can be bought at the Museum of the Jews of Latvia in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riga</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the short biographical information on the back cover and footnote ˡ page 7 of his memoirs, Elmar Rivosh was born in Kreuzburg (Krustpils) in 1906, studies in <st1:city w:st="on">Riga</st1:city>, later <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was imprisoned in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riga</st1:place></st1:city> ghetto, and he was the only one from his family to escape when he went into hiding with the help of Latvian benevolents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excerpts from the chapters “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Beginning of the End</i>” and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It Begins</i>” have been translated into several languages and widely circulated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are acknowledged as a remarkable testament to WWII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bulk of the text was written in hiding during the war and completed after liberation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These chapters were sent to Soviet writers (V. Grossman and I. Ehrenburg) in order to be included in the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Book</i></b>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The manuscript featured at the Nuremberg Trials of the key Nazi criminals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire edition of the already typeset of the “Black Book” was never published at that time, it was destroyed when the Anti-Fascist Committee (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">) was liquidated by the Stalinist regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(as is well-known, the “Black Book” was later published in Western-European countries and translated into many languages: Roland Binet).</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L’EXTERMINATION DES JUIFS EN LETTONIE 1941-1945</i> » </b>(The Extermination of the Jews in Latvia 1941-1945)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, </b>a conferences’ cycle, director of publication <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rabbin Ménachem Barkahan</i>, </b>ISBN 978-9984-9835-8-5, published by the « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shamir Association</i> », Riga/Latvia; translated from the original Russian but available in French at the Museum of the Jews of Latvia; this book received the support of the “Agence Exécutive” (Éducation, audiovisuel et culture – EACEA) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the EU. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This remarkable book describes in a very thorough manner the social and political context in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> prior to WWII.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It details methodically, village after village, town after town, city after city, ghetto after ghetto, killing ground after killing ground, what really happened in Latvia and how the Latvian Jews were exterminated during WWII. (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">for anyone really interested in knowing the horrifying reality of the Holocaust in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place>, this is an absolute must, and it is a pity it is not yet available in English or German: Roland Binet).</span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="mso-endnote-id: edn11;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xi]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memoirs</i> » by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Elmar Rivosh</i>, Riga 2008, pages 21/22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="mso-endnote-id: edn13;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xiii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">и ты это видел</i> » (i ty eto videl- And you Saw It), by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">David Silberman</i>, Bota/Riga, page 38<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="mso-endnote-id: edn14;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L’Extermination des Juifs en Lettonie 1941-1945</i> » (the Extermination of the Jews in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region> 1941-1945),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conferences’ cycle, publishing director Rabbi Menachem Barkahan<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="mso-endnote-id: edn16;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xvi]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Ibid footnote ‘6’ (Bernhard Press), pages 29/30<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="mso-endnote-id: edn17;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xvii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Ibid footnote 11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="mso-endnote-id: edn18;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xviii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Holocaust – The Jewish Tragedy</i> », by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Martin Gilbert</i>, pages 157/158<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="mso-endnote-id: edn19;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xix]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.yadvashem.org</span></a>/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>, search<span class="FooterChar"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> under “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Holocaust</i>” the chapter relating to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holocaust Resource Center</i>, then type “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Latvia</i>” under “Search by Keyword”, you access the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shoah Resource Center</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then click on “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Riga</i>”: a feature text relating to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Einsatzgruppe A</i></span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, (</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">General Report up to October 15, 1941 –</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">II -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cleansing {of Jews} and securing the area of operation</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">.)<span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="mso-endnote-id: edn20;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xx]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Das dritte Reich und die Juden » (the Third Reich and the Jews) </i>by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Léon Poliakov/Joseph Wulf, </i>page 148<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="mso-endnote-id: edn22;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Holocaust in Latvia » </i>by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Andrew Ezergailis, </i>page 104<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref23" name="_edn23" style="mso-endnote-id: edn23;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxiii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Der Spiegel</i>”, 17/2005 dated 25/04/2005, an article by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walter von Mayr</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref24" name="_edn24" style="mso-endnote-id: edn24;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxiv]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holokaust</i> », by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guido Knopp</i>, page 62<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref25" name="_edn25" style="mso-endnote-id: edn25;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxv]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paul Salitter</i>’s report, quoted in page 90 of « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Des hommes ordinaires</i> » (“Ordinary Men”) by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christopher R. Browning</i> ; the original facsimile report can be consulted on Internet under the search words<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Düsseldorfer Polizeigeschichte – Deportation von jüdischen Menschen</i>” , and under </span><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.yadvashem.org</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where under the heading “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The International School for Holocaust Studies</i>” there is a subject matter entitled “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Transport” Lesson Plan</i>”, where in the text by clicking on “documents” of the “start by reading the documents”, one can access the English translation of the original German report by Lieutenant Paul Salitter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a translation from my French version of that report<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref27" name="_edn27" style="mso-endnote-id: edn27;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxvii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Cf. Glossary in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">L’Extermination des Juifs en Lettonie 1941-1945</i> », cycle of conferences, publishing director Rabbi Menachem Barkahan, written by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grigory Smirine</i>, Doctor in History<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref30" name="_edn30" style="mso-endnote-id: edn30;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxx]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chasseur de nazis</i> » by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Efraim Zuroff</i> with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alexandre Duyck</i>, pages 86/87<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref31" name="_edn31" style="mso-endnote-id: edn31;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxxi]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Website of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ResistanceS/Belgium</i>, can be consulted in French on the website </span><a href="http://www.resistances.be/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">www.resistances.be</span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">/ , posted May 19, 2005<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref32" name="_edn32" style="mso-endnote-id: edn32;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxxii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Efraim Zuroff</i>’s article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian » </i>of March 18, 2010, entitled « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dangerous history-rewriting in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place> </i>». <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Efraim Zuroff</i> is the Director of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simon Wiesenthal Center</i>-Israel Office<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#_ednref33" name="_edn33" style="mso-endnote-id: edn33;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="FR"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><span style="color: blue;">[xxxiii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An extended explanation can be read on the website of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Latvia</st1:placename></st1:place>, </i>see URL footnote 2<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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MEDIA</h2>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">DOCUMENTARY</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">"</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After all we
survived- The Riga Ghetto."</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> 98 Min. DVD </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Director Jürgen Hobrecht </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All rights reserved Berlin 2013</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Please contact </span></i><i><span lang="DE" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><a href="mailto:info@phoenix-medienakademie.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc6611; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">info@phoenix-medienakademie.com</span></a></span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Details and outtakes </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><a href="http://www.phoenix-medienakademie.com/"><span style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.phoenix-medienakademie.com</span></a>
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</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">http://jhobrecht.wordpress.com/</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">(English version coming soon)</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Zwischen November 1941 und Oktober
1942 werden rund 22.000 Juden aus dem Deutschen Reich nach Riga verschleppt.
Unmittelbar vor der Ankunft der deutschen, tschechischen und österreichischen
Juden in Riga werden an nur zwei Tagen 27.000 lettischen Juden und Jüdinnen
ermordet, um Platz für die Neuankömmlinge aus dem Reich zu schaffen. Auch
Tausende Deportierte aus dem Deutschen Reich werden direkt nach der Ankunft
erschossen. Diejenigen, die das Ghetto lebend erreichten, erleiden jahrelange
Qualen.Von 24.605 in den Jahren 1941 bis 1942 nach Riga deportierten Juden aus
dem „Großdeutschen Reich“ überleben nur 1.073.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Zeitzeugen berichten in dem Film von
dem Massaker an den lettischen Juden, dem Leben im Ghetto und dem Überleben mit
dem Trauma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Interessenten an Filmvorführungen in
Schulen, Gedenkstätten, Museen etc. sind herzlich willkommen. Die <b>DVD</b>
kann für 12,00 + 3,00 Versand bei <b> </b> <a href="mailto:info@phoenix-medienakademie.com"><span style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">info@phoenix-medienakademie.com</span></a> bezogen
werden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Between
November 1941 and October 1942, 24.606 Jews from the "Deutsche
Reich" (Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia) were deported to Riga.
4.500 were shot on arrival. The remaining Jews<b> </b>were sent to
the Reichsjudenghetto and Jungfernhof and forced to live in an
area where about 13,000 people had lived previously. However,
before the "Reichsjuden" had been deported to Riga, to make
room for the new arrivals, some 25,000 Latvian Jews out of 30,000,
who had been placed into the Riga ghetto from August 1941
onwards were, over only two days, shot by the Nazis and willing
Latvian collaborators. The brutal murder of Latvian Jews was one of the
second-worst atrocities in the first stage of the Holocaust and yet,
until now, this terrible chapter has rarely been spoken or written about.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Those who
survived the ghetto suffered for years after. Out of the 24.606
ReichsJuden who were deported to Riga between 1941-1942, only 1,073 survived .</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In Hobrecht’s
new film, German and Latvian survivors speak out for the first time
about the massacre against the Latvian Jews, the living conditions in the
ghetto and how they survived the trauma. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Media List for March 16th 2012
and 2013:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/worldwide-media-coverage-of-latvian-ss.html"><span style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Annual Waffen SS
Fest</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/waffen-ss-fest-riga-16-march-2013-world.html">http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/waffen-ss-fest-riga-16-march-2013-world.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Petition:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You can add your voice to this
petition here: <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Recent talks
in Riga, Latvia regarding the Latvian SS, the Red Brown Commission
and Prague Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Viewings of documentary 'Rewriting History' <a href="http://rewriting-history.org/"><span style="color: #cc6611; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://rewriting-history.org/</span></a></span></b><br />
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History: New Documentary Film on the Shocking New Holocaust Revisionism in
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/nazis-again-really_b_2866984.html">R. BRODSKY</a>; <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/latvian-ambassador-to-the-uk-comments-on-march-16th-waffen-ss-march-in-riga/50988">LATVIA’S UK AMBASSADOR</a></h5>
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<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/16/3289638/latvians-commemorate-waffen-ss.html">AP</a>; <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/latviu-ss-legiono-veteranu-eitynese-zygiavo-jpanka-bei-rcekutis-apaleckis-protestavo.d?id=60919365">Delfi</a>; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/16/latvians-commemorate-waffen-ss-divisions-amid-loud-protest-police-presence/">Fox</a>; <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/16/us-latvia-march-idUSBRE92F09N20130316">Reuters</a>; <a href="http://en.ria.ru/world/20130316/180058899/Latvian-SS-Veterans-March-to-Soviet-Songs.html">RIA</a>; <a href="http://rt.com/news/latvia-demonstration-363/">RT</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V-IMJ2t-J4">video</a>); <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-mk-marina-solodkin-dies-of-stroke-in-latvia/">ToI</a>; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvians-commemorate-waffen-ss-divisions-amid-loud-protest-police-presence/2013/03/16/29893178-8e2c-11e2-adca-74ab31da3399_story.html">Wash. Post</a>; <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4357142,00.html">YNet</a></h5>
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/last-facebook-post-of-former-israeli-knesset-member-marina-solodkin/51295">MARINA SOLODKIN’S LAST FACEBOOK POST</a></h5>
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<a href="http://www.rubinfeld.be/newsletters/20130322.html">JOËL RUBINFELD</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/on-the-eve-of-yom-hashoah-great-britain-sinks-into-littleness-on-the-holocaust/">http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/04/on-the-eve-of-yom-hashoah-great-britain-sinks-into-littleness-on-the-holocaust/</a> Algemeiner 4.4.2013 by Monica Lowenberg<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hope not hate Friday, 5 April 2013, 21:22 A Hope not hate Special by Monica Lowenberg Not every day that one sees William Hague courting photo shoots with Hollywood “A lister” Angelina Jolie, who is also a rightly noted and...</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/1002/the-photo-shoots-hague-would-rather-forget" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Read more...</span></a> <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/On-Foreign-Office-website-5-6-April-2013.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Foreign Office Also Posts Her Essay</span></a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Lidington-MP-8-April-2013.jpg">Minister for Europe Enters the Fray; Of Churchill’s Party, He Seems to Forget Great Britain’s Heroism in Bringing Down Hitler and — Scourge (and Historic Result) of Nazi-Worship in the Baltics</a><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Monica-Lowenberg-in-London-Jews-News-2-May-2013.pdf" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>wp-content/uploads/2013/05/<wbr></wbr>Monica-Lowenberg-in-London-<wbr></wbr>Jews-News-2-May-2013.pdf</a> <em>You can't praise Hitler's troops <strong>and </strong>champion human rights, Mr Hague and Mr Lidington.</em> Opinion piece by Monica Lowenberg Jewish News 02.05.2013<br />
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<a href="http://www.totallyjewish.com/the_jewish_news/view/c-19705/jewish-news-jn-793-020513/?no_login=1">http://www.totallyjewish.com/the_jewish_news/view/c-19705/jewish-news-jn-793-020513/?no_login=1</a> p15 on online version, p11 in print<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/riga-and-the-waffen-ss-fa_b_3046374.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/riga-and-the-waffen-ss-fa_b_3046374.html</a> Richard Brodsky<br />
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<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=309270">http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=309270</a> Efraim Zuroff<br />
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<a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/books-june-13-spurning-old-truths-michael-pinto-duschinsky-taste-of-ashes-marci-shore">http://standpointmag.co.uk/books-june-13-spurning-old-truths-michael-pinto-duschinsky-taste-of-ashes-marci-shore</a> by Dr Michael Pinto Duschinsky<br />
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<a href="http://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/hundreds-commemorate-waffen-ss-divisions-in-latvia-anti-fascists-outraged-photos/">http://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/hundreds-commemorate-waffen-ss-divisions-in-latvia-anti-fascists-outraged-photos/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.jungewelt.de/2013/03-18/025.php">http://www.jungewelt.de/2013/03-18/025.php</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.oe24.at/welt/1-500-SS-Veteranen-marschieren-durch-Riga/98139349">http://www.oe24.at/welt/1-500-SS-Veteranen-marschieren-durch-Riga/98139349</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/welt/politik/sn/artikel/lettische-ss-veteranen-marschieren-durch-riga-51493/">http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/welt/politik/sn/artikel/lettische-ss-veteranen-marschieren-durch-riga-51493/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.meinbundeslandheute.at/allgemein/2013/03/16/CMS1363438927689/">http://www.meinbundeslandheute.at/allgemein/2013/03/16/CMS1363438927689/</a><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V-IMJ2t-J4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=9V-IMJ2t-J4</a> Latvia: Violence erupts at veteran Nazi commemoration march.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6dTwGaKFs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6dTwGaKFs</a> Waffen SS veterans commemorate Latvia's checkered past</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXpk9DF0q4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXpk9DF0q4</a> Photograph of one of the most decorated Latvian Waffen-SS officers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Anc%C4%81ns"><span style="color: blue;">Roberts Ancāns</span></a>, is placed at the base of the Freedom Monument. See 0.33</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPFERljhSXw " target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=WPFERljhSXw </a>Laying of the wreath to the victims of Nazism by an international delegation of politicians that included: Hon Tatiana Zhdanoka MEP, Latvia, Hon. Gert Weisskirchen MP (1976-2009), OSCE Commissioner on anti-Semitism (2005-2008), Germany, Hon. Nikolais Kabanovs MP, Latvia, Joel Rubinfeld Co-President of the European Jewish Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, Hon.Giulietto Chiesa MEP 2004-2010, Italy, Hon. Marina Solodkina Member of Knesset, Israel 1996-2013, Hon. Inna Supac , MP, Moldova</li>
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•<a href="http://rumbula.org/bikernieki_forest_latvia.shtml" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://rumbula.org/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>bikernieki_forest_latvia.shtml</span></a> - on Bikernieki forest<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00c74k5">http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00c74k5</a> BBC World Service, Wendy Robbins reports on Holocaust Obfuscation and Anti-Semitism in the Baltics including interviews with John Mann MP<br />
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<em><em><strong>I Survived Rumbuli</strong> </em></em>By Frida Michelson <br />
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Shop Memorial Council, February 1982.<br />
Frida Michelson, as only one of two to survive, felt G-d chose her as a witness. Frida Michelson’s riveting story details the horrors she experienced and describes her survival of the actions at Rumbula. It goes on to tell of her survival of years of Nazi occupation with the aid of a series of righteous Latvians, a number of whom were Seventh Day Adventists.<br />
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<em><strong>The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: The Missing Center</strong></em><br />
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Historical Institute of Latvia in association with the USHMM<br />
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<img height="10" src="http://www.rumbula.org/images/book.gif" width="23" /> Excerpt - <a class="body" href="http://vip.latnet.lv/LPRA/EZERG_intr.html"><span style="color: #3333cc;">Introduction</span></a><br />
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<em><strong>The Murder of the Jews in Latvia, 1941-1945</strong> </em><br />
by Bernhard Press, Laimdota Mazzarins (Translator)<br />
Northwestern University Press<br />
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<em><strong>MASTERS OF DEATH<br /> The SS-Einsatzgruppen and The Invention of the Holocaust</strong></em><br />
by Richard Rhodes<br />
Knopf. <br />
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<a class="body" href="http://www.arlindo-correia.com/120802.html"><span style="color: #3333cc;">New York Times Review of <em>Masters of Death</em></span></a>, Reviews by Walter Reich and Deborah E. Lipstadt<br />
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<a class="body" href="http://www.rumbula.org/bookexcerpt.htm"><span style="color: #3333cc;">Rumbula Viewed From The Riga Ghetto - Book Excerpt</span></a><br />
<em><strong>The Ghetto of Riga and Continuance - A Survivor's Memoir</strong></em><br />
By Alfred Winter, copyright 1998 <br />
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<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NOvWYblJMSUC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=riga+ghetto.+alfred+winter&source=bl&ots=XP30VZkJJU&sig=R80yK9cnVvgtWox0XvYhdvaOdbI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=poxhUfwHqprUBf-3gKgG&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=riga%20ghetto.%20alfred%20winter&f=false">http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NOvWYblJMSUC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=riga+ghetto.+alfred+winter&source=bl&ots=XP30VZkJJU&sig=R80yK9cnVvgtWox0XvYhdvaOdbI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=poxhUfwHqprUBf-3gKgG&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=riga%20ghetto.%20alfred%20winter&f=false</a> <strong>On line book re Riga ghetto by Bernhard Press</strong><br />
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•<a href="http://www.jewsoflatvia.com/thebook.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.jewsoflatvia.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>thebook.html</span></a> <strong>on line memoir by Max Kauffman survivor of the Riga ghetto</strong><br />
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<em><strong>Hitler's Foreign Executioners Europe's Dirty Secret</strong></em> By Christopher Hale. The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK ,2011<br />
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<em><strong>Latvia's Haunting Secrets</strong> </em>By Ethel S. Davis Sydney Jewish Museum , Australia, 2013 ISBN: 9780987193582<br />
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Zwischen November 1941 und Oktober 1942 werden rund 22.000 Juden aus dem Deutschen Reich nach Riga verschleppt. Unmittelbar vor der Ankunft der deutschen, tschechischen und österreichischen Juden in Riga werden an nur zwei Tagen 27.000 lettischen Juden und Jüdinnen ermordet, um Platz für die Neuankömmlinge aus dem Reich zu schaffen. Auch Tausende Deportierte aus dem Deutschen Reich werden direkt nach der Ankunft erschossen. Diejenigen, die das Ghetto lebend erreichten, erleiden jahrelange Qualen.Von 24.605 in den Jahren 1941 bis 1942 nach Riga deportierten Juden aus dem „Großdeutschen Reich“ überleben nur 1.073.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Between November 1941 and October 1942, 24.606 Jews from the "Deutsche Reich" (Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia) were deported to Riga. 4.500 were shot on arrival. The remaining Jews<b> </b>were sent to the Reichsjudenghetto and Jungfernhof and forced to live in an area </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">where about 13,000 people had lived previously.<span style="color: #222222;"> However, before the "Reichsjuden" had been deported to Riga, to make room for the new arrivals, some 25,000 Latvian Jews out of 30,000, who had been placed into the Riga ghetto from August 1941 onwards were, over only two days, shot by the Nazis and willing Latvian collaborators. </span>The brutal murder of Latvian Jews was one of the second-worst atrocities in the first stage of the Holocaust and yet, until now, this terrible chapter has rarely been spoken or written about.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">2. Due to popular demand, this screening was moved to a larger theatre at AJU. </span></strong>This special screening of "REWRITING HISTORY", an important and provocative new documentary, is followed by a discussion with filmmaker Dr. Danny Ben-Moshe and Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at the American Jewish University.WHERE: American Jewish University (AJU)15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077WHEN: <strong>Sunday, April 28th at 4:00 P</strong> <a href="tel:%28310%29%20440-1279" target="_blank" value="+13104401279">(310) 440-1279</a> RSVP<br />
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her readers from a Lithuanian perspective, saw in Riga both Cekutis AND Panka. <a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/latviu-ss-legiono-veteranu-eitynese-zygiavo-jpanka-bei-rcekutis-apaleckis-protestavo.d?id=60919365" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/latviu-ss-legiono-veteranu-eitynese-zygiavo-jpanka-bei-rcekutis-apaleckis-protestavo.d?id=60919365</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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TWO masterminds (Panka and Cekutis) of the fascist marches in Lithuania (WITH
swastikas, White Power signs, Sieg Heils etc see </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/3000-participate-in-unauathorized-neo-nazi-march-in-central-vilnius-on-2013-independence-day/50796"><span style="color: blue;">http://defendinghistory.com/3000-participate-in-unauathorized-neo-nazi-march-in-central-vilnius-on-2013-independence-day/50796</span></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were in RIGA to pay THEIR homage to the
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The wreaths for the victims of Nazism
laid by the Antifascist Committee were, again, defaced rather than simply moved
aside to make room for the flowers from the veterans and their supporters- a plethora
of anti-Semitic comments could be heard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mnFIA148g4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mnFIA148g4</a></span></span></div>
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decorated Latvian Waffen-SS officers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Anc%C4%81ns"><span style="color: blue;">Roberts Ancāns</span></a>, is
placed at the base of the Freedom Monument. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> see 0.35 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXpk9DF0q4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXpk9DF0q4</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rubinfeld <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>co president of the Jewish
parliament in Brussels said to press,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is shameful that the Waffen SS march
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<a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/67054/neo-nazi-youth-group-eu-funded-council"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">MARCUS DYSCH</span></a>; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/conservatives-european-allies-holocaust-deniers"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">JONATHAN FREEDLAND</span></a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/14/double-genocide-lithuania-holocaust-communism/print"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2)</span></a>; <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">BARRY GARDINER</span></a>; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/20/holocaust-michal-kaminski?INTCMP=SRCH"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">AMELIA GENTLEMAN</span></a>;
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/red-brown-commissions/critiques#sirmartingilbert"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">SIR MARTIN GILBERT</span></a>; <a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010Oct7EstherGoldberg.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ESTHER GOLDBERG</span></a>; <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2009/11/european-latvia-party"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">MEHDI HASAN</span></a>; <a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/never-again"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">LORD JANNER OF BRAUNSTONE</span></a>; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">DOVID KATZ</span></a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Dovid-Katz-op-ed-in-London-Jewish-News-13-Dec-2012.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2)</span></a>; <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/11958563?story_id=11958563"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">EDWARD LUCAS</span></a>; <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/2009/07/poland-kaminski-european"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">JAMES MACINTYRE</span></a>; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/21/conservatives-europe-foreign-policy"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">DENIS MACSHANE</span></a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/conservatives-europe-miliband-hague-kaminski"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(2)</span></a>; <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/21392/europe-must-focus-baltic-hate"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">JOHN MANN</span></a>; <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2161"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">MANN, BOTTOMLEY & RUSSELL</span></a>; <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/16456/rabbi-blasts-tories-over-euro-allies"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">RABBI BARRY MARCUS</span></a>; <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/06/davidcameron-conservatives"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">EDWARD McMILLAN-SCOTT</span></a>;
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-soviet-pact"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">SEUMAS MILNE</span></a>; <a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2010MarchPapodopolousInGovGazette.pdf"><span style="color: #000033; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">MARCUS PAPADOPOULOS</span></a>;
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">First published </span><span class="entry-date">15 March 2013</span> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" title="View all posts by Defending History">Defending History</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">by Monica Lowenberg</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black;">If you walked through a busy EU city today and came across <i>Eichmann Allee</i>, <i>Hitler Strasse</i> or even <i>Goebbels Gasse</i> you would initially think that someone was pulling your leg or you would start to raise, and rightly so, serious questions regarding the ruling government that would allow such blatant glorification of mass murderers to take place. You can therefore imagine how I felt, the daughter of a German Jewish refugee whose paternal Latvian Jewish family had all been brutally murdered in the Libau massacres of 1941 and Riga ghetto, to discover in 2011, that each and every 16 March, since 1998, SS veterans are glorified in the capital city of Riga in Latvia an EU and NATO country since 2004.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">My name is Monica Lowenberg; I was born on a cold winter’s day in 1964, in ear shot of Bow Bells.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">On January 20, 2012, I set up a petition to stop the 16<sup>th</sup> March marches in Riga, ninety years to the day from the date of birth of my uncle Paul Theodor Loewenberg who at age 19 was sent to the Riga Ghetto on 4 October 1941. The petition is as much an act of commemoration of the victims of Nazism as it is a tribute to the European parliamentarians, including a number from Latvia, who wisely and courageously signed on the 20 January last year 2012, the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230"><span style="color: black;">Seventy Years Declaration</span></a>, commemorating Wannsee, a declaration <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230#notoglorification"><span style="color: black;">which specifically rejects glorification of Latvia’s Waffen SS</span></a>, along with Estonia’s Waffen SS and the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) in Lithuania.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">In little over a month the petition gained from around the world over 5,800 votes, one year on it stands at just under 7,000 votes and the two early day motions by Dr. Barry Gardiner and Bob Blackman generated between them 34 supporters, 50% of them Labour, 5 conservatives, 5 liberal democrats and the rest other parties indicating that I am not alone in believing that such glorification is terribly wrong. One should also add that the ECRI, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance had already in 2008 explicitly stated,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong>“All attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimizing in any way Nazism should be banned.” </strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">The ECRI reiterated the same <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/european-commission-condemns-latvias-waffen-ss-parades/31490"><span style="color: black;">in their most recent report about Latvia released on the 21 February 2012</span></a>. However, despite such support the March of the SS went on nevertheless, and so I flew to Riga last March 16 to protest.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">On March 16th, 2012 in the heart of NATO, in an EU country, in Riga, more than 2,500 people, (75% of them under the age of 30), gathered to pay tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. Amongst them a large number of neo-Nazi activists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Norway and Denmark and Latvian officials and MEPs. Over the years the marches have been attended by the Latvian Chief-of-Staff, Secretary of Defense, members of the nation’s parliament and current and former ministers and officials. They herald the Latvian SS veterans as war heroes and freedom fighters as they claim they fought in German ranks to hold back a greater evil, the Soviet Union.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Each and every year these events have and are receiving tacit (and sometimes very explicit and public) support from state authorities (last year from the president himself) and are being attended in increasing numbers by deputies of the Latvian Parliament, members of the Riga City Council and officials of the Ministry of Defense. For example, the Latvian European MP Robert Zile who sits together with our British Conservatives in the European Parliament also supports the marches. Mr. Zile may have left the National Alliance, a party that is a result of two merging parties that both openly glorify Latvian SS veterans, “Fatherland and Freedom party” and “All for Latvia.” However, Mr. Zile is still connected with the “Fatherland and Freedom party” LNNK, a party that actively supports the marches.<a arch="" article="" doc="" ftn1="" href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/Monica" mid="" s="" title=""><span style="color: black;">[1]</span></a> It should also be noted that the party that Mr. Zile is connected to LNNK is the very same party that told the Latvian parliament that it has always been against the trial of Konrads Kalejs and other Latvians accused of Nazi crimes. Kalejs was a close assistant of Viktors Arajs, chief of the bloody Arajs Commando. He was an officer in one of the most notorious murder squads which assisted the Nazis in implementing the Final Solution and which actively participated in the mass murder of tens of thousands of Jews, primarily in Latvia but also in Belarus. (Kalejs was not sent to Belarus, but was involved in reprisals against civilians suspected of assisting Soviet anti-Nazi partisans.)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Aside from state and church officials supporting the marches, last year Archbishop Jānis Vanags officiated the proceedings and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/latvia">in a curiously detailed letter to myself</a> the Latvian ambassador in London expressed his support for the events,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“In accordance with Latvia’s laws and regulations 16 March is not an official day of commemoration, however some former soldiers choose to pay their respects to their fallen comrades. Church services are held and people gather in cemeteries and lay flowers at the Monument of Freedom in Riga. I hope you will agree that church services and commemoration in cemeteries cannot be regarded as revision of history or glorification of Waffen SS. Even if some people regard Latvian legionnaires as war heroes, it is my sincere belief they do so because they fought, unfortunately in German, not Latvian uniforms against the Soviet Union.”</span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">And once again he fervently supported the marches in his response of 1<sup>st</sup> March 2013 to David Amess Conservative MP, one of the five brave conservative MPs who signed the EDM against the marches, and who voiced serious concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong>“If some former soldiers choose to pay their respects to their fallen comrades, they are entitled to do so… Let me reiterate, that Latvia has always condemned the crimes committed during World War II — the crimes of Nazism and Stalinism. Latvia is committed to the values of democratic and open society and we will endeavor to facilitate true consolidation of the people and countries who suffered under totalitarian regimes during World War II.”</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Ambassador Stiprais fails to give the true picture, the marches are not only attended by a few soldiers but also as mentioned various politicians, thousands of misguided youth and various ultra-nationalist groups and factions that are Neo-Nazi in kind, originating from Latvia and neighboring European countries. For example, only last year on Latvian television Igor Shishkin, chair of the Gustavs Celmins society, claimed that according to the Geneva Convention, people who feel in danger have a right to armed resistance. As a consequence, he attended the 16 March march 2012 in Riga armed with a baton and invited skinheads and ultra-rights from Italy, Ukraine and Germany to join him. The harangue and calls made by such groups openly supports and promotes the “heroism” of SS veterans. However, more disturbing is that hundreds and thousands of youngsters and teenagers were and are asked to participate and march under Latvian state symbols and flags with officials and public state and church figures. Polite looking youth, looking up in absolute awe at the Waffen SS octogenarians, youth dressed in Armani and Hugo Boss. One would be excused for believing that times had not changed.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The Latvian legion of the Waffen SS was set up in the winter of 1943, only seventy years ago, under Hitler’s orders, and formally established on March 16<sup>th </sup>1944. There is consensus amongst all Latvian historians that the day marks the only time that the two Divisions of the Legion (15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup>) fought together against the Red Army. Therefore, by making the 16th March a day to remember war dead, Latvians, (despite Latvian official protestations to the contrary), are making the day when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> divisions of the SS an act of commemoration. As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to honor the Legion is far from being a positive act and a far cry from a policy to publicly GLORIFY them. Glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">At the Monument of Freedom in the center of Riga where the SS lovers congregated last year, a contradiction in terms if ever there was one, I was jostled, harassed and made to feel unwelcome. I was told by a number of young Waffen SS supporters that even though my grandfather was born in Libau (Libava), Latvia and all of my Latvian Jewish family had lived for generations in Libau, until they were brutally murdered in the Libau massacres of 1941 and Riga Ghetto of the same year, I had no rights to be in Latvia as I was Jewish. The desire to equate Nazi crimes with Soviet became crucially apparent, when I was informed that I needed to be made aware that Latvians had suffered terribly under Stalin, Communism created by Jews was far worse than Nazism, how dare I tell them otherwise. One would be excused for believing that times have not moved on since 1941. And when Stiprais the Latvian ambassador in London publicly, without any shame, stated to a conservative MP David Amess in March 2013 that Latvia is committed to “facilitate true consolidation of the people and countries who suffered under totalitarian regimes during World War II” what he is really saying is “Hey, get Latvia off the hook, we were victims of Nazism and Stalinism, both were as bad as each other and we intend to change the history books to meet our ends.” </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Yet, history shows that even though millions of people suffered under both regimes, they cannot be compared and nobody should be allowed to purposely muddy the historical record. If I look at just my own family, in total 35 members of my father’s family were brutally murdered in the Holocaust, 13 close members. However, only last September, I discovered that at the age of 66, my grandfather David Lowenberg/Levenbergs, an engineer in Berlin, unable to escape Nazi Germany left for Moscow in 1941 where he was falsely accused of being a spy, placed into the infamous Hotel Lux and sent to Siberia for five years. At 67, alone, he died in a freezing gulag somewhere in Novosibirsk. In 1989 his file was reviewed by a Moscow based Military Prosecutors office and his name rehabilitated. Yes, my family knows about the crimes of Stalin and the crimes of Hitler and we adulate neither of them or equate them as equal, no matter how terrible our loss has been, Ambassador Stiprais.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">When fellow protester Joel Rubinfeld, co-president of the European Jewish Parliament in Brussels told the Latvian police and armed guards to ask the youngsters to stop desecrating the wreath we had placed down to the victims of Nazism, something we had been given legal permission to do by the mayor of Riga, he was ignored. When Rubinfeld gave during a TV interview a box of Belgian chocolates to a Latvian politician and asked him why the Latvians wouldn’t like to be famous for something pleasant that all can enjoy such as chocolates; something that has made Belgium world famous, rather than the Waffen SS, his chocolates were returned to him. You may laugh but in Latvia, contrary to what Latvian apologists may claim, the glorification of the Waffen SS is serious business. For let us not forget when questioned whether he thought the Latvian SS were criminals, Andris Berzins, Latvia’s President, stated to international uproar last year that it was ridiculous to see them as criminals but rather we should “bow our heads to them”! </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">One would be excused for believing that times have not changed since 1941. And the most popular selling calendar in Latvia last year was one that honored the bravery of the Latvian SS and in the capital Riga there may not be, as in Latvia’s neighbor Lithuania street names honoring mass murderers such as Juozas Ambrazevičius Brazaitis, the Nazi puppet prime minister of 1941 who signed papers confirming orders placing thousands of Jews into a ghetto (only last year this very same man was honored a full state-sponsored re-burial with honors which this year fascist youth groups emulated by having a picture of the very same man at the front of their march on February 16) or Škirpa (responsible for co-founding the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Activist_Front" title="Lithuanian Activist Front"><span style="color: black;">Lithuanian Activist Front</span></a>, which held deeply antisemitic and anti-Polish views and participated in the onset of the Holocaust in Lithuania) or Noreika, (who already in 1984 <i>Der Spiegel</i> had named responsible for the mass murder of the Jews of Plunge). However, in Latvia’s main military cemetery, the Brothers cemetery in Riga, a national Latvian monument in Bralu Kapi, located in the north eastern part of Riga, only five kilometers from the city center Voldemārs<strong> </strong>Veis is buried. Voldemars Veis (November 7, 1899 – April 17, 1944) was a lieutenant Colonel in the Latvian army and a prominent Nazi collaborator and chief of the auxiliary police. When Latvia fell to the Germans on July 1<sup>st</sup> 1941, he broadcasted a radio call for volunteers to enlist and rid Latvia of “traitors” that included Soviet functionaries, Communists and Jews. Many enlisted, and the “cleansing” began. Veis received from the Nazis an iron cross first class and was the first Latvian to receive the Knights cross; today he lies in a prime honored spot with a fresh red rose to boot. In 1995 the President of Latvia at the time Guntis Ulmanis presented Adolfs Shilde books to Latvian schools. Adolfs Shilde was one of the founders of the Perkonkrusts (the leader was Gustavs Celmins a man who is honored in the Museum of Occupation in Riga, a museum that curiously only devotes one small corner of its museum to the Latvian Jewish community and its extermination). An interesting fact that Latvian apologists like to overlook is that The Perkonkrusts already in 1930, eleven years before the Germans invaded expressed the desire to eliminate all Jews. Today Shilde’s books can be found in any serious public library in Latvia. Shilde, a great antisemite and Nazi collaborator called for the absolute annihilation of Jews. In 1942 in his annual review of events in Zemgalle, he stated, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><span style="color: black;">“If we assess the most outstanding events of the past year, we cannot remain silent about the great joy we feel about the solution of the Jewish question in our country.” </span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">By the close of 1942 the likes of Shilde and Veis had with the Germans successfully managed to murder, using the sardine method, close to 70,000 of Latvia’s Jews and by the level of support and almost idolatrous importance the Latvian SS veterans received from young Latvians in 2012, the reading of their books has indoctrinated them well. For despite condemnation from the international community and reports from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance that in 2008 explicitly stated and once again reiterated in February 2012:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“All attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimizing in any way Nazism should be banned.”</span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"> The glorification of the Latvian SS took place on its usual date with alarming regularity, 16 March in 2012. Two months earlier, in January 2012 , many Latvian policymakers, had expressed their respect and admiration of former SS veterans. The political party “Visu Latviyyay!” announced that it was preparing a bill declaring the veterans of the SS Legion as national liberation movement fighters. Under the bill, former SS soldiers in Latvia would enjoy many benefits and advantages, in contrast to the veterans of the Allied forces who fought against Nazism. Yes, one could be excused for believing that times have not changed.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">During World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called “Aryan” populations of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered “Aryan,” they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which became the most decorated non-German Waffen SS unit receiving 13 Knight Crosses amongst them. Those Latvians of whom there were around 130,000 chose to fight for the Red army were described by Professor Vaira Vike-Freiberga sixth president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007 as “traitors.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Many Latvians and Latvian apologists including tragically senior and eminent Conservatives such as Callanan, Hague, Hannan and Pickles have stated with almost religious fervor that the Latvian SS veterans “were only following orders” are suffering from what one can only term a special kind of blindness, one that the Latvian PR team has clearly afflicted them with. When Callanan in an email to myself towed the Latvian party line and forwarded to myself their historical narratives that maintain the Latvian Waffen SS legion could not have played a role in the Holocaust, as it was not officially formed until 1943 when nearly all of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered, Denis MacShane , former Europe minister was proved correct when he stated, in already 2009, that the Tories “dig ever-deeper the black hole that Tory European parliament policy has fallen into, as the spotlight shines on the banalization of Jew-killing in the second world war and the downplaying of contemporary antisemitism, the Conservatives will regret this alliance which shames British parliamentary democracy.” And as Peter Beaumont wrote in the Guardian in the same year,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>“What is most shocking, perhaps, in this whole story is the intellectual and moral laziness of senior Tories. And the fact that they are so little troubled at being associated with a foreign party that associates itself – for whatever reason of nationalism and history – with Hitler’s Schutzstaffel: the SS.”</strong></span><i></i></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">What Beaumont could not have been aware of was that not only do the senior Tories not care about the association they have made with Hitler’s SS but also what one can only surmise as a very close contact with the Latvian ambassador in London. For, coincidentally enough, on the very same day and within a few hours of receiving an email from the Latvian ambassador in London explaining why the march should go ahead, Mr. Martin Callanan, the chief whip, at the time, of the conservatives in the European Parliament, also wrote to me expressing very similar sentiments,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“It is very unfortunate that your purpose does not seem to be to clarify the historical facts about the Latvian Legion or to honor victims of the Genocide against the Jewish population, which is why I cannot sign your petition.” </span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">A few hours after sending this email to myself Mr. Callanan publicly announced that he would be leaving his post as conservative chief whip,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong>“It has been a privilege to serve as Leader of Conservative MEPs for the last 16 months. It has been a tumultuous time for the EU and a fascinating time to lead the delegation. I am proud of the successes that Conservative MEPs are achieving and the hard work that we put in to defend the national interest. I would love to stay on but my commitment as the newly-elected chairman of our wider European grouping requires my full-time dedication. It was an enormous privilege to have been elected leader of the ECR last December.”</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">“There are no war crimes attributed to the Latvian units of the Waffen SS which was formed in 1943’, Ambassador Stiprais explained to myself on the same day (1 March 2012):<i></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Members of the notorious Arajs Komando constituted less than 1% of those enlisted and in most cases they were duly prosecuted after World War II. All the above mentioned was recognized by western allied authorities, including the UK government, when admitting former legionnaires to their territories. In a twist of irony, some were even enlisted by the US army to guard Nazi war criminals at the Nurnberg Tribunal… In light of the aforementioned I cannot see how your petition would help in bringing justice to the victims of war crimes or crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust. On the contrary, it would simply replicate some of the old but recently reheated Soviet propaganda about “those Fascist Latvians.” I can only regret that your research into the history of the Latvian legion was limited to communicating with Mr. Feigmanis (sic Mr. Feigmanis is actually a historian and has a PhD) and some left wing politicians in Latvia.” </span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">And in response to a very bold statement by Martin Bright, political editor of the Jewish Chronicle, who openly supported the campaign against the SS marches, Hannan in October 2012 chipped in,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“The charge, which had its origins in Soviet propaganda at the time when LNNK was leading the battle for independence from the USSR, is that party representatives attend an annual commemoration of the Latvian regiment of the Waffen-SS. The service is for those who fought against the Red Army, including, yes, those who volunteered to fight in German uniform. But it is attended by representatives of every party in Latvia except those which represent the Russian minority.”</span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">A substantial amount of evidence including a series of personal accounts and confirmation received from the trial of German Nazi Adolph Eichmann, supports the contention that unknown numbers of Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had indeed been previously involved in the murder of Jews as auxiliary police between 1941 and 1942. 95.6 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, just less than one in ten survived.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully organized execution using the “sardine method” also aided by Latvian police and Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Riga. After this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least half of them were murdered by mid-1942. After this blood fest the murderers, Latvian Arajs commandos and auxiliary police, subsequently and freely then joined in 1943 and 1944 the Latvian SS Legion, the 15th and 19th divisions.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">It truly does take a special kind of blindness for apologists to argue today that the Latvian Legion per se did not murder, virtually all of their Latvian compatriots; who happened to be Jewish as the Legion was formed in 1943 and 1944 and Latvian Jews were in the main murdered before the Legion was formed. Such an argument is simply an exercise in finding a loophole and a morally reprehensible one at that. It should be noted those very same executioners consisting of 16 battalions of Latvian police and the notorious Arajs Team” led by Viktor Arajs participated in 1941-1942 in the Holocaust in not only Latvia but also took an active part in the liquidating of ghettos in Belarus and Poland, as well as in the destruction of civilian villages in Belarus and Russia’s Pskov region. It is as Tony Patterson in an article in the Independent wrote, after attending the 2010 SS march, “the tip of a very dangerous iceberg that is attempting to rewrite the history books and create a false symmetry or equalization of Communist and Nazi crimes.” It is also a travesty of justice that these murderers should be honored today with the glib consent of some senior British conservatives. Not receiving proper initial rebuff from the Latvian authorities and the international community, the marches” organizers invited in 1998 heads of the diplomatic missions to attend. However, the German Ambassador to Latvia, Mr. Hurst Wiesel, indignantly rejected the invitation and Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, and French President, Jacques Chirac publicly condemned the event. Today, one needs to ask the question would the Latvian ambassador in London or President Berzins have been so outspoken of their support of the marches before 2009 and their alliance with Cameron?</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Under international pressure, in 1999, the Latvian Saeima was forced to delete March 16<sup>th</sup> from the official calendar. Yet, ultra-radical, social and political organizations have started to place the date once more into the public arena. One also needs to point out that as much as the ambassador may not like to realize this ceremonies in churches and cemeteries are also forms of honoring the deceased (whether they deserve it or not). Witness the masses held in Zagreb and Split, Croatia in December 2011 in honor of the Croatian mass murderer and leader of the Ustashe Ante Pavelic.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">On the 14 July 2009, a sort of summer Valentine’s day, perhaps as an antidote to the French revolution and certainly as a means of not having to sit at the same table as Sarkozy or Merkel, the traditional center right in the European union, the British conservatives and fortunately, not with the consent of all of their members, decided to get into bed with some strange allies, people who think that the Waffen SS and Jew killers are good bed pals. A party who are antisemitic, homophobic and xenophobic. Why would anyone wish to ally themselves with such a strange group of people? Short sighted political opportunism.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The Conservatives keen to position Britain as hostile to European integration (to further European Union integration) looked for parties who don’t like Brussels, and they ended up in the case of Latvia with Robert Zile a party with just one MP in the European parliament who associate themselves with anti-Stalinism, anti–Sovietism but also the Waffen SS. So why has there not been more uproar? Probably because the British public have been more concerned with domestic policies rather than foreign alliances. However, in a world today where the far right is rising the British public and Cameron can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to such links and close ears when Cameron is accused of being “untrustworthy” by Merkel, incenses Sarkozy or forget about the guillotine that fell on the head of Conservatives such as true blue Yorkshire MEP Edward Macmillan Scott who dared to state that “Cameron was flirting with respectable fascism.”</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">When Cameron’s Latvian liaison all kicked off David Miliband stated,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong>“David Cameron has shown not leadership but pandering, not judgment but dogma, not patriotic defense of national interest but the white flag of surrender to euro-extremists in his own party.”</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">In response to the speech Mr. Hague, shadow foreign secretary, said:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“David Miliband’s smears are disgraceful and represent a failure of his duty to promote Britain’s interests as foreign secretary. He has failed to check his facts. He has just insulted the Latvian Government, most of whose member parties have attended the commemoration of Latvia’s war dead.” </span></strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">However, as we can see now it is William Hague and his epigones such as Daniel Hannan who have failed to check their facts. And to the world’s shame not one, not a single one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence. As Dr. Efraim Zuroff director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing"><span style="color: black;">stated in the <em>Guardian</em></span></a> already in 2009</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong>“The results speak for themselves. Although there were numerous Nazi war criminals who could still be brought to trial, not a single one was ever punished in the Baltics, which had the worst record of local collaboration, and only two have been punished in democratic Eastern Europe. Although various leaders issued public apologies (usually in Israel, almost never at home), they failed to deliver in terms of prosecution, restitution, education and documentation. Even worse, Holocaust-related issues became the main cause of renewed local antisemitism, which threatened the minuscule remnant Jewish communities in these countries. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><strong></strong><strong>“For some reason, these issues, which should have been highly significant in determining the candidacy of these countries for European Union and NATO membership, were apparently not taken into account. Suddenly, these countries have the legitimacy of those memberships without having fully internalized the concomitant values. Miliband is correct in pointing out the obvious flaws of the Conservatives’ new allies. But they are only the tip of the eastern European right wing, which is determined to rewrite the history of the Second World War in a way that no self-respecting European should accept. By joining forces with parties such as Fatherland and Freedom and Law and Justice, the Conservatives are granting important legitimacy to a false narrative that seeks to whitewash war crimes and erase the heroic victory of those who saved the world from Hitler and the Nazis.”</strong></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Latvian apologists who believe that it is insulting to taint the whole Latvian legion with the same brush as those who committed atrocities in 1941 and 1942 should note it was the 15<sup>th</sup> infantry division who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the Third Reich. It was Latvian legionnaires who participated in the defense of the Reich’s Chancellery in Berlin in April-May 1945, right next to their Fuhrer Hitler to whom they swore an allegiance, defending him from Soviet attacks. Now, if that is not collaboration what is? To maintain that as the Latvian Legion guarded at the Nurnberg trials they therefore must be “kosher” or if you prefer “legit” the reality is that only a third of them did so, in the exterior ring not because they were innocent of crimes but because they spoke good German! Other rings were composed of Americans, allied troops and police. They should also question the following: Ivan Demyanyuk, like the Latvian legionnaires, also worked for the Americans immediately after the war; does this mean he is not a criminal? Finally, can one truly make a distinction between good SS and bad Mr. Hague? But even those who for you are “better” are not appropriate objects of adulation and glorification in member states of the EU and NATO.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">A return to nationalism, a rise of the right or as Denis MacShane former Europe minister has commented “a renationalism of Europe where material interests have become more important than creating a common European home” is now occurring. In Latvia today the Waffen SS marches, their glorification of Latvian SS veterans has one can conclude its roots in a desire to rebel against what they see as their oppressor Russia. Between 1939-1944 due to the Hitler Stalin pact, 1 in 20 Latvians were deported to Siberia, many ethnic Latvians suffered deeply but one must not forget that 95.6% of Latvian Jewry was murdered prior to 1944 by men who then later joined the Latvian legion. In a world, certainly not the same but reverberating echoes of 1929, it would be wise to remember the economic world crash. A time where in Germany alone there were six million unemployed coupled with a deeply insane need to find a scapegoat for economic suffering, the “Bolshevik, Marxist, greedy, Christian blood-sucking Jews” became that scapegoat within Europe. And if one cared to count the number of attacks on Jews across the world in recent years or simply browsed through the comments on You Tube pages one could be excused in concluding that the same sentiments are reoccurring again, in countries such as Latvia where ironically today hardly any Jews exist. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">To avoid such inflammatory situations it is incumbent upon the EU to ensure that any form of glorification of Nazism is stamped down tightly. If such glorification has to take place then let it take place down a dark alley with no support from state officials rather than down the main streets of an EU capital aligned with patriotic youth and politicians who should know better. As Labour Glyn Ford MEP has said such marches attract the “fascist right and the fascist lite” both are dangerous particularly when we now consider the kind of right wing extremists that exist in the EU today the Jobbik party, BNP, Marie le Pen and Golden Dawn to name but a few. Parties that in the spirit of democracy are entitled to stay and gain disturbing momentum with disillusioned, unemployed youth who social networking savvy may not have economic know how and clout but certainly know how to rally their troops of hate.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The SS was the greatest Jew killing machine the world has ever known. It didn’t contain some ranks that could be seen as “good” and for anyone and for certainly public elected figures to state that they were simply obeying orders is quite frankly grossly irresponsible and naive. One cannot as Dovid Katz of <em>Defending History.com</em> has pointed out many times be committed to human rights and pluralism and adulate Hitler’s forces at the same time. As David Cesarani, former director of the Wiener Library and historian wrote in The Guardian in 2009:</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>“By allying with right-wingers who propound this distorted view of the past, the Conservatives are implicitly giving legitimacy to their narrative. This is not just a matter of historical interpretation; it has implications for public policy today and in the future. It is a version of the past that justified discrimination against the Russian minority in post-independence Latvia. It is a national story that militates against cosmopolitanism and works, instead, in favor of an exclusive identity. To befriend these extremists is to betray the democrats and pluralists in Latvia who, since 1991, have worked so hard to tell the truth about their country’s tragic experiences under two totalitarian regimes.”</strong></span><i></i></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">Along with the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury and the English common law finding its most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence, the UK has much to feel proud of. However, a little liaison with Latvia is not on that list. Would Churchill not be rolling in his grave if he knew that such public displays of Nazi glorification were being accepted by his political heirs? </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">When Churchill declared on the 13 May 1945, “Never before in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,” he did not in the same breath say “And let us not forget to commemorate Hitler’s forces as well .” No, he did not Mr. Cameron!</span><br />
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <span class="entry-date">24 December 2012</span> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://defendinghistory.com/author/dovidkatz" title="View all posts by Defending History">Defending History</a></span> </div>
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It is the 24th of December 2012, three days after the announced end of the world. I am sitting at my desk drinking a cup of a tea. No gaping hole has suddenly swallowed me up, no heavens have collapsed, no earthquakes have caused Tsunamis to sweep coastal towns. My cat is blissfully unaware of the commotion millions of people around the world have caused on mountain tops, at sacred sites and even in a museum in Russia which for apparently only $1,500 offered salvation in the underground bunker of the former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Apparently the museum sold all 1,000 tickets in one fell swoop and I am sure now regret that they offered a 50% discount if nothing happened. <em>Tant pis</em>. It is amazing how people will believe anything today. Even some very intelligent people.<br />
<img alt="" class="alignright" height="121" src="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/shetland-pony.jpg" style="border: 1px solid black;" width="137" />The last time I looked at the international petition site I set up <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history">against the SS marches in Latvia</a>, in number one place, above any human rights cause, came the rights of Shetland ponies. I am not sure what happened to the Shetland ponies but clearly something must have, as thousands and thousands of people across the world vitriolically and vociferously protested and voted for their rights and rightly so. However, when it comes to the rights of humans the voting finger is in most cases nowhere to be seen.<br />
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As I started this campaign one question has deeply troubled me, why is it that we as humans feel natural empathy towards an animal who is being appallingly abused but not necessarily towards a human being? Gotthold Ephraim Lessing the great enlightenment thinker and close friend of Moses Mendelssohn explained it well in his use of fables. In brief he explained why fables are a more useful tool to impart moral messages than others, as the distinction between for example the perpetrator and the victim, is transparently clear. When we look at a wolf and a sheep it is crystal clear who the victim is and who is the perpetrator but when we look at two human beings, the distinction between the two becomes sometimes blurred due to the associations we attach to those two groups, rightly or wrongly.<br />
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For example, if I showed you a photograph of a dog being skinned alive in China you would scream out in horror, it is quite clear to you that the dog is a victim of a human perpetrator and that this act is disgusting however, if I show you today a photograph of victims of Nazism who happened to be Jewish being herded into a ghetto for subsequent murder and if I showed you photographs of how that action was part of a whole system that murdered, tortured, raped, humiliated at each stage, butchered each and every last member of the targeted ethnicity, with the perpetrators jumping upon the bodies for anything useful for domestic life, and if you saw a picture of a powerful man dressed in Nazi uniform or a picture of men with guns by their sides aiming at children, babies, old men, young men, old women , young women, people defenseless, it will be quite clear in your mind who is the perpetrator and who is the victim and naturally your sympathy will go to the victim.<br />
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So, now I must ask the question <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/new/34584">what has happened this very year, in 2012, when I show you a picture of a box that contains the remains of Juozas Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis) who was the Nazi puppet prime minister of Lithuania</a> and signed a piece of paper (among others) confirming the order for all the Jewish citizens of his city, Kaunas, to be relocated to and incarcerated in a ghetto within four weeks. Many of the atrocities described above actually started on his watch. Another of his early orders, in June 1941, was for the setting up of a “concentration camp” for “the Jews” which was actually the Seventh Fort torture and murder site near Kaunas.<br />
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Believe it or not: In 2012, the Lithuanian prime minister and culture minister personally signed off on the funding for the repatriation and reburial with full honors, amidst an array of glittering ceremonies, of the 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius (Brazaitis).</div>
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So what do you feel when you see his remains being carried with great aplomb, to be buried with high honors, only this year, not ten years ago, not twenty years ago, not fifty years ago but no in 2012 in an EU and NATO country, Lithuania, a country that in only a few short months, in the course of 2013, will hold the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union?<br />
You do not feel horror? You perhaps do not feel horror and disgust because suddenly your image of what a perpetrator and victim are has been turned on its head. You cannot understand how it is possible that such honoring of such a man could happen and therefore when certain great professors and other “Useful Idiots” from the West, who have been <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/when-a-picture-tells-a-story">lauded and showered with trinkets and titles and welcomed with champagne by the Lithuanian government</a>, people who literally copy-and-paste a historic narrative that the PR team of the Lithuanian government had given them to distribute, you mistakenly believe that the division between perpetrator and victim is not as clear cut as you had thought. As Lessing wrote,<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“And how many people are so widely known in history that they need only to be mentioned so that at once the notion of the way of thinking that is particular to them, as well as of their other properties, is immediately awakened in everyone?”</span><br />
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And so as this process takes on momentum your ability to discern between simple right and wrong changes. Imperceptibly. The values that you believed you have shift imperceptibly to the point where without you realizing it you have no clear values anymore. And that is how moral decline and the decline of reason begin their slippery slide.<br />
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You may only see the box being placed into the ground with priests, soldiers and dignitaries and even famous historians next to it, but the little box contains the remains of a man who contributed to the separation from society, humiliation, deprivation of rights, torture, rape, murder and mutilation of his own citizens who happened to have been born into one of his country’s long-standing minorities.<br />
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When an EU government defames you, it sure sticks. From Arad’s biography on Wikipedia after defamation by the same Lithuanian government that tricked him into joining its red-brown commission in the first place. Why is there still no public apology, in 2012?</div>
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And when you suddenly realize this you wonder why a government would do this in 2012, a government that will hold the presidency of the European Council in a few months’ time, a government that wishes to be seen as Western. And you wonder how it is possible that this government will be allowed by the EU to take the presidency next year and you think to yourself is it really true that this government has criminalized Holocaust survivors such as the former director of Yad Vashem Yitzhak Arad, who is a leading historian of the Lithuanian Holocaust, or 91 year old <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/httpdefendinghistory-comprague-declarationopposition/19394">Dr. Rachel Margolis</a> who discovered and published the diary of a Christian witness to tens of thousands of murders by local “patriots” of the Jews of Vilna and its area.<br />
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And you think quite understandably it can’t be true, there must be other reasons why these people were accused of war crimes, they must have done<em> something</em>. And when I tell you that the Lithuanian government recently spent untold thousands of euros to be able to set up <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/its-not-just-about-tuskulenai-peace-park/39900">a “Peace Park” where not one or two Jew shooters are honored but hundreds</a>, you think to yourself that can’t be true, there must be another side to the story, there must be other reasons. And when I tell you that since 2008 the Lithuanian government allows not one but two Nazi marches to go ahead in the year, each on one of the nation’s two independence days (16 February and 11 March) of all days, accompanied with swastikas (just an innocent ancient Baltic symbol, says <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-court-approves-display-of-swastikas-in-public/389">the 2010 Lithuanian law</a>) you suddenly think, Oh it happens everywhere.<br />
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The “Lithuanian swastika” (with added lines, top left of middle flag) featured prominently in this year’s state-sanctioned neo-Nazi parade in the heart of the capital city, Vilnius, on the nation’s independence day, March 11th.</div>
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However, think again. Does any government allow on Independence Day neo-Nazi marches to take place in the heart of the nation’s capital? For what is the indirect message being given out by that government? it is either we can’t control our neo-Nazis and therefore we give them what they want in the spirit of democracy. Or: we quietly support such action (in addition to the lavish events to honor Western academics hungry for accolades), it is useful in drumming up nationalistic feeling.<br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/leonidas-donskis">Prof. Leonidas Donskis</a>, a Lithuanian MEP, a brave man with high integrity, wrote me that he agreed with me “99%” on the issues raised <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgiryt%C4%97-liau%C5%A1kien%C4%97-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">in my petition</a>. Whether the Lithuanian government and its apologists wish to admit this fact or not, to allow neo-Nazi marches to take place on Independence Day the indirect message also being giving out to the wider world is, tragically, that we support such xenophobia, such antisemitism, such hatred of humanity.<br />
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Knighted in Vilnius in Jan 2012 by the president of Lithuania: for helping the PR repackaging of Baltic Holocaust policies for naive Western audiences?</div>
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The <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgiryt%C4%97-liau%C5%A1kien%C4%97-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">petition</a>, it should be noted, attracted the signatories of more people around the world than those who would attend the “No Simple Stories, Part 2” conference shamefully co-hosted by UCL and the Lithuanian Embassy. It should be noted that UCL allowed Professor Antony Polonsky, an eminent historian rightly respected for his vast achievements in Polish history — and<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/antony-polonsky-returns-to-brandeis-with-lithuanian-presidents-cross-of-the-officer-of-the-order-for-helping-the-baltic-states-holocaust-pr-campaign-in-the-west/29890"> one recently curiously knighted by the Lithuanian government in effect for betraying the historic truth and betraying the victims and survivors of the Holocaust</a>, a man whose latest book was being launched at the conference and a man who does not work at UCL — the right <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/prof-polonsky-recipient-of-lithuanian-presidents-award-turns-down-monica-lowenbergs-request-for-five-minutes-to-read-her-petition-at-ucls-lithuanian-government-sponsored-conference-in-london/47209">to refuse my father and me the right to read</a> out <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgiryt%C4%97-liau%C5%A1kien%C4%97-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">the petition</a> at the commencement of the conference. A <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/london-fog/12074">similar petition, organized back in 2011</a> by Professor Danny Ben-Moshe, a Londoner who lives in Melbourne, had actually been read out the year before at part 1 of the conference in 2011 and a petition that had also been signed by one of the UCL lecturers. But not this year. What happened between 2011 and 2012? The question that has to now remain is what happened to free speech <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/ucl-manipulated">in a major British institution, namely UCL</a>?<br />
A few days after the petition was delivered to the Lithuanian embassy in London, the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/within-days-of-monica-lowenbergs-petition-vilnius-municipality-tries-to-move-march-11th-2013-neo-nazi-march-awar-from-city-center/47440">Vilnius Municipality issued a press release</a> proposing that next year the neo-Nazi march on Independence Day be rerouted to a lesser city center street, the equivalent of say an Oxford Street march being forced into Duke Street. I suppose an improvement but yet to be seen. At the end of the day the march is still scheduled for Independence Day. At a time when right wing extremism is not walking through Europe but sweeping through it, where in Greece alone, once the cradle of democracy, 9% of the vote is given to the Golden Dawn party, a Neo Nazi faction, if to now still allow today a neo Nazi march to occur on independence day, if such action is not grossly irresponsible I would like to know what is.<br />
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And yet despite all of this, why do you not protest, why do you not say no? Perhaps because outside of Lithuania and particularly in Israel and in London the face that the Lithuanian government gives to the public at large at glittering events, at conferences with established British universities, at book launches at book weeks is of peaceful respectability in designer suits, with adulation for acquiescent Jewish dignitaries. Not skinheads with jackboots. Nevertheless, this same government, though given the opportunity to simply write a letter of apology to Rachel Margolis, a lady who has even won the public support of <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/women-of-courage-rachel-margolis-2236081.html">Gordon Brown</a>, has still not found it fit to write to this elderly 91 year old lady and say “Sorry, and you can come and visit Vilnius any day.” You see as <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/94132/lithuanian-holocaust-event-duplicitous%E2%80%99">the <em>Jewish Chronicle</em></a> quoted in a recent article, the Lithuanian government’s behavior has to be held into question if it is not to be seen as “duplicitous” as clearly there is a discrepancy between what is seen abroad and what is done at home.<br />
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So, after all this you now ask yourself quite correctly, how have these things been allowed to happen. It is actually very simple. These things have been allowed to happen because Lithuania which had perhaps the highest percentage (not absolute number of course, it is a small country) of collaborators in the Holocaust, in Europe, and certainly had the highest percentage of its Jews killed in all of Europe (96.4% of Lithuanian Jewry) has to date not found it proper to punish a single collaborator but rather instead of prosecuting such criminals prefers <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=34584">to see them as “patriots” and honor them</a>. It is as simple as that.<br />
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In view of this fact, the Lithuanian government would be wise to realize that until they say sorry and stop, apart from the issues listed in the petition, the honoring of mass murderers and equating of Nazi crimes with Soviet crimes today, the victims and descendants of people who were victims of Nazism in particular but concerned citizens as well, will not be able to trust the Lithuanian government and certainly not a government that hero worships in 2012 mass murderers of a kind that defeat description. It is as simple as that.<br />
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At the end of the day the Lithuanian government, unlike the German government or the Italian have not found it necessary to say sorry. It is as simple as that.<br />
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Instead the Lithuanian government like the Latvian sees the Lithuanians and the Latvians as having been the victims of the Soviets and the Nazis, to the extent that a Lithuanian foreign minister had absolutely no qualms when he publicly announced that the only difference between Hitler and Stalin was the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/support-defendinghistory-com/613">size of their moustaches</a>. You see, yes, Lithuania like Latvia was invaded by the Germans and the Soviets and their past is troubled and of course the voices of innocent Latvians and Lithuanians should be heard, people who also suffered terribly. But it is of utmost importance that these two Baltic countries in particular, admit that they collaborated with the Nazis and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people who happened to be Jews, who had no knowledge in the main of Communism and did not drink champagne with Stalin. The <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/prague-declaration/opposition">Prague Declaration of 2008</a> “On European Conscience and Communism,” a document that <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/21392/europe-must-focus-baltic-hate">John Mann MP correctly pointed out was “sinister”</a> and one that the Lithuanian government have been catapulting with great rigor into Europe, is indeed a sinister document, it paves the way for people who committed terrible crimesto get off the hook and excuse the inexcusable, by way of the red-equals-brown equation that itself enables the utter confusion of perpetrators and victims during the Holocaust.<br />
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The officials who organized the recent UCL conference seemed hell-bent on ensuring that not one conference goer would even know about the 2012 response, the <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/coming-soon-2-3/44534">Seventy Years Declaration of 2012</a>. Why this freakish attempt to control information in the information age?<br />
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Now you may say, “Oh all these terrible things in the Holocaust happened such a long time ago, it happened, it is past, let’s live in peace, let’s make up” and you are right that it is important that we live in peace and it is right that we make up when true apologies have been given. Yet I need to remind you of two images and your response. The picture of the dog being skinned alive in China and the picture of the box of remains of the 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister taken in the very same year, your first response was of horror and your second was of confusion.<br />
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You see, when governments and their pawns decide to distort historical narratives to meet political agendas then imperceptibly, it is not the beginning of the end of the world but if left unchallenged it is the beginning of the erosion of European conscience and the end of moral reason.<br />
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Some of the participants in the December 17th protest at the Lithuanian Embassy in London.<br />
On Monday 17 December, 2012 at 10.30 AM, my 90 year old Holocaust survivor father Ernst Loewenberg, a native of Halle an der Saale who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, went to the Lithuanian Embassy in London, SW1 to deliver a major petition.<br />
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At 10 AM, a small group of protesters met Ernst outside Pimlico Underground Station in London and quietly accompanied him to the Lithuanian Embassy for 10:30 AM. As the Lithuanian embassy had not seen it fit to respond to an email by me, his daughter, of 1 December 2012, an email that politely requested that the Lithuanian government address the issues raised within the petition before the conference, a conference that later that day was co-hosted by the Lithuanian Embassy and UCL, we arrived unannounced.<br />
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The petition which in little under two weeks had acquired the signatories of over 300 people worldwide, including the names of eminent politicians, scholars, Holocaust survivors, educationalists and concerned citizens was delivered by Ernst along with letters from: Dr. Hans Coppi, respected historian and son of the famous resistance fighters Hans and Hilde Coppi; Ruth Barnett, Kindertransportee, educationalist and campaigner for the rights of ethnic minorities; David Cukier, second generation Holocaust survivor and former UCL student; Budd Margolis, cousin of Dr. Rachel Margolis, the 91 year old Holocaust survivor who is one of the Jewish survivors “investigated” by the Lithuanian government for “war crimes” for the “crime” of having survived the ghetto to join the anti-Nazi resistance. Dr. Margolis is afraid to return to Lithuania one last time for a visit to her home town; Professor Gert Weisskirchen a German Social Democrat MP who gave his personal regrets and the German embassy’s regrets to Ernest Loewenberg for being unable to accompany him to the Lithuanian Embassy that day.<br />
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The protesters who accompanied Ernst Loewenberg and myself included: Mark Davidson, photojournalist and campaigner for the rights of the disabled in the UK, who covered the Paralympics for various nationals; Panos Fellas, a campaigner for the rights of the Roma and Sinti community in Corinth, Greece; Irene Fick, second generation Holocaust survivor of non-Jewish parents; Rosemarie Lowenberg, wife of Ernst Loewenberg; Fabio Perselli, editor, photographer and son of former Italian diplomat who was put into a German prisoner of war camp.</div>
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H.E. Ambassador Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene <br />
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Exzellenz, sehr geehrte Frau Botschafterin, <br />
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Ihnen wird heute eine Petition übergeben. In sieben Punkten werden Tatsachen festgehalten, die jede Tatsache für sich, jeder Überlebende des Holocaust nur als einen Angriff auf seine Integrität und auf sein persönliches Leid verstehen kann. Jeder Einzelne, der um die furchtbaren Taten der Nazi-Diktatur weiß, muss sich wehren gegen jeglichen Versuch, den unerhörten Mord an den europäischen Juden zu relativieren. Deutsche haben in deutschem Namen den industriellen Massenmord exekutieren wollen. Dieser schrecklichen Wahrheit hat sich Deutschland stellen müssen. Diese Wahrheit darf durch nichts relativiert werden. Neo-Nazis warten nur auf eine Möglichkeit, dieses Menschheitsverbrechen mit anderen Verbrechen gleich zu setzen. Könnte es dann soweit kommen, dass Hitler im Nachhinein triumphiert? <br />
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Alle sieben in der Petition enthaltenen Tatsachen unterstütze ich. <br />
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Ebenso dringend wie herzlich bitte ich Sie inständig darum, diese Petition der neuen Regierung Litauens zu übermitteln. Damit verknüpfe ich die Hoffnung, dass die neue litauische Regierung jeden Eindruck zurückweisen wird, dass in der litauischen Gesellschaft sich rechtsextremistische Tendenzen verstärken. Unsere gemeinsame europäische Aufgabe ist es, jede Form des Antisemitismus in dem Augenblick zu bekämpfen, wenn er erkennbar wird. <br />
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Today you will receive a petition, listing seven facts. Holocaust survivors will perceive every single one of these facts as an attack on their integrity and bringing their personal distress to the fore yet again. Each person who knows of the terrible acts of the Nazi dictatorship, has to oppose every single attempt to diminish the outrageous murder of European Jews. Germans sought to carry out this industrialised mass murder in the name of Germans. This is the dreadful truth Germany had to face and this truth must not, by any means, be diminished. Neonazis are in waiting for any opportunity <br />
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I support all seven facts listed in the petition. <br />
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I implore you, urgently and with all my heart, to send this petition to the new Lithuanian government and I hope that the new Lithuanian government will actively work against any notion that right extremist tendencies are encouraged in Lithuanian society. It is our common European task to oppose any form of anti-Semitism without fail immediately it is expressed. <br />
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Yours sincerely <br />
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I write to you concerning the forthcoming conference to be hosted by UCL called ‘Simple Stories’ where the conference co-sponsored by your government is attempting to revise the accepted historical narrative concerning the events of 1939-1945 in Lithuania . In so doing it is encouraging divisive extremist fascist and communist political opinion in your country, which as a EU and NATO member, it surely behoves Lithuania to seek to eliminate. Rather it should be incumbent on the Government of Lithuania to discourage prejudicial politics against all its minorities including the small Jewish minority in the country, and to respect human rights that were so lacking in the war years between 1939-45. However your government’s moves to rewrite established historical facts concerning the holocaust and the impact on the Lithuanian people including the Jews is little short of an affront and an abuse to all the people who lived through those tragic times. . <br />
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Your Government’s sponsorship of this conference in which these revisionist narratives will be expounded is yet another blow to the memories of those who suffered death and deprivation at the hands of, and by the actions of a section of the Lithuanian Authorities and Foreign External Invasionary forces. That such views should not be expounded as historical fact is clearly obvious, but cynical manipulation of Jewish participants (mainly the very same Holocaust survivors and Jewish authorities not fully comprehending of this prejudicial strand of revisionism is to be abhorred. <br />
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I therefore urge you to re-consider your sponsorship of this conference at UCL until there can be assurance of a clear statement that as a responsible member of the EU the politics of hate and extremism have no place in our shared historical narrative and that the Lithuanian Government in its endeavours should do all it can to respect historical truth and unashamedly support non prejudicial politics, but rather the dissemination of historical truth in accord with established historical facts understood the world over, and within the auspices of the EU and its academic institutions. <br />
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I therefore appeal to you to relay this message to your government to reconsider carefully the path it is taking by following the above described course of action and return it back into the mainstream of historical and political opinion held by EU members and other distinguished international governments and organisations. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">David Cukier, a child of two Holocaust Survivors, studied Pharmacology at University College London, 1975-1978, where he also participated in some Jewish and Yiddish studies activities. He has released to <em>Defending History </em>for publication his letter to the president and provost of UCL, Professor Malcolm Grant, expressing concern over the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department hosting a <em>second </em>Lithuanian government sponsored one-sided Holocaust conference.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">In his covering letter to <em>DH.com, </em>Mr. Cukier adds: </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">“My concern relates to the personal experiences related to me by my parents and extended family who lived in many countries across Europe during the war, and never failed to stress the importance of relating the truth of what happened during those years. This is what is at stake when we confront Holocaust deniers and Holocaust revisionists, whether individuals , governments or academics. It also relates to present day political movements and governments who deny the authenticity of the Holocaust as a means of de facto delegitimization of the national aspirations of the Jewish people.”</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">London, 29 November 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Provost</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Subject: UCL Conference on December 17th and 18th 2012: Jews and Non-Jews in Lithuania: Coexistence, Cooperation, Violence</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Professor Grant,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I write to you in about a matter of great concern to me regarding an event due to held at UCL on Monday and Tuesday, December 17th and 18th 2012, namely an “International conference” on the topic “Jews and non-Jews in Lithuania: Coexistence, Cooperation, Violence” to be held under the auspices of the University.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My concern as a former student is that for the second time in two years UCL is about to make a second grave error by hosting this conference which is designed to foster and develop a revisionist historical perspective, intended to re-write the objective historical narrative established by many years of careful and high quality historical research by many academics of the highest credentials all over the world, on the well known and established history of the Jews in the Baltics before and during World War II.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The impetus for this conference is funding from the government of Lithuania that sees its political interest in revising the historical narrative and factual accuracy of the history of the Baltics during World War II for its own current politically expedient policies. That this should happen a mere seventy odd years after the horrific events of the Holocaust in Europe, and under the auspices of UCL which has throughout its history been a beacon institution for researching the truth and determining the facts, is tragic and potentially a blemish on the reputation of UCL.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I call upon you as the Accountable Officer of UCL to examine the hosting of this conference and the authenticity of the historical research that is to be presented. I also urge you to examine the motivation for the funding for this conference, whether advisedly and legitimately sourced for establishing objective history, for the purposes of adding to the body of historical research, or rather, as it seems, actually designed to misrepresent, and develop a re-writing of historical truth for misguided political purposes. Surely such a position is an untenable position for UCL to uphold, and warrants careful inquiry by you, on the advisability of holding under the College’s auspices this planned conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Regards,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">David Cukier</span><br />
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David Cukier’s Follow-up Letter to the Provost of University College London</h1>
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<em>The following is the text of the author’s letter today to the provost of University College London, following up on his <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=46297">earlier communication</a> of 29 November.</em><br />
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<li>From: David Cukier</li>
<li>To: “provost@ucl.ac.uk” <provost@ucl.ac.uk></li>
<li>Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:38 PM</li>
<li><strong>Subject: UCL Conference on December 17th and 18th 2012: Jews and Non-Jews in Lithuania: Coexistence, Cooperation, Violence</strong></li>
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Dear Professor Grant,<br />
I attach an <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/?p=46297">earlier communication</a> to you in which I asked you to consider the wisdom of hosting the above conference at UCL as a former student who takes great pride in having studied at UCL and the objectives and principles established by its founders.<br />
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One of those principles is freedom of thought and expression in the pursuit of truth. I believe that Monica Lowenberg has contacted your office on the hosting of this conference and requested permission to speak for a brief amount of time, no more than five minutes, to express a view concerning the dangers of historical revisionism which the Lithuanian government appears to be engaged in, as recognised by many EU governments and British and EU parliamentarians. The cynical sponsorship, some might say, of this conference by the Lithuanian Government for their partisan political ends should not go unchallenged especially in an academic setting with a distinguished past, particularly in the field of Hebrew and Judaic studies.<br />
I appeal to you both in the name of fairness and for maintaining the good reputation of UCL, and the principles on which it was founded to allow Monica Lowenberg the opportunity to express the disquiet felt by a large section if not the overwhelming majority of the Jewish lay public in this country and abroad, the fears they harbour concerning the development of this strand of historical revisionism sponsored by the Lithuanian Government particularly in resurrecting extreme ideologies for politically expedient motives.<br />
Refusing to let Monica speak and express an alternate view will be seen as another insult to the historical memory of countless Holocaust victims and a signal suppression of freedom of expression in an academic institution whose original purpose was to uncover truth and give freedom to expression and open learning, to the widest possible constituency. I would have thought that such a request is a minimal request of your good office and a confirmation that all valid and cogent views are welcome at UCL to all participants, both invited lecturers and general participants alike, that no one is excluded from expressing their view simply because it is inconvenient or likely to embarrass the sponsors or funding partners.<br />
One again I urge you to allow Monica Lowenberg access on your authority, and to ensure that she is given the opportunity to speak and make her points to the conference in the name of simple decency, and allow her the freedom to express the wider Jewish Community’s concern on the very matters that constitute the agenda for the conference.<br />
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Kind Regards,<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">David Cukier</span><br />
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<strong>Email from Monica Lowenberg to UCL Provost</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From: </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;">Monica Lowenberg </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"> Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:45 PM Subject: FAO The Provost, UCL, regarding Free Speech being not permitted by Prof Polonsky, refusal to allow Monica Lowenberg to read out petition To: provost@ucl.ac.uk </span></div>
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Dear Professor Grant, <br />
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Please find pasted below correspondence between myself and Dr Francois Guenest of UCL and Prof Polonsky who together have organised with the Lithuanian government this years Part 2 conference </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;">'No Simple Stories' </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Arial; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">to be held next week 17-19 Dec at the Lithuanian embassy in London and UCL. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I requested that I read out a petition that hundreds of people across the world, scholars, survivors and non agree with, a petition that disagrees with Polonsky's and the Lithuanian government's interpretation of events and action. Polonsky as designated organiser has refused me the opportunity to read out the petition. <br />
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Serious questions have to now be raised about the conference, its agenda and UCL ie Has Polonsky's knighthood by the Lithuanian government and the launch of his latest book at the conference prevented him operating in the spirit of democracy? By refusing me to read out the petition which would take simply 5 minutes of conference time with my 90- year old Holocaust survivor father present, a petition which hundreds of people across the world, scholars, survivors and non agree with, a petition that disagrees with Polonsky's and the Lithuanian government's interpretation of events and actions, free speech can no longer be heard in an established British institution. <br />
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One can now only conclude that UCL a major London university is now violating BASIC WESTERN principles of open discussion on the orders of the PR department of a far right Baltic republic. . The issue at stake here is not this or that point in Professor Antony Polonsky's book or biography. IT is that he has forbidden a petition that makes constructive requests of the Lithuanian government. <br />
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Yours sincerely, <br />
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Monica Lowenberg </span></div>
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UCL Hebrew-Jewish Studies Dept Rejects Monica Lowenberg’s Request for Five Minutes to Read Petition at Lithuanian Government Sponsored Conference</h1>
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London observers were wondering whether <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/antony-polonsky-returns-to-brandeis-with-lithuanian-presidents-cross-of-the-officer-of-the-order-for-helping-the-baltic-states-holocaust-pr-campaign-in-the-west/29890">the medal Professor Antony Polonsky received earlier this year from the president of Lithuania for his PR work</a> for the Lithuanian government may have something to do with his denial of Monica Lowenberg’s request, asking for five minutes to read out at next week’s conference <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgiryt%C4%97-liau%C5%A1kien%C4%97-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">her petition to the Lithuanian government, proposing constructive solutions to the issues at hand</a>. The petition has to date garnered over 250 signatories from two dozen countries. The following is the correspondence, which started with Ms. Lowenberg’s appeal to Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert and Dr. Francois Guesnet. Dr. Guesnet, the Corob Reader in Jewish History at UCL is one of the conference coordinators on behalf of the Lithuanian government funded institutions financing the conference. Holocaust survivors consulted cannot understand why safe and secure academics who hold high posts at Western institutions should so fear “even to give five minutes for somebody <em>else </em>to come and disagree” with the conference’s pay-masters in the freedom of the British capital.</div>
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UCL and its Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies find themselves challenged by a simple question:</div>
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Will freedom of speech and respect for the views of the Holocaust Survivor community be respected to the extent of five minutes being granted for the reading of a petition to the Lithuanian government, or does Lithuanian government financial sponsorship preclude the granting of the request?</div>
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The following email correspondence, none of it bearing on personal matters, was released today by Ms Lowenberg’s office in London, and is published below with permission from her office.</div>
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One of the emails, from Professor Polonsky, contains a lengthy and standard restatement of Lithuanian government talking points (the “Liekis talking points” version) somewhat tailored for Jewish audiences. Like any set of talking points, each relates somehow, often obliquely to the point made in the petition, without confronting it head on. The opposing points are view are expressed in Ms. Lowenberg’s petition.</div>
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<li>Date: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:58 PM</li>
<li>Subject: Request from Monica Lowenberg</li>
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Dear Professor Rapoport-Albert,<br />
As head of the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Dept at UCL and as someone who was a signatory on last year’s petition presented to the Lithuanian embassy by Prof Danny Ben Moshe and Dr Denis MacShane MP, I would be grateful if you would view the petition I have set up on Change.org:<br />
<a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation</a><br />
I naturally hope you will sign the petition and bring it to the attention of colleagues and students, but I write today on another matter.<br />
I respectfully request permission to take five minutes of the opening session to read out the petition to the conference, hopefully in the company of my father, who is a 90 year old Holocaust Survivor.<br />
After reading internet reports that Professor Donskis was moderating the opening session, I wrote to him. He kindly explained to me that I need to contact university or embassy authorities to gain permission to read out the permission to the opening session of the conference. Hence I now appeal to you. I will be quick and polite, and will leave after five minutes, or less.<br />
I hope this is possible.<br />
I look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your help in this matter.<br />
With kind regards,<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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<li>From: Monica Lowenberg</li>
<li>Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 1:24 PM</li>
<li>To: Guesnet, Francois</li>
<li>Subject: Request from Monica Lowenberg</li>
<li> 12 December 2012</li>
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Dear Dr Guesnet,<br />
I am of the understanding from my colleague Dr Saul Isroff, who has already spoken to Prof Michael Berkowitz, that you are the organiser for this year’s second UCL conference of ’No Simple Stories’ a conference, generously sponsored by the Lithuanian embassy for the second time in two years running.<br />
On Sunday last, I was in email contact with Professor Donskis. Literature circulated, stated that he was the ‘Moderator’ for the conference and therefore I respectfully asked him if he would permit me in his position as ‘Moderator’ the opportunity to read out, with my 90 year old Holocaust survivor father present, a petition I have set up and read out at the opening session on Tuesday 18 December 2012 at 10am, at JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL. Prof Donskis kindly explained that I need to contact university or embassy authorities to gain permission to read out the petition as he is not the ‘moderator’. Hence I now appeal to you as organiser of the UCL conference.<br />
My petition:<br />
<a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation">http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation</a><br />
UCL as a university of high standing and academic merit has clearly no political interest in organising this controversial conference; however, it is quite evident from actions taken by the Lithuanian government in the past two years, in particular, that they do. When questioned whether my accusations of the Lithuanian government within the petition were false, Prof Donskis very bravely did not deny these claims but rather agreed with them ’99%’ .<br />
I am truly sorry to place you in this difficult situation but as I am certain you are aware, it is of intellectual, political and ethical integrity that as organiser of this conference you arrange that I am allowed to now speak and read out the petition at the beginning of the conference. UCL, an internationally respected university of high repute must not allow its good name to be damaged. As you recognised the importance of Prof Danny Ben Moshe reading out at the opening ceremony of last year’s UCL Part 1 No Simple Stories conference, a petition dated 7 February 2011, which I note your colleague Professor Rapoport-Albert signed , so I trust you will recognise the moral imperative of me being allowed to speak as well. In the light of the Lithuanian government not decreasing their agenda to excuse the inexcusable but rather intensify it, with the reburial of their puppet prime minister, only this year amidst glittering events and conferences, a man who signed the forms for the Jews of Kovno to be put into a ghetto, I am certain that even though this request places you in an exceptionally difficult situation, you recognise as organiser why it is morally important that you permit me to read out the petition at the beginning of the conference with my father, Holocaust survivor Ernst Loewenberg, whose family were in the main all murdered, present.<br />
I would like to assure you that I will be quick, polite and take but five minutes. One of your colleagues Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith, who only this year on the 10 November conducted for my father, mother and myself a Kaddish service for 35 members of our family who perished in the Holocaust, can testify that I will be polite.<br />
Please do let me know your agreement to this request before the close of this coming Friday. I will also aim to call you.<br />
With kind regards and thanks for your consideration of this important moral issue,<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Antony Polonsky wrote:<br />
Dear Ms Lowenberg,<br />
Francois Guesnet has passed on to me your message since I am the organiser of the academic conference to launch volume 25 of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry which has as its theme ‘Jews in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1772’. This volume of Polin is the first to contain a core of articles devoted to the history of the Jews in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (in Yiddish, Lite) in the modern period. That this is now possible is the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of an independent Lithuania, which was followed by a revival of many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities which languished in the conditions of Soviet censorship. One of the areas which benefited from the new freedom was the history and study of the Lithuanian Jewish past. The Holocaust and Soviet rule completely destroyed earlier Jewish creativity. During the entire Soviet period between 1940 and 1990, Jewish studies did not exist as an academic subject in Lithuania, as was the case elsewhere in the Soviet Union.<br />
The revived interest in the Jewish past of the country not only evoked scholarly interest but also presented Lithuanian society with a challenge. Jewish studies in Lithunia is a central topic in the difficult conversation on the history of Jewish-Lithuanian relations and is closely linked to the broader transformation of historical memory of the post-Soviet era and the problem of coming to terms with the widespread local collaboration in Lithuania during the Holocaust. This complex and painful issue was aired in a number of international scholarly conferences in the 1990s. which also saw the establishment in Lithuania of a number of academic institutions devoted to the Jewish past in Lithuania.<br />
Initially the two sides were very far apart but groups of scholars soon began to emerge in Lithuania, in Israel, Europe and North America who began to investigate in a dispassionate and scholarly manner the history of once great community of which now only small traces remained. New works appeared on the anti-Judaic policies of the Catholic Church and the emergence of modern Lithuanian antisemitism, the development of Jewish-Lithuanian relations between the wars and the social and political impact of the crises which led to foreign occupations in the 1940s. The years of the First Republic (1918-1940) came to be seen as a significant period of transformation: the first modern polity dominated by ethnic Lithuanians decisively impacted inter-communal relations, especially those between Lithuanians and Jews.<br />
The chapters in this volume reflect this new research and deal with a number of different themes: the specific character of Lithuanian Jewry, the way relations between Jews and Lithuanians developed in the years after 1772, first under tsarist rule and then in independent Lithuania, the devastating impact on the Jewish community and on Lithuanian-Jewish relations of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of the country between 1940 and 1944, the further negative consequences on Jewish life of the reoccupation of the country by the Soviets between 1944 and 1990 and finally the slow revival of Jewish life since the independence and the attempts which have been made since then both to investigate the Lithuanian-Jewish past and to come to terms with the difficult legacy of the Holocaust.<br />
Among the contributors to the volume are leading Jewish historians of the area as well as a number of Lithuanian historians who have adopted a critical attitude to the Lithuanian past. Several of them will be participating in the conference which will enable fruitful exchanges on the many difficult topics discussed in the volume. Accordingly we do not think your reading a statement at the conference will serve any useful purpose. The conference at University College is open to the public and members of the public are welcome to listen to the presentations and ask questions if they wish to so.<br />
In response to the specific points you raise in your petition.<br />
1. The attempt to prosecute Yitshak Arad for alleged war-crimes and to question Rachel Margolis and Fanya Brantsovskaya in regard to this accusation was clearly misguided and has been dropped by the Lithuanian prosecutor’s office, partly under pressure from some of those participating in the conference. I facilitated the translation and publication of Rachel Margolis’s memoirs in English to which I contributed a long introduction.<br />
2. The reinterment of Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis provoked a widespread debate in Lithuania and led to an open letter to the government from many leading intellectuals in the country. It read “We the undersigned citizens and descendants of citizens of Lithuania strongly object to the official honoring of Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis, head of the Provisional Government of Lithuania that was active from June–August, 1941 during Lithuania’s occupation by Nazi Germany by the Government and Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, officials of the City of Kaunas, and other dignitaries. In June 1941 many Lithuanians longed for any opportunity to liberate themselves from the Stalinist occupation. The motives, words and deeds of those who joined the anti-Soviet uprising must be judged individually. Alas, the uprising was marked by anti-Semitic rhetoric, pro-Nazi proclamations, and violence against innocent civilians. The Provisional Government was unquestionably inspired and headed by the Lithuanian Activist Front, whose anti-Semitic and authoritarian program is well-documented. The Government‘s rhetoric, actions and cooperation with German authorities, inescapably compromise its legitimacy and moral status. As Acting Prime Minister, Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis cannot avoid responsibility for its activities. Documents of the time show that the Provisional Government led by Ambrazavicius-Brazaitis did not distance itself from the pro-Nazi policies actively supported by Kazys Škirpa‘s Lithuanian Activist Front. Moreover, the Provisional Government declared its willingness to contribute to the organization of Europe on “New Foundations”as formulated by Nazi Germany. It is worth recalling that the Provisional Government identified as “enemies” even some members of Lithuania’s intelligentsia, for example, some of the faculty of Vytautas Magnus University.<br />
A government which consigned an entire class of its citizenry to discrimination and persecution, and then subsequently failed to defend it from mass killings conducted by an occupying power and those collaborating with it, cannot properly claim to be defending freedom. The putative benefits of the Provisional Government’s unsuccessful attempts to reassert Lithuanian sovereignty are vastly overshadowed and defiled by the inhumane words and deeds to which it lent its authority. And what would be the value of sovereignty bought at the price of the blood of the innocent?<br />
The recent state-sponsored commemoration of Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis’s life and legacy that took place on the occasion of his reburial was an egregious error of moral judgment. It exalted a would-be leader who showed no regret or remorse for having failed the most basic test of principled leadership: standing up for justice and for the innocent.<br />
Family and friends of the deceased have the right to a private ceremony. However, by publicly honoring Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis and providing funding for the commemoration, the Lithuanian Government and those public officials and dignitaries who took part exacerbate the confusion among many regarding the values upon which the Republic of Lithuania is founded.<br />
Public officials who turned down invitations to the commemoration should be congratulated.<br />
But we must do more. We must firmly and unequivocally state that:<br />
- we deplore the persecution and destruction of innocent Lithuanian citizens and others that took place during the tenure of the Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis Provisional Government;<br />
- a critical evaluation of the Provisional Government’s words and deeds is not a matter of interest to only one or another group or organization, but a matter of principle for all Lithuanians;<br />
- in Lithuania the rights and dignity of all must be defended; and<br />
- there is no honor in gains achieved at their expense, however meaningful.”<br />
Among those who signed this letter was the co-editor of volume 25 and a number of the Lithunian contributors.<br />
3. The independence day marches, in which right-radicals and antisemites have participated have been permitted (not encouraged) by the Lithuanian authorities. The number of people who participated was small and they were also widely condemned by the more liberal elements in Lithuanian society. The issue here is of freedom of expression, which is an essential element in a free and open society. Lithuania is one of the more successful countries of the former Soviet Union in establishing a pluralist and outward looking political culture. It has recently (unlike Ukraine) conducted a parliamentary election which was for the most part held to be free and fair.<br />
4. The questions of Tuskulėnai is a complex and sad story and is fully discussed in an article in the volume by Ellen Cassedy. In 1994, 700 bodies were found buried under the green lawn of an old Vilnius estate called Tuskulėnai. Research determined that they were the remains of people who had been executed by the KGB shortly after the Second World War. In the newly independent republic, the discovery prompted nationwide outrage. Plans for a memorial got underway. But it soon came out that many of the bodies—hundreds, in fact—were those of Lithuanians who had helped to massacre Jews in 1941. The Jewish community protested ‘the erection of a common memorial to those who are considered to be freedom fighters and those who, based on all moral norms, are war criminals and indictable offenders’.<br />
It was not possible to separate the bones into two neat piles—patriots here, criminals there—and so construction came to a halt and a stormy debate began over what to do with the bodies and with the site itself. Could a memorial be designed that would pay tribute to the fallen without enshrining evil deeds? After years of delay, a new blueprint was drawn up, this time not for a pantheon of heroes but for a ‘Park of Quiet’, a place of reflection, with an education wing exploring the complexities inherent in the site. When the Park of Quiet opened in November of 2004, however, no such wing had been created. In 2008, oversight of the memorial was transferred from the Ministry of Culture to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, whose mission focused on the victims and misdeeds of the Soviet, not the Nazi, era. On a web page devoted to Tuskulėnai, the Centre made no mention of the complicated issues raised by the victims’ tangled identities. And the educational presentations offered at the memorial in 2010 concerned the Lithuanian flag; Lithuanian holidays that were outlawed during the Soviet era; and the ‘dullness of Soviet everyday life’. The opportunity to use the site to communicate the complex truths of two eras, has remained unfulfilled. This is one of the issues we will be discussing at the conference.<br />
5. The main sponsors of the ‘Prague Declaration’ were Vaclav Havel, the late president of the Czech Republic and Joachim Gauck, now President of Germany, both figures whose moral authority is unquestioned. It does not seek to equate Soviet and Nazi crimes, but to draw attention to the enormous extent of the former, which have sometimes been forgotten.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Antony Polonsky<br />
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Monica Lowenberg wrote:<br />
13 December 2012<br />
Dear Professor Polonsky,<br />
Many thanks indeed for your detailed reply and apologies for not getting back to you immediately, I am at this time of year like yourself and others exceptionally busy. As you can imagine, the international specialists we have consulted hold different views, and we are absolutely confident of the facts in my petition. Of course you have every right to publish your response, which would hopefully lead to a respectful, dignified and public exchange of views at whatever time you would wish to proceed with publication in an appropriate forum.<br />
In the meantime, there is just one issue which needs a rapid reply: May I have five minutes to read my petition at the opening session of the conference, in the company of my 90 year old father Ernst Loewenberg, who is a Holocaust survivor. After reading the letter, I will leave. You and others would have all the time in the world to respond should you wish to, and of course, to publish your response when you feel ready, so that these grave issues may be discussed frankly and openly.<br />
The wording of my petition, checked meticulously with Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, members of the Lithuanian Jewish community and scholars in different parts of the world, is the wording that has now been effectively approved by hundreds of signatories from close to two dozen countries. It is the document which I humbly and respectfully ask permission to read out at the conference.<br />
May I have five minutes to read the petition at the conference’s opening session?<br />
I would be most grateful if you would be so kind as to reply as a matter of urgency, on this one point: whether you permit me five minutes to read out the petition on Tuesday 18 December 2012 during the opening session. I ask to be accompanied by my father, Ernst Loewenberg, a Holocaust survivor. We will both leave immediately after the reading so as not to disturb your proceedings in any way.<br />
As I have many commitments at this time of year I apologise for having to place pressure on you however, I would be most grateful if you would be so kind as to confirm, in writing by email, by this Friday 14 December 2012 by 12pm, whether you permit me to read out the petition on Tuesday 18 December 2012 at 10am, directly after the ambassadors welcome or at least within the first thirty minutes, so that departure can be assured by 10.30am at the latest. If you agree to me reading out the petition, I humbly request that you be so kind as to state exact venue address to where I should go and permit my father Ernst Loewenberg to be present as well. If I receive no response from yourself by email by this coming Friday 14 December 2012 by 12pm, I will very sadly have to assume that the answer is no and you have declined my request to read out the petition.<br />
With many thanks for your kind consideration,<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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<li>From: Antony Polonsky</li>
<li>Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM</li>
<li>Subject: Re: FW: Request from Monica Lowenberg</li>
<li>To: Monica Lowenberg</li>
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Dear Ms Lowenberg,<br />
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As I explained in my letter your suggestion that you come to the conference, read a statement and then leave is contrary to all principles of academic discussion and I therefore cannot accept it.</div>
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Yours faithfully,</div>
Antony Polonsky<br />
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Monica Lowenberg wrote:<br />
13 December 2012<br />
Dear Professor Polonsky,<br />
As you well know, my offer to leave after reading the petition was to avoid disturbing your conference; I would be more than happy to stay and discuss. This seems yet another lame attempt to deflect attention from the one and only main point: Whether people who attend this conference are permitted to know about the petition and these constructive requests being made to the Lithuanian government? The petition is not about your book or your colleagues. It is addressed to the Lithuanian government, as you well know.<br />
I am shocked and flabbergasted that the request for five minutes to read out a petition to the Lithuanian government (that is sponsoring your conference at UCL), to read it out on behalf of the Holocaust survivor community and many hundreds of people who hold opinions different to your own, strikes you as contrary to principles of academic discussion. Hundreds of people have signed the petition, including Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, eminent scholars and many Lithuanian citizens. What is very sad for me is that an East European government’s PR budget to subvert open debate can jettison free discussion, to the point where professors from the west who have received awards and knighthoods from that government are so afraid that an audience in London might be exposed to a second opinion (one at odds with the government talking points you have sent me). The petition is a public, published document with hundreds of signatures. Your attempt, on behalf of the Lithuanian government, to try to ensure that those attending your conference never find out about the petition’s very existence must fail. We shall be taking this to the provost of UCL today.<br />
All good wishes<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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<li>From: Antony Polonsky</li>
<li>Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM</li>
<li>Subject: Re: Response with regards to Free Speech not permitted by Prof Polonsky, refusal to allow Monica Lowenberg to read out petition</li>
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To: Monica Lowenberg<br />
Dear Ms Lowenberg,<br />
You must do as you are best advised.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
Antony Polonsky<br />
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On 14/12/2012 11:37, Monica Lowenberg wrote:<br />
14 December 2012<br />
Dear Professor Berkowitz, Dr Guesnet, Prof Rapoport Albert,<br />
Further to Professor Polonsky’s response to myself yesterday evening I am appealing to your good reason as organisers, hosts and heads of dept at UCL, an established and internationally respected university.<br />
It has been shameful and hideous that UCL have made me beg like this to ask for 5 minutes to read out a petition to the Lithuanian government who you have in this instance tragically and unwisely collaborated with for a second time.<br />
I am appealing to your good reason in the interest of the thousands of young people I have taught over 18 years in my capacity as a teacher in London and in Newcastle and as a former researcher and DPhil student at Sussex university. In the spirit of free speech and democracy and with the purpose of upholding all that we know is important, keeping the integrity of UCL alive a major world university which the Lithuanian government deliberately targeted for those reasons, I beg you to allow me and my father to read out the petition to the Lithuanian government on Tuesday 18 December at 10.00am.<br />
I look forward to receiving a positive response from UCL<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Michael Berkowitz wrote:<br />
Dear Monica,<br />
If you have an opportunity to call me please do. I’ll try to explain why I support Professor Polonsky.<br />
very best,<br />
Michael<br />
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<li>From: Monica Lowenberg</li>
<li>Date: Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:20 PM</li>
<li>Subject: Re: REquest for UCL staff to reconsider Monica Lowenberg’s request to read out the petition infront of the Lithuanian government Tuesday 18 December 2012 with her 90 year old father Ernst Loewenberg present</li>
<li>To: Michael Berkowitz</li>
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Michael,<br />
Thank you for our conversation today and for confirming that you are unprepared to allow me to read out the petition today .<br />
As a result and as mentioned, I now do not permit that you or any of your colleagues and students at UCL have access to the documents I gave in good faith to Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith only this November concerning the 35 member of my father’s family who were murdered in the Holocaust. I am copying Frank into this email.<br />
In view of your recent decision I cannot allow documents so personally precious to us to be handled or used in any shape or form by a university department that supports a right wing, Baltic extremist government that is using this conference for their own political aims.<br />
Monica Lowenberg<br />
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However, my opinion will hardly be of interest for Mr Zingeris, a <br />
<b>Lithuanian</b> politician of <b>Jewish</b> descent. To my mind, the <br />
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18. <strong>Newsletter der Botschaft des Staates Israel 15.02 2013</strong><br />
Der Kampf des Enkels eines SS-mannes um die Renten fuer die <br />
Ueberlebenden der Ghettos von Ofer Adret, first published in <br />
Haaretz 15.02.2013<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">20. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/102461/jewish-book-week-defends-lithuanian-invitation&ct=ga&cad=CAEQARgAIAAoATAAOABA2bD1iAVIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=D5kdFnVeots&usg=AFQjCNEBEjd7Wct3Zaj3zYXWBWWSGmPwuw" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1111cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.22px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><b>Jewish</b> Book Week defends <b>Lithuanian</b> invitation</a> </span></div>
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3. <a href="http://vimeo.com/38155215">http://vimeo.com/38155215</a> A mesmerising film (a full-length documentary) about the Vilna Yiddish Institute.<br />
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4. <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/shop/rewriting-history.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>shop/rewriting-history.pdf</a> Rewriting History published by Hope Not Hate December 2012, <span style="font-family: Georgia-Bold;">written by David Williams </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United Nations Human Rights Committee finalised the examination of the 3rd periodic report of Lithuania, which took place on 10 and 11 July 2012 in Geneva.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>“The Human Rights Committee expressed grave concern about past demonstrations led by neo-Nazis, who openly displayed swastikas. The State referenced the freedom of assembly, but was reminded by the Committee that freedoms of assembly and expression are not absolute rights – they must be managed by the State when they are in violation of human rights.”</strong><strong> </strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia-Bold;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">[Excerpt from the 11 July 2012 UN Human Rights Report, Geneva] full text: </span><a href="http://www.ccprcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LITHUANIA-11-July.pdf" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.ccprcentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LITHUANIA-11-July.pdf</span></a></span></span><br />
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They refuse to move, will congregate at the Cathedral Square as always. This is signed by Ric[h]ardas C[h]ekutis, ( <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=213523">http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=213523</a> )who continues to be officially employed as a 'senior specialist' on war crimes issues [!] for the state sponsored Genocide Center (which maintains close ties with with the red-brown commission) and which runs the state funded Genocide Museum. </div>
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1. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/29732/lithuanian-jews-slam-feb-16-march-in-kaunas-201329732/&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAEoATAAOABApI-FiQVIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=4Q76cZWumto&usg=AFQjCNG4nqp5TWy8cVHh0JKFOhmDOy3YOA" style="color: #1111cc;" target="_blank"><b>Lithuanian Jews</b> slam Feb 16 march in KaunasThe Lithuania Tribune</a></div>
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<em><span style="color: #000033; font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;">March of one of Lithuania's main Neo-Nazi organizations. Visible are the modified Swastikas protected under Lithuanian law as cultural symbols. Despite its overt Fascist nature the league is partly funded by the Lithuanian government and even more incredibly,is also the recipient of EU funding. The marchers can be clearly heard jeering Antifa, Lithuania's Anti-Fascist organization. As with previous marches by the league there were virtually no counter demonstrators. The league is known for its ardent xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-Roma racism, homophobic prejudice and bigotry towards people of color. In its white supremacist views the league supports the Holocaust Revisionism so pervasive in Lithuanian society, also endorsed by the Lithuanian state, many academic institutions and the Lithuanian Catholic Church. An EU study on social tolerance in Europe carried out in 2010 described Lithuania as the "most intolerant" country in the European Union. Last May the remains of Lithuania's wartime Nazi collaborationist leader, Juozas Ambrazevicius Brazaitis, were repatriated and given state honors with a military honor guard and former President Adamkus in attendance. The Archbishop of Kaunas said mass for the puppet leader and said he was a man "who loved god and loved Lithuania". Ambrazevicius legally enacted the orders which allowed the slaughter and deportation of Lithuania's Jewish population. Between 1941 and 1944, largely at the hands of other Lithuanians, some 196.000 of Lithuania's 210,000 Jews were murdered, the most complete near total extermination in the whole of the Holocaust in all of occupied Europe. The leader of the league Julius Panka denies this and the role played by the wartime puppet leader. Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas has a lecture hall named in honor of Ambrazevicius. During the Second World War Lithuanian militia and security police served as Nazi alllies in the Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, notably as guards in the Majdanek concentration camp and in the crushing of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Throughout the war, very few Lithuanians fought in the resistance against German occupation and many of these were Lithuanian Jews, but the Jewish fighters, such as those in the partisan group known as the FPO, are not commemorated in the National War Museum in Kaunas, which strangely lacks any exhibits from 1941 to 1945. No EU embassy nor the US embassy in Vilnius condemned today's march.</span></em></div>
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<strong>Kaunas 16.02.2013, Vilnius 11.03.2013 </strong><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coverage: </span><a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/efraimas-zuroffas-vasario-16-osios-eitynes-kaune-paremtos-ta-pacia-ideologija-kaip-zudynes-lietukio-garaze-56-307280"><span style="font-size: small;">15min.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/efraimas-zuroffas-vasario-16-osios-eitynes-kaune-paremtos-ta-pacia-ideologija-kaip-zudynes-lietukio-garaze-56-307280?utm_source=rssfeed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rssfeed"><span style="font-size: small;">15min.lt (2)</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.atspindziai.lt/index.php?id=3788"><span style="font-size: small;">Atspindziai.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.balsas.lt/naujiena/717057/e-zuroffas-nacionalistu-eitynes-juodina-lietuvos-varda-pasaulio-akyse"><span style="font-size: small;">Balsas.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.bernardinai.lt/straipsnis/2013-02-15-e-zuroffas-neturetu-buti-leista-rengti-nacionalistu-eitynes-vasario-16-aja/95579"><span style="font-size: small;">Bernardinai.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://sc.bns.lt/?item=141347&id=1&subid=5"><span style="font-size: small;">BNS</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/valismaa/zuroff-leedu-rahvuslaste-16-veebruari-rongkaik-tuleks-keelustada.d?id=65685240"><span style="font-size: small;">Delfi.ee</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/ezuroffas-piktinasi-kad-lietuvoje-neonaciams-priesinasi-tik-gejai-ir-lesbietes.d?id=60681613"><span style="font-size: small;">Delfi.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.diena.lt/naujienos/lietuva/e-zuroffas-tikiuosi-nacionalistu-eitynes-kaune-bus-uzdraustos-477859?utm_source=feed_reader&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_feed"><span style="font-size: small;">Diena.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://faktai.lt/lietuva/e-zuroffas-teigia-kad-neturetu-buti-leista-rengti-nacionalistu-eitynes-vasario-16-aja/"><span style="font-size: small;">Faktai.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://infodiena.lt/Zydai-nacionalistams-siulo-zygiuoti-Balbieriskyje-Aktualijos-858701rss.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Infodiena.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.info.lt/naujienos/E-Zuroffas-tikiuosi-nacionalist%C5%B3-eityn%C4%97s-Kaune-bus-u%C5%BEdraustos/31055"><span style="font-size: small;">Info.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://kauno.diena.lt/naujienos/miestas/e-zuroffas-tikiuosi-nacionalistu-eitynes-kaune-bus-uzdraustos-477859"><span style="font-size: small;">Kaunodiena.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.lankeliene.eu/index.php/15-aktualijos/2049-zydai-nacionalistams-siulo-zygiuoti-balbieriskyje"><span style="font-size: small;">Lanaeliene.eu</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.lietuvoszinios.lt/Lietuvoje/E.Zuroffas-Lietuva-turetu-uzdrausti-eitynes"><span style="font-size: small;">Lietuvoszynios.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/12036/e._zuroffas_piktinasi_kad_lietuvoje_neonaciams_priesinasi_tik_gejai_ir_lesbietes"><span style="font-size: small;">Lrt.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.lrytas.lt/lietuvos-diena/aktualijos/zydai-nacionalistams-siulo-zygiuoti-balbieriskyje.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">Lrytas.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://www.lzinios.lt/Lietuvoje/E.Zuroffas-Lietuva-turetu-uzdrausti-eitynes"><span style="font-size: small;">Lzinios.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://ru.delfi.lt/news/live/zuroff-vozmuschen-chto-v-litve-protiv-nacistov-tolko-gei-i-lesbiyanki.d?id=60681865&l=fplead"><span style="font-size: small;">Ru.delfi.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Wiesenthal-Center-Press-Release.pdf"><span style="font-size: small;">SWC</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">; </span><a href="http://tv.lrytas.lt/?id=13609449121359764409"><span style="font-size: small;">Tv.lryts.lt</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on Lithuanian authorities to ban neo-Nazi marches that mark Lithuanian Independence Day published by Arutz Sheva 19.02.2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">5.<a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/up-close-and-personal-with-some-lithuanian-eo-nazis/" target="_blank">http://blogs.timesofisrael.<wbr></wbr>com/up-close-and-personal-<wbr></wbr>with-some-lithuanian-eo-nazis/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">A Lithuanian neo-Nazi March: too close for comfort published by Times of Israel 18 February 2013</span><br />
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4. <a href="http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/31491/presidential-adviser-against-march-ban-201331491/">http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/31491/presidential-adviser-against-march-ban-201331491/</a><br />
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5. <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-parliament-honors-organizers-of-neo-nazi-march-in-central-vilnius/51141">Believe It Or Not: Lithuanian Parliament Honors Organizers of Neo-Nazi March in Central Vilnius</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The fourth episode of the Lithuanian feminist show Žibutė is the first one accessible in English. It is our first attempt to make sure some of our local and troubling issues come out of the Lithuanian closet so that local feminists and activists find solidarity with allies abroad. </span><br />
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<a href="http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/Holocaust/LT-Holocaust-small.html" target="_blank">Map</a>; Holocaust <a href="http://holocaustatlas.lt/EN/" target="_blank">Atlas</a> by Milda Jakulytė-Vasil; David Bankier’s <a href="http://secure.yadvashem.org/store/product.asp?productid=528" target="_blank">Holocaust Testimonials from Provincial Lithuania</a> (Yad Vashem); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA2BAA3ADC43CC101&feature=plpp" target="_blank">Video clips</a>.</span></h3>
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I: ONLINE RESOURCES</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Note: This list does not include translations from the Yizkor Book or memoir literature on individual towns. Many can be accessed by town name on <a href="http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp" target="_blank">JewishGen</a>, via the <a href="http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/LT-Holocaust-small.html" target="_blank">Holocaust Map of Lithuania</a> (using prewar residence as point of departure) or the current <a href="http://holocaustatlas.lt/EN/" target="_blank">Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas</a> project that documents the mass graves of Lithuania and their history.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/documents/studies/The_Final_Solution.pdf" target="_blank">Yitzhak Arad, “The ‘Final Solution’ in Lithuania in the Light of German Documentation” in YadVashem.org. Yad Vashem</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/yitzhak-arad-on-the-holocaust-in-lithuania-and-its-obfuscation-in-lithuanian-sources/46252" target="_blank">Yitzhak Arad, “The Holocaust in Lithuania, and its obfuscation, in Lithuanian sources” in <em>DefendingHistory.com</em></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.lituanus.org/2001/01_4_03.htm" target="_blank">Solomonas Atamukas, “The Hard Long Road to the Truth: On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Holocaust in Lithuania” in <em>Lituanus </em>(Winter 2001)</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2006-1/donskis-leonidas-7/PDF/donskis.pdf" target="_blank">Leonidas Donskis, “Another Word for Uncertainty: Antisemitism in Modern Lithuania” in <em>Nordeuropa Forum</em> 1/2006</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_32-21.htm" target="_blank">Leonidas Donskis, “The Inflation of Genocide” in <em>EuropeanVoice.com</em>, 24 July 2009</a>. <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_32-21.htm" target="_blank">Alternate link</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1994KarenFriedmanDoctorateOnLithuanianHolocaust.pdf" target="_blank">Karen Ehrlich Friedman, <em>German-Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941–1944. </em>PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago: Chicago 1994</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://clemensheni.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-prague-declaration-holocaust-obfuscation-and-antisemitism/" target="_blank">Clemens Heni, ”The Prague Declaration, Holocaust Trivialization and Antisemitism” in <em>Wissenschaft und Publizistik als Kritik</em>, 26 October 2009</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/Holocaust/LT-Holocaust-small.html" target="_blank">Dovid Katz, Map of “The Jewish Communities of Lithuania: Links to their Holocaust Fate” in www.dovidkatz.net</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.dovidkatz.net/dovid/Lithuania/Holocaust/_LT-Holocaust-Places.htm" target="_blank">Dovid Katz, “List of Locations” in www.dovidkatz.net</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.pdf" target="_blank">Dovid Katz: “On three definitions: Genocide, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Obfuscation” in Leonidas Donskis (ed), <em>A Litmus Test Case of Modernity. Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century</em> [= <em>Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5</em>], Peter Lang: Bern 2009, pp 259-277</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Zvi-Kolitzs-Extermination-of-Jews-in-Lithuania.pdf" target="_blank">Zvi Kolitz, “The Physical and Metaphysical Dimensions of the Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania” in Lucjan Dobrosycki and Jeffrey S. Gurock (eds), <em>The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-1945</em>, pp 195-204</a>.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Konrad-Kwiets-ONSET-OF-THE-HOLOCAUST-IN-LITHUANIA.pdf" target="_blank">Konrad Kwiet, “The Onset of the Holocaust: The Massacre of the Jews in Lithuania in June 1941” in Andrew Bonnell, Gregory Munro and Martin Travers (eds), <em>Power, Conscience, and Opposition</em>, Peter Lang: New York 1996, pp 107-121</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Konrad-Kwiets-Rehearsing-for-Murder-in-1941.pdf" target="_blank">Konrad Kwiet, “Rehearsing for Murder: The Beginning of the Final<br />Solution in Lithuania in June 1941” in <em>Holocaust and Genocide Studies</em>,<br />12.1 (Spring 1998), pp. 3-26</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://holocaustinthebaltics.com/collaborator-dry-clean/laf-intentions" target="_blank">Joseph Levinson, “The LAF [Lithuanian Activist Front] and the First Acts of the Provisional Government” in his <em>The Shoah in Lithuania, </em>Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and Vaga: Vilnius 2006, pp 163-224</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dina-Porats-The-Holocaust-in-Lithuania.pdf" target="_blank">Dina Porat, “The Holocaust in Lithuania. Some Unique Aspects” in David Cesarani,<br />ed., <em>The Final Solution. Origins and Implementation</em>, pp. 159-174. London: Routledge, 1994</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/yurburg/bathesis.html" target="_blank">Ruta Puisyte, “The Holocaust in Jurbarkas”, BA thesis (Vilnius University 1997) supervised by Professor Meir Shub; prefaces by Meir Shub and Dov Levin; translated into English by Joseph Rosin</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Unknown-Black-Book-1.pdf" target="_blank">Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman (eds), <em>The Unknown Black Book. The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories, </em>Indiana University Press and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Bloomington, pp 277-315</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/LiudasTruska2001.pdf" target="_blank">Liudas Truska, “Contemporary attitudes toward the Holocaust in Lithuania” in <em>Jews in Eastern Europe</em> 2(45) 2001, pp. 5-26</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/holocaust.html" target="_blank">Katy Miller-Korpi, “The Holocaust in the Baltics” in SCAND 344, May 1998</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-zuroff-s05.htm" target="_blank">Efraim Zuroff: “Eastern Europe: Antisemitism in the Wake of Holocaust Related Issues” in <em>Jewish Political Studies Review</em>, 2005</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005444" target="_blank">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Encyclopedia: “Lithuania”</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/2005-07-03/paper.pdf" target="_blank">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Lithuania and the Jews: The Holocaust Chapter. Symposium Presentations</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206436.pdf" target="_blank">Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center: “Lithuania”</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%202007.pdf" target="_blank">Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center. </a><em><a href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%202007.pdf" target="_blank">Extract from a Report by Karl Jaeger</a>. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yitzhak Arad, <em>The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. </em>University of Nebraska: Lincoln & Yad Vashem: Jerusalem 2009, 701 pp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yitzhak Arad, <em>Ghetto in Flames. </em>Holocaust Publications: Washington DC 1983.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Christoph Dieckmann, “The Role of Lithuanians in the Holocaust” = pp. 149-168 in Beate Kosmola and Feliks Tych (eds), <em>Facing the Nazi Genocide: Non-Jews and Jews in Europe</em>, Berlin: Metropol, 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">David Gaunt, <em>Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.</em> Peter Lang: Bern 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Martin Gilbert, <em>The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy.</em> Fontana / Collins 1990 [and other editions]. On Lithuania: pp. 51, 78, 154, 182, 234-5, 281, 339. 620, 722, 798-9, 799. On Vilnius: pp. 22, 39, 60, 91, 92, 168, 170, 177, 185-6, 192-5, 206-8, 216-7, 219, 228, 233, 234, 246, 339, 486, 544, 559, 568-9, 583, 590, 592-3, 595, 598, 606-7, 608, 620, 699, 703-4, 735, 777, 788. On Kaunas: pp. 51, 117-8, 124, 153, 155, 157, 161, 168, 178, 180-1, 189-90, 196, 199, 208, 222-7, 229, 234, 235, 323, 520, 554, 593-4, 640-1, 645-6, 664, 678. 702, 741, 783, 786, 799.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Martin Gilbert, <em>Atlas of the Holocaust. </em> William Morrow 1993 [and other editions]. On Lithuania: Maps 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 25, 26, 33, 36, 42, 74, 75, 87, 88, 98, 99, 182, 214, 274, 316. On Vilnius: 1, 2, 4. 11, 14, 28, 3, 71, 73, 75, 83, 86, 87, 94, 96, 98, 170, 176, 185, 186, 195, 202, 208, 209, 210, 215, 219, 224, 226, 244, 247, 260, 261, 267, 272, 274, 308, 311, 313, 314.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Martin Gilbert, <em>Never Again. </em>Universe Publishing [and other editions; also available in Lithuanian translation]. On Lithuania: pp. 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 49, 62, 63, 64, 64, 71, 99, 105, 109, 147, 151, 153, 158, 160, 177. On Vilnius: pp. 17, 38, 40, 41, 44, 48, 56, 68, 69, 70, 79, 81, 119, 125, 163, 167, 168, 175. On Kaunas: pp. 7, 17, 49, 63, 68, 69, 78, 96-9, 100, 101, 109, 119, 124, 125, 148, 152, 161, 171, 174.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sara Ginaite, <em>Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941-1944</em>. Mosaic Press: Oakville, Ontario 2006. [also available in Lithuanian]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Masha Greenbaum, “The Bloodbath” = pp 302-339 in her<em> The Jews of Lithuania. A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945. </em>Gefen Publishing House: Jerusalem & Hewlett, NY 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Dovid Katz, “On three definitions: Genocide, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Obfuscation” in Leonidas Donskis (ed), <em>A Litmus Test Case of Modernity. Examining Modern Sensibilities and the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century</em> [= <em>Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5</em>], Peter Lang: Bern 2009, pp 259-277. At: <a href="http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>holocaustinthebaltics.com/<wbr></wbr>2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen & Volker Riess (eds), “Pogroms in Kaunas and elsewhere in Lithuania” = pp 23-58 in their <em>‘The Good Old Days’. The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper [Oxford University]. </em>Free Press (Macmillan): New York 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Herman Kruk, <em>The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Edited and introduced by Benjamin Harshav. Translated by Barbara Harshav. </em>Yivo and Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2002.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Dov Levin, “World War II, the Holocaust and the Jewish Survivors” = pp 187-247 in his <em>The Litvaks. A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania</em>. Yad Vashem: Jerusalem 2000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joseph Levinson (ed), <em>The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania. </em>Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum: Vilnius 2006. [Note: original edition in Lithuanian].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rachel Margolis, <em>Partisan from Vilna</em>[memoir]. With an introduction by Professor Antony Polonsky. Afterword by Marjorie Margolis. Academic Studies Press: Boston 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ephraim Oshry, <em>The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. </em>Judaica Press: New York 1995. [original Yiddish edition: <em>Khurbn Lite</em>, NY 1951].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Dina Porat, “The Holocaust in Lithuania. Some Unique Aspects” = pp. 159-174 in David Cesarani (ed.), <em>The Final Solution. Origins and Implementation</em>, Rutledge: New York 1996.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman (eds), “Lithuania” = pp 277-315 in their <em>The Unknown Black Book. The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories.</em>Indiana University Press: Bloomington & Indianapolis 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Kazimierz Sakowicz, <em>Ponary Diary 1941-1943. A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder. </em>Edited by Yitzhak Arad. Preface by Rachel Margolis [rediscoverer of the manuscript and publisher of the original Polish edition of 1999]. Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2005.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Michael Shafir, <em>Between Denial and “Comparative Trivialization”: Holocaust Negationism in Post-Communist East Central Europe. </em>Hebrew University: Jerusalem 2002 [= The Vidal Sasoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, <em>ACTA no. 19</em>].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">N.N. Shneidman, <em>Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius. </em>Mosaic Press: Oakville, Ontario 2002.<em> </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">N.N. Shneidman, <em>Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto. </em>Mosaic Press: Oakville, Ontario 2002.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sara Shner-Neshamit, “Jewish-Lithuanian Relations during World War II: History and Rhetoric” = pp 167-184 in Zvi Gitelman (ed), <em>Bitter Legacy. Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR. </em>Indiana University Press: Bloomington & Indianapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lyn Smith, <em>Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust. </em>Carroll & Graf: New York [memoir by Juozas Aleksynas, member of the 12th & 13th Lithuanian police battalion, on pp 96-98].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Karen Sutton, <em>The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania. Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution 1941-1944. </em>Gefen Publishing House: Jerusalem & New York 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Abraham Tory, <em>Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Edited with an introduction by Martin Gilbert. Textual and historical notes by Dina Porat. </em>Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tomas Venclova, “Jews and Lithuanians” in his <em>Forms of Hope. </em>Sheep Meadow Press: 2002.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sima Ycikas, “Lithuanian-Jewish Relations in the Shadow of the Holocaust” = pp 185-213 in Zvi Gitelman (ed), <em>Bitter Legacy. Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR</em>. Indiana University Press: Bloomington & Indianapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Isaac Zibuts et al, <em>The Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in Lithuania. </em>R. Paknio Leidykla: Vilnius 2009. [Note: parallel, concurrent edition in Lithuanian].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Efraim Zuroff, <em>Operation Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice.</em> Palgrave Macmillan: New York & Basingstoke 2009.</span></div>
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On a rainy London evening, Thursday the 7th of March, six protesters met at University College London (UCL), for Cassedy had come to town. Her public talk initially scheduled to take place in the Garwood lecture theatre was unexpectedly changed to the Medawar Lankester lecture theatre two days prior. People on the Hebrew department’s Institute of Jewish Studies email list were notified of the change in venue but the details were, curiously enough, not updated on UCL’s website.<br />
Nevertheless, despite such last minute logistical alterations, protesters against Cassedy’s book tour that is underway “in association” with the Lithuanian government met at 6:30 PM in the narrow corridor leading to the Lankester theatre. By a small table they strategically positioned themselves ready to warmly greet the 45 odd attendees who politely walked past and eagerly took handouts concerning the Lithuanian government’s recent actions since 2006, Ms. Cassedy’s association with the government, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/2013-petitions">petitions</a>, letters and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/book-reviews-of-cassedys-we-are-here-that-fear-she-was-manipulated#bookreviews">book reviews</a>.<br />
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Nervous and horrified at the welcome committee, Cassedy and Professor Berkowitz (a lecturer at UCL and coorganizer with the Lithuanian Embassy in London of the scandalous <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/london-fog-part-ii-the-second-in-the-lithuanian-governments-london-series/46853">“No Simple Stories” Part Two conference</a> in December 2012) took a leaflet and swiftly walked past. In total 63 leaflets were handed out and 40 rather large press packs, each approximately 20 pages long, and with the full text of the book reviews by <a href="http://forward.com/articles/159607/wide-eyed-postcards-from-lithuania/">Allan Nadler</a>, <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/18/respectable-memoir-some-shrewd-manipulation-by-an-east-european-government-%E2%80%95-or-both/">Dovid Katz</a>, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/self-induced-confusion-by-olga-zabludoff/44717">Olga Zabludoff</a> and <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Efraim-Zuroff-reviews-3-books-Haaretz-Sept-2012.pdf">Efraim Zuroff</a>.<br />
At seven sharp, handouts on desks, pens to the ready, Cassedy’s talk commenced. A talk supposedly meant to cover her journey back to Lithuania to retrace her Lithuanian roots. An eclectic mix of memories conveyed in a Mills and Boon style, coupled with a smattering of (very Americanized, parody sort of) Yiddish, a few photos and recollections of conversations with Lithuanians she had serendipitously met in the Lithuanian woods, cloaked in Hollywoodesque sentiment were presented. The only thing the Lithuanian man’s yellow cottage with marigolds around it did not have was a yellow brick road leading to it and a rainbow. However, I forget that rainbow colored balloons were shown after pictures of current day Nazi marches in the center of Vilnius.<br />
One thing that was particularly striking about the talk was not only its lack of historical knowledge but the inordinate amount of time that Ms. Cassedy devoted to not talking about her actual personal journey to Lithuania but addressing all the various issues campaigners have been asking the Lithuanian government to address in recent years. As if PR for the government is the underlying purpose, as some reviewers had felt was the case with parts of her book. Photos of the Tuskulėnai Peace Park were shown and she admitted that it was a “sad place” for there lay the bones of many people, “difficult to identify who,” not mentioning once though that the Tuskulėnai Peace Park had had, only last year, thousands of dollars pumped into it by the Lithuanian government to glorify hundreds of Jew shooters. Pictures of Nazi marches on Independence Day were shown and swiftly afterwards photos of “wacky” people carrying brightly colored balloons at a tolerance march. What were they tolerating? The neo-Nazi marches?<br />
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See also: <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/uk">UK page</a>; <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/category/ucl-manipulated">section on UCL’s Hebrew Dept. and the Lithuanian Embassy & Foreign Ministry</a></h4>
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The reburial of Juozas Ambrazevičius Brazaitis by the Lithuanian government little over half a year ago? This was actually mentioned by Cassedy. Ambrazevičius Brazaitis was the puppet prime minister who was responsible for signing the order the Germans gave for Jews of his city, Kaunas (Kovno) to be sent to a concentration camp (it was actually a torture and murder camp), and a few weeks later signed another ordering all of Kovno’s Jews to be locked up in the ghetto within four weeks.<br />
However, in the same breath Cassedy spoke of all the kind people who are involved in admirable initiatives today. They apparently ask Lithuanians important questions, they ask them to engage with their Jewish past and in so doing hope to create an “active civil society” that is intolerant of ”intolerance of tolerance … and stops future genocides.” But perhaps the most interesting admission was that concerning the Lithuanian government’s criminalization of Holocaust survivors. Not easy to justify something like that but Cassedy attempted to find a way. Apparently it was “not good” that they had been criminalized and it “was good” that campaigners (who?) had placed pressure on the government and apparently all was “well now.”<br />
Question time arrived and in the interest of free speech the six protesters allowed others to ask questions first. At the fourth question, Irena Fick diplomatically asked Cassedy what she thought of Holocaust survivors such as Yitzhak Arad, the former director of Yad Vashem and Joseph Melamed, head of the major survivor organization of Lithuanian Jewry, two survivors who like Margolis and Brantsovsky were effectively criminalized by the Lithuanian government’s “pre-trial investigations” (Arad in 2006, Melamed in 2011; the campaign against Brantsovsky and Margolis started in 2008).<br />
True to form, Cassedy bemoaned the fact that this had happened, and concluded that despite this having occurred all was now well. At this juncture Monica Lowenberg contradicted the speaker: “That is not true, Ms. Cassedy, that truly is not the case, no public apologies have been given, these elderly people are still defamed as war criminals at home and on the web.” Ms. Lowenberg, as fate would have it, <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/prof-polonsky-recipient-of-lithuanian-presidents-award-turns-down-monica-lowenbergs-request-for-five-minutes-to-read-her-petition-at-ucls-lithuanian-government-sponsored-conference-in-london/47209">was prevented by Dr. Berkowitz</a> from reading out her international petition for a five minute slot at the December conference. But now poetic justice had come into things, and suddenly, anxious to let the sounds of silence reign, Berkowitz abruptly concluded the evening and question time was no more.<br />
Throughout the 50 minute talk many of the attendees read with great interest the handouts, some from cover to cover.<br />
On reflection perhaps the only genuine statement uttered throughout the entire talk would be Cassedy’s admission that her uncle had been part of the Jewish police in the Shavl (Šiauliai) ghetto. Cassedy was correct in stating that one should not judge him, his position as a Jew at such a time must have been terrible and the man over the years had kept his integrity by never denying his role, never diminishing it, never justifying it, simply accepting that that had been the case. How tragic that his niece had not learnt anything from his example. Unable to cope with the realities that the Holocaust inflicted on the individual then and now, Cassedy opts for a supposedly postmodern world where in the spirit of “tolerance” one is asked to not judge but ask questions, ask questions to a degree where Hollywood meets history. Questions become answers and the lines of reality blur to the point where wishful thinking becomes reality and fact fiction.<br />
No longer is there a divide between perpetrators and victims and collaborators are demoted to being mere “bystanders.” In this red-brown fog which is supposedly meant to help Lithuanians forge a brighter future for themselves, a fog (and a future) based on gross historical inaccuracies and deception, all I could think of by the end of the talk was a song (melody follows <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDN4L7cAQf0">Gene Pitney’s “Liberty Valance”</a>). For when in Hollywood…<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>A rainy evening in London Town</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>T’was when Cassedy came around</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Had me low and had me down</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>I viewed the morning with alarm</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>UCL had lost its charm</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>How long, I wondered, could this thing last?</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>But the age of miracles hadn’t passed,</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>For, suddenly, I saw that all the handouts had gone</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>Cassedy had sold three books and she was done</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>And through rainy London Town</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><em>The moon shone everywhere.</em></span></li>
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<strong>The six protesters at UCL on March 7th were: Sarah Cochrane, Irena Fick, Nicole Forbes, Monica Lowenberg, Ian Marshall, and Emma Stock.</strong></h6>
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<strong><em>'Never before in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'</em></strong>. Churchill 13.05.1945- It seems many EU and NATO countries have forgotten this sacrifice, for if they haven't, why are SS veterans glorified in Latvia today?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Recent Media Oct 2012 (3 sources)</span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#latvianmedia"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Latvian Media</span></span></a> (52
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#russianmedia"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Media</span></span></a> (17
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(22 clips)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#photodocs"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Photo Documentaries of the 16 March
and the Counter Demonstration, Riga, 2012</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(7 sources)</span></li>
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advertised in the Latvian paper<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Telegraf and then reported about in the main Latvian paper Delfi-</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Front Cover News 24 and 25
February 2012</span></li>
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in London, UK and Monica Lowenberg</span></span></a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1313498706352487687#edm"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">Early Day Motions made by Dr. Barry
Gardiner (Labour MP) and Bob Blackman (Conservative MP) UK</span></span></a></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Media List compiled by World Without
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Edited by Sarah Cochrane and Emma
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;">• </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can add your voice to the petition 'Stop the 16th March marches and Latvians revising history' as of 19.01.2013 by accessing the link directly below:</span><br /><br />
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<a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march</span>_<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></span></a></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p>(E petition for Uk residents now closed as of 19/01/2013 . 519 votes)</o:p></span></b><br />
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<strong>Recent Media Coverage October 2012</strong><br />
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1. The Jewish Chronicle <em>'The Little European Problem Conservatives would prefer to forget'</em> by Martin Bright, political editor for the JC</div>
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2. The Spectator '<em>Taking Stock of Politics After The Conferences' </em>by Martin Bright, political editor for the JC</div>
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3. Second Generation Forum <em>'Latvia's Nazi Nostalgia' </em>by Monica Lowenberg, initiator of petition 'Stop the 16th March marches and Latvians revising history'<br />
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4. <a href="http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/88135/eu-real-problem-not-latvia">http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/88135/eu-real-problem-not-latvia</a><br />
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<em>EU- Real problem is not Latvia</em> by Daniel Hannan (British conservative MP) , 26 October 2012 published in the Jewish Chronicle and response by Monica Lowenberg published in The Jewish Chronicle, Letters section, 2 November 2012 <em>'A Special Kind of Blindness'</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=zT3RzTJ4W6F0KM:&imgrefurl=http://defendinghistory.com/category/human-rights&docid=D8tJJsfQ4D5gAM&imgurl=http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/JC-letters-by-R-Copper-D-Sumberg-M-Lowenberg-2-Nov-2012.jpg&w=1126&h=1317&ei=vTLkUJCVOZHN0AWT94Bo&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=773&vpy=104&dur=2247&hovh=243&hovw=208&tx=61&ty=265&sig=107446595997247810593&page=1&tbnh=146&tbnw=125&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:106" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/imgres?<wbr></wbr>um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=<wbr></wbr>1024&bih=643&tbm=isch&tbnid=<wbr></wbr>zT3RzTJ4W6F0KM:&imgrefurl=<wbr></wbr>http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>category/human-rights&docid=<wbr></wbr>D8tJJsfQ4D5gAM&imgurl=http://<wbr></wbr>defendinghistory.com/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2012/11/JC-<wbr></wbr>letters-by-R-Copper-D-Sumberg-<wbr></wbr>M-Lowenberg-2-Nov-2012.jpg&w=<wbr></wbr>1126&h=1317&ei=<wbr></wbr>vTLkUJCVOZHN0AWT94Bo&zoom=1&<wbr></wbr>iact=hc&vpx=773&vpy=104&dur=<wbr></wbr>2247&hovh=243&hovw=208&tx=61&<wbr></wbr>ty=265&sig=<wbr></wbr>107446595997247810593&page=1&<wbr></wbr>tbnh=146&tbnw=125&start=0&<wbr></wbr>ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0,i:<wbr></wbr>106</a></div>
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5. DefendingHistory.com <em>'End of the World. And the Day After' </em>by Monica Lowenberg, author of petition, 'HE Ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė Liauškienė, Lithuanian Ambassador London, UK: Abandon state sponsored Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Obfuscation'<br />
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<a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/he-ambassador-asta-skaisgirytė-liauškienė-lithuanian-ambassador-london-uk-abandon-state-sponsored-anti-semitism-and-holocaust-obfuscation" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.change.org/en-GB/<wbr></wbr>petitions/he-ambassador-asta-<wbr></wbr>skaisgirytė-liauškienė-<wbr></wbr>lithuanian-ambassador-london-<wbr></wbr>uk-abandon-state-sponsored-<wbr></wbr>anti-semitism-and-holocaust-<wbr></wbr>obfuscation</span></a><br />
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6. <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/01/europe-democracy-or-barbarisim" target="_blank">http://www.newstatesman.com/<wbr></wbr>world-affairs/2013/01/europe-<wbr></wbr>democracy-or-barbarisim</a> Benjamin Abtan <em>President of the </em><a href="http://egam-eu.blogspot.co.uk/"><em>European Grassroots Antiracist Movement</em></a> open letter to Chancellor Merkel 'Europe: Democracy or Barbarism?' published in New Statesman 30.01.2013<br />
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7. <a href="http://defendinghistory.com/camerons-latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss-march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105#more-51105">http://defendinghistory.com/camerons-latvian-liaison-one-womans-petition-and-one-ss-march-by-monica-lowenberg/51105#more-51105</a> <em>Cameron's Latvian Liaison, One Woman's Petition and One SS March</em> by Monica Lowenberg published in Defending History.com 15.03.2013</div>
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Center of Human Rights.”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> – Information about petitions and a collection of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.humanrights.org.lv/html/30659.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.humanrights.org.lv/html/30659.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://imhoclub.lv/material/latishskie-nacisti-oskvernili-venok"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://imhoclub.lv/material/latishskie-nacisti-oskvernili-venok</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Alexandre Guilmant: Why are there anti-fascists</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/versions/aleksandr-gilman-zachem-nuzhny-antifashisty.d?id=42223680"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/versions/aleksandr-gilman-zachem-nuzhny-antifashisty.d?id=42223680</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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‘Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - Shocked at what he saw</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An American human rights activist speaks out </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209393"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209393</span></span></a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">5. “IMHOCLUB”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> – A <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Latvian 21st Century Nazi Calendar is being</span>
sold in bookshops across the country!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://imhoclub.lv/material/kalendar-21-go-veka"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://imhoclub.lv/material/kalendar-21-go-veka</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">6. “IMHOCLUB”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Gomberg Vs Alekseev,
two speeches</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://imhoclub.lv/material/gomberg-vs-alekseev"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://imhoclub.lv/material/gomberg-vs-alekseev</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7. “IMHOCLUB”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - My purpose was to
discredit the myth about “Freedom Fighters”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://imhoclub.lv/material/razvenchat-mif-o-borcah-za-svobodu"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://imhoclub.lv/material/razvenchat-mif-o-borcah-za-svobodu</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">8.
“MIXNEWS”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Anti-Fascists
urge the Baltic States to think again <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/society/news/2012-03-17/91545"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/society/news/2012-03-17/91545</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">9.
“MIXNEWS”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Incident
at Milda: Supporters of Legionaries destroy and hide a wreath dedicated to the
victims of Hitler’s Nazis (VIDEO)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/exclusive/news/2012-03-16/91454"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.mixnews.lv/ru/exclusive/news/2012-03-16/91454</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">10.
“Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"Such
a picture you won’t see anywhere in Europe!" <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Taken March, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209021"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209021</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">11. “The
Baltic Course”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
- Memorandum of the round table focusing on the problem of right-wing radicalism
in the Baltics<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">ht<a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/rus/konferencii/?doc=54745"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">tp://www.baltic-course.com/rus/konferencii/?doc=54745</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">12. “The
Baltic Course”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
- Daugavas Vanagi: “On March 16 we will march in Riga”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/rus/pravo/?doc=54645"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.baltic-course.com/rus/pravo/?doc=54645</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">13. “baltijalv.lv”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Latvia could have problems with membership in
the European Union<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://baltijalv.lv/news/read/18637"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://baltijalv.lv/news/read/18637</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">14. “TVNET”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - <span style="color: #262626;">The Israeli press speaks negatively about Legionnaires’
day march (video included)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.tvnet.lv/novosti/obschjestvo/195076-jevrjeyskiy_parlamjent_bjerzinsh_unizil_latviju_vidjeo"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.tvnet.lv/novosti/obschjestvo/195076-jevrjeyskiy_parlamjent_bjerzinsh_unizil_latviju_vidjeo</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15.
“partylife.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">-
Reactions from politicians and the public in response to the president of Latvia
supporting fascists and the Legionnaires March in Riga</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.partylife.lv/video.php?subaction=showfull&id=1332006889&archive=&cnshow=news&start_from=&ucat=7&"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.partylife.lv/video.php?subaction=showfull&id=1332006889&archive=&cnshow=news&start_from=&ucat=7&</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">16. “The
Baltic Course”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
- Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia: “The annual scenario on March 16 is
unacceptable!” </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.baltic-course.com/rus/pravo/?doc=54678"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.baltic-course.com/rus/pravo/?doc=54678</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">17.
“novonews”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">International Human Rights Movement</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> “A World Without Nazism”, urges
companies to freeze business contacts with Latvia<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://novonews.tvnet.lv/novosti/politika/195567-mir_bjez_nacizma_prizval_zamorozit_djelovije_kontakti_s_latvijey"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://novonews.tvnet.lv/novosti/politika/195567-mir_bjez_nacizma_prizval_zamorozit_djelovije_kontakti_s_latvijey</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">18. “telegraf.lv”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - The Jewish parliament stands
up against the parade of Legionnaires<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.telegraf.lv/news/evreiskii-parlament-protiv-parada-legionerov"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraf.lv/news/evreiskii-parlament-protiv-parada-legionerov</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">19. “telegraf.lv”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Anti-fascists will
appeal to the court regarding the wreath spoiled at Milda.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.telegraf.lv/news/antifashisty-obratyat-sya-v-sud-za-isporchennyi-u-mildy-venok"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraf.lv/news/antifashisty-obratyat-sya-v-sud-za-isporchennyi-u-mildy-venok</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">20. “telegraf.lv”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Only 2000 marchers and
1, 200 police, photographs of the 2012 march by Valery Yegorov.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.telegraf.lv/news/otzvuki-shestviya-legionerov-foto"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraf.lv/news/otzvuki-shestviya-legionerov-foto</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">21.
“Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Another
year, another march. Article about 2012’s Legionnaires’ March.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209015"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209015</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22.
“Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rasnacs says: “Tatyana
Zhdanok MEP should have been arrested immediately at the Monument of Freedom,
Riga.”<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/208949"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/208949</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">23. “Ves.lv”</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">- Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff says the problem
lies not in historical facts but how they are interpreted <o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/208824"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.ves.lv/article/208824</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">24.
“Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Article on western
coverage of the Legionnaires’ Day March.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209325"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209325</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">25.
“Ves.lv”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do you bow to
executioners too?! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President states that
we should bow our heads to the Waffen SS Latvian Legion. To declare them as
criminals is nonsense!<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">h<a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/207424"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">ttp://www.ves.lv/article/207424</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><strong><em>26. “chas.lv”</em></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> - You yourself are the victims!
: Blog post regarding the wreath placed to commemorate victims of Nazism that
was subsequently destroyed by young Legionnaire fans <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.chas.lv/blog/301-blogchas/21244-sami-vy-zhertvy.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.chas.lv/blog/301-blogchas/21244-sami-vy-zhertvy.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">27.
“</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">chas.lv<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">”</span></span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> - </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nazism under a microscope: a
look into Nazism in Latvia today<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.chas.lv/politics/314-2011-01-11-10-52-01/21183-2012-03-16-l039.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.chas.lv/politics/314-2011-01-11-10-52-01/21183-2012-03-16-l039.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">28.
“DELFI”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Koren states: The president has forgotten about The Arajs Gang<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/koren-prezident-zabyl-pro-komandu-arajsa.d?id=42169892"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/koren-prezident-zabyl-pro-komandu-arajsa.d?id=42169892</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">29.
“DELFI”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anti-fascists are willing to sue the organisers of the march of the
Legionnaires</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-gotovy-suditsya-s-organizatorami-shestviya-legionerov.d?id=42218606"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-gotovy-suditsya-s-organizatorami-shestviya-legionerov.d?id=42218606</span></span></a><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">30.
“DELFI”-</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
Video of the 16 March 2010 Legionnaires march<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shpigel: “Riga’s police
supported neo-Nazis!”<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/shpigel-rizhskaya-policiya-podderzhala-neonacistov.d?id=42220416"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/shpigel-rizhskaya-policiya-podderzhala-neonacistov.d?id=42220416</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">32.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aboltina urged ministers
to not participate in the procession on March 16 2012<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/aboltinya-prizvala-ministrov-ne-uchastvovat-v-shestvii-16-marta.d?id=42144118"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/aboltinya-prizvala-ministrov-ne-uchastvovat-v-shestvii-16-marta.d?id=42144118</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“DELFI”</em></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anti-fascists prepare for an international conference</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-gotovyat-mezhdunarodnuyu-konferenciyu-priedet-zuroff.d?id=42209620"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-gotovyat-mezhdunarodnuyu-konferenciyu-priedet-zuroff.d?id=42209620</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">34.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Anti-fascists: “Manifestations of Nazism are related to Russo
phobia”</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-proyavleniya-nacizma-svyazany-s-rusofobiej.d?id=42213616"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/antifashisty-proyavleniya-nacizma-svyazany-s-rusofobiej.d?id=42213616</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">35.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On March 16: court allows
anti-fascists to protest against march<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/16-marta-sud-razreshil-meropriyatiya-antifashistov.d?id=42202322"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/16-marta-sud-razreshil-meropriyatiya-antifashistov.d?id=42202322</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">36.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Actions on March 16:
three people detained<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/meropriyatiya-16-marta-zaderzhano-tri-cheloveka.d?id=42212936"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/meropriyatiya-16-marta-zaderzhano-tri-cheloveka.d?id=42212936</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Deputies will discuss the
historical significance of March 16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/deputaty-obsudyat-istoricheskoe-znachenie-16-marta.d?id=42153840"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/deputaty-obsudyat-istoricheskoe-znachenie-16-marta.d?id=42153840</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Photo report of March 16,
2012, Riga<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://reporter.delfi.lv/news/witness/fotoreportazh-16-marta-v-rige-glazami-ochevidca.d?id=42213848"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://reporter.delfi.lv/news/witness/fotoreportazh-16-marta-v-rige-glazami-ochevidca.d?id=42213848</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - War veterans urged to refrain from March 16th confrontation</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">h<a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/veterany-vojny-prizyvayut-vozderzhatsya-16-marta-ot-konfrontacii.d?id=42171700"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">ttp://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/veterany-vojny-prizyvayut-vozderzhatsya-16-marta-ot-konfrontacii.d?id=42171700</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">40.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dzintars: “March 16th—a day
of national resistance and unity”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/dzintars-16-marta-den-nacionalnogo-soprotivleniya-i-edinstva.d?id=42170810"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/dzintars-16-marta-den-nacionalnogo-soprotivleniya-i-edinstva.d?id=42170810</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">41.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The court allowed Freymanisa
to carry out picket on March 16<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/sud-razreshil-frejmanisu-provesti-piket-16-marta.d?id=42200886"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/sud-razreshil-frejmanisu-provesti-piket-16-marta.d?id=42200886</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">42.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alexander Gilman: Why
anti-fascists are necessary<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/versions/aleksandr-gilman-zachem-nuzhny-antifashisty.d?id=42223680"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/versions/aleksandr-gilman-zachem-nuzhny-antifashisty.d?id=42223680</span></span></a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">43.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Actions passed on March
16 are surprisingly calm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/meropriyatiya-16-marta-proshli-na-udivlenie-spokojno.d?id=42213386"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/meropriyatiya-16-marta-proshli-na-udivlenie-spokojno.d?id=42213386</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">44.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - A 24 hour </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">News feed regarding the procession
of the Latvian Legionnaires, Riga, March/16/2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/v-rige-sostoyalos-shestvie-latyshskih-legionerov.d?id=42211722"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/v-rige-sostoyalos-shestvie-latyshskih-legionerov.d?id=42211722</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">45.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> – </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">‘</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The world without Nazism’: Latvia glorifies again the
Legionnaires of the Waffen SS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/mir-bez-nacizma-v-latvii-snova-proslavlyayut-legionerov-ss.d?id=42209494"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/mir-bez-nacizma-v-latvii-snova-proslavlyayut-legionerov-ss.d?id=42209494</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">46.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ministry of Foreign
Affairs: “Creation of Legion — A Nazi Crime”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/mid-sozdanie-legiona-prestuplenie-nacistov.d?id=42207212"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/mid-sozdanie-legiona-prestuplenie-nacistov.d?id=42207212</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">47.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Huffington Post: Nazis
march in Europe again!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/huffington-post-v-evrope-snova-marshiruyut-nacisty.d?id=42206104"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/huffington-post-v-evrope-snova-marshiruyut-nacisty.d?id=42206104</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">48.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626;">“DELFI”</span></i></b><span style="color: #262626;"> -</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The ex-president urged ruling politicians to
explain the importance of the March 16<sup>th</sup> march<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/eks-prezident-prizvala-pravyaschih-politikov-razyasnyat-miru-znachenie-16-marta.d?id=42201484"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/eks-prezident-prizvala-pravyaschih-politikov-razyasnyat-miru-znachenie-16-marta.d?id=42201484</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">49.
“DELFI”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ombudsman: “It is not
necessary to forbid the March 16<sup>th</sup> march”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/ombudsmen-ne-sleduet-zapreschat-provedenie-zayavlennyh-na-16-marta-meropriyatij.d?id=42197462"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/politics/ombudsmen-ne-sleduet-zapreschat-provedenie-zayavlennyh-na-16-marta-meropriyatij.d?id=42197462</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">50. “telegraf.lv”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - <span style="color: #262626;">Anti-fascists around the world are gathering signatures
on the internet to prevent Legionnaires' march on March 16, Riga and neo-Nazis
in Vilnius on March 11.</span><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.telegraf.lv/news/internet-protiv-legionerov"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraf.lv/news/internet-protiv-legionerov</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">51.
Newspaper “Vesty segodnya”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Legionnaires' march </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/208803" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/208803</span></span></a></span></li>
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gear </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/208636" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/208636</span></span></a></span></li>
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again and so do the deputies </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209015" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209015</span></span></a></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #262626; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"The war is not
over..." </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209184" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209184</span></span></a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #262626; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“In captivity”-
Myths surrounding the Legionnaires </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209178" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209178</span></span></a></span></li>
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16 March. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/208713" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/208713</span></span></a></span></li>
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against compromise with Russian and eastern neighbour - Nationalism
infects the clergy </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209253/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209253/</span></span></a></span></li>
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legionnaires continue to be praised </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209186" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209186</span></span></a></span></li>
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soon to be given special status and benefits </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.ves.lv/article/209018"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ves.lv/article/209018</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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“petitions24”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> – International Petition against the 16 March Waffen
SS marches</span></div>
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gov”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
- <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stop the 16 March marches and
Latvians revising history! [UK PETITION] <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27795"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27795</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Stop The 16 March Marches in Riga.’</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> - Blog with all updates
and plenty of information by Monica Lowenberg<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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– </i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Monica
Lowenberg's correspondence with the ambassador of Latvia <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Michael Goldfarb<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/europe/waffen-ss-commemoration-riga-latvia"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/europe/waffen-ss-commemoration-riga-latvia</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Post” (UK) – </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eastern Europe’s Hitler Nostalgia by Michael
Goldfarb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/series/echoes-hitler"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">www.globalpost.com/series/echoes-hitler</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“The New Statesman” (UK) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Why does Latvia still honor the
Waffen-SS? By Dr Denis MacShane MP and open letter to Dr Denis MacShane by
Monica Lowenberg</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.”AJR” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(UK) </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf</span></span></a> AJR Journal
(Association of Jewish Refugees, UK), Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 'Latvia: A
Personal March Through History' by Monica Lowenberg <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(UK) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Calls
to ban Baltic neo-Nazi marches by Emma Stock</span></div>
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“15min.It”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(UK)-</i></b>
International petitions call to ban neo-Nazi marches in Latvia and Lithuania by
Emma Stock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Teacher fights to stop Latvian march
that treats Nazi's like "heroes" by Anna Slater and Emma Stock</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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to stop Latvian march that treats Nazi's like "heroes" by Anna Slater
and Emma Stock</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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plans to hold rally to commemorate SS by Will Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“The Anglo-Baltic News” (UK) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">UK collecting
signatures against the Latvian Legionnaires’ March </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.anglobalticnews.co.uk/profiles/blogs/4477516:BlogPost:69010"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.anglobalticnews.co.uk/profiles/blogs/4477516:BlogPost:69010</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“BBC” (UK) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #363636; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Latvian Nazi unit veterans’ march 2010
and country profile of Latvia 2012</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8570945.stm"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8570945.stm</span></span></a><span class="detailtitle"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Reuters (USA/UK) – Pictures </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wiesenthal Center director
Zuroff attends protest against annual procession commemorating Latvian Waffen
SS unit, the Legionnaires, in Riga.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/multimedia/pictures/detail.dot?mediaInode=a4bdb6e8-2a85-410f-af71-29c98177741d"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.trust.org/alertnet/multimedia/pictures/detail.dot?mediaInode=a4bdb6e8-2a85-410f-af71-29c98177741d</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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- <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Monica Lowenberg writes on last
month’s controversial march of Latvian SS veterans<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy?template=het_blog"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy?template=het_blog</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">20. “PCAA
foundation” (UK) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Calls
to ban the Baltic’s neo-Nazi marches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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PM and Ambassador condone Waffen-SS commemoration.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="RU" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/139/waffen-ss-commemoration-in-riga"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/international/article/139/waffen-ss-commemoration-in-riga</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“StopNazism.net” </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://stopnazism.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/waffen-ss-legionnaires-and-march-march-16th-background/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: blue;">http://stopnazism.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/waffen-ss-legionnaires-and-march-march-16th-background/</span></span></a>
‘What is March 16<sup>th</sup>?’ published by Latvia without Nazism by Monica
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- </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heroes or villains? Latvian SS march angers
Russians.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/heroes-villains-latvian-ss-march-angers-russians-194936218.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://news.yahoo.com/heroes-villains-latvian-ss-march-angers-russians-194936218.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“The Huffington Post” (USA) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Nazi
Resurgence in Europe: The Waffen-SS Marches Again by Richard Brodsky</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/the-nazi-resurgence-in-europe_b_1331666.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/the-nazi-resurgence-in-europe_b_1331666.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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UPI - Inform Agency (USA) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #03241c; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Waffen SS veterans march in Riga</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/03/16/Waffen-SS-veterans-march-in-Riga/UPI-46341331930468/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/03/16/Waffen-SS-veterans-march-in-Riga/UPI-46341331930468/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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CBS News Agency (USA) – </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: -1pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: .5pt;">Latvians pay annual tribute to Waffen SS by Gary Peach</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57398741/latvians-pay-annual-tribute-to-waffen-ss-fighters/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57398741/latvians-pay-annual-tribute-to-waffen-ss-fighters/</span></span></a></span><br />
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Journal” (USA) </i></b>Latvia Still Honors the Biggest Jew-Killing Machine in
World History</span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/18/latvia-still-honors-the-biggest-jew-killing-machine-in-world-history/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/03/18/latvia-still-honors-the-biggest-jew-killing-machine-in-world-history/</span></span></a></span><br />
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(Canada) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Latvian
SS veterans’ march sparks anger by Patrick Lannin and Aleks Tapinsh, Reuters<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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“Israel National News” (Israel) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Nazi March proceeds in a generally
‘peaceful’ manner by Rachel Hirschfeld<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153838#.T2UTnREgeSp"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153838#.T2UTnREgeSp</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Our Café” (Israel) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">March of
the Waffen SS Legion in Riga, shocked the world!</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://nashe.orbita.co.il/blogs/worldnews/28183"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://nashe.orbita.co.il/blogs/worldnews/28183</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“Die Tageszeitung Junge Welt” (Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">SS-tribute by law? By
Frank Brendle</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_35-131.htm"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_35-131.htm</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“Baltische Rundschau” (Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Veterans march ended without
incident<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.baltische-rundschau.eu/2012/03/16/veteranenmarsch-ohne-zwischenfalle-beendet/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.baltische-rundschau.eu/2012/03/16/veteranenmarsch-ohne-zwischenfalle-beendet/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“Suddeutsche Zeitung” (Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Latvian SS veterans
march through Riga</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/2.220/ehemalige-ns-kollaborateure-lettische-ss-veteranen-marschieren-durch-riga-1.1310836"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/2.220/ehemalige-ns-kollaborateure-lettische-ss-veteranen-marschieren-durch-riga-1.1310836</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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- </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Riga bans Waffen-SS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>march</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/1330390591974/Riga-verbietet-Aufmarsch-der-Waffen-SS-Veteranen"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://derstandard.at/1330390591974/Riga-verbietet-Aufmarsch-der-Waffen-SS-Veteranen</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“Der Standard” (Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">High numbers march with the Waffen SS
veterans<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://derstandard.at/1331779852131/Hohe-Beteiligung-bei-Aufmarsch-der-Waffen-SS-Veteranen"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://derstandard.at/1331779852131/Hohe-Beteiligung-bei-Aufmarsch-der-Waffen-SS-Veteranen</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Abendblatt” (Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Parade of veterans by Gerhard Gnauck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article2217992/Aufmarsch-der-Veteranen.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article2217992/Aufmarsch-der-Veteranen.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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march in Riga<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
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“Thoughts about Estonia. (blog)” (Germany) – </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Are the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>Veterans
of the Waffen-SS freedom fighters?</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://kloty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-als.html"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: blue;">http://kloty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-als.html</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(Germany) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Day of collaborators</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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Telegraaf” (Holland) – </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The
<span style="color: #262626;">controversial memorial march in Latvia goes ahead </span><a href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/11731494/__Omstreden_mars_Letse_SS_ers__.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/11731494/__Omstreden_mars_Letse_SS_ers__.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.russian.rfi.fr/evropa/20120316-marsh-v-pamyat-o-latyshskom-legione-waffen-ss"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.russian.rfi.fr/evropa/20120316-marsh-v-pamyat-o-latyshskom-legione-waffen-ss</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(Belgium) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The march of the Latvian Waffen-SS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“eastjournal.net” (Italy) - </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The "Waffen SS" show in Riga by
Giovanni Bensi<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(Italy) – </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In the General Assembly of the UN, U.S. and EU countries voted
against a resolution tabled by Russia, which condemns the glorification of
Nazism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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march in Riga took place under the slogan "No Nazis!”</span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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was one of the most disgusting spectacles he has witnessed in his life<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://baltija.eu/news/read/23452"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://baltija.eu/news/read/23452</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>57. <em>Jewish News (UK)</em></strong> -<em>Shoah Denial is being replaced by an illusive and delusive evil</em> by Dovid Katz Defending History.com page 11 <span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">August 2012</span></span></div>
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58. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thousands-pay-tribute-to-latvias-fallen-nazi-troops-1922388.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/thousands-pay-tribute-to-latvias-fallen-nazi-troops-1922388.html</a> <br />
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59. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/03/latvia-far-right-nazi-links">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/03/latvia-far-right-nazi-links</a> <strong><em>Latvia's far right: Inconvenient truths that the Tories ignore</em></strong> by Peter Beaumont The Guardian Oct 3 2009</div>
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<em>The Tories' new rightwing European allies have provoked a debate over the second world war that is long overdue</em> by Efraim Zuroff published in The Guardian 14 October, 2009</div>
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62. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/conservatives-europe-miliband-hague-kaminski">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/29/conservatives-europe-miliband-hague-kaminski</a> </div>
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<em>Michal Kaminski might support Israel, but so does Nick Griffin. The Polish chief rabbi's remarks do not exculpate him</em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">“Rossiskaya gazeta” - </span></i></b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Who makes</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span class="hps">heroes</span>
<span class="hps">of Nazis</span> <span class="hps">in Latvia?</span><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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RIA “News” РИА «Новости»- </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Waffen
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Inform agency «Regnum»<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1512524.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1512524.html</span></span></a>; <span class="hps">The State Duma</span> <span class="hps">of the Russian Federation</span>
<span class="hps">states that Nazism has been rehabilitated</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1511747.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1511747.html</span></span></a>; TV
Channel accused of distorting the news story on Latvia’s Legionnaires’ day<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1511655.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1511655.html</span></span></a>; <span class="hps">Events</span> <span class="hps">on March 16 in</span> <span class="hps">Riga left</span> <span class="hps">a taint of</span> <span class="hps">scandal: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>member of
Anti-Nazism Association was arrested </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510968.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510968.html</span></span></a>; The
history of the Latvian armed forces that were during the Second World War
known as "the Latvian Legion”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/ne%20ws/1510516.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/ne ws/1510516.html</span></span></a>
Association against Nazism laid wreath at Freedom monument, Latvia, in “Memory
of the Victims of Nazism". <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510720.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510720.html</span></span></a>;
Pro-Nazi march in Riga took place under the slogan "No Nazis!"<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo9;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510751.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.regnum.ru/news/1510751.html</span></span></a>;
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Latvia says: “Events on March 16 in Riga
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7.
Site «Poilt.ru»- </span></i></b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">On the</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span class="hps">glorification</span>
<span class="hps">of Nazism</span> <span class="hps">in Latvia -</span> <span class="hps">Statement by the President</span> <span class="hps">of International</span>
<span class="hps">human rights movement</span><span class="atn"> ‘</span>A world
without <span class="hps">Nazism’</span><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.polit.ru/article/2012/03/20/spiegel/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.polit.ru/article/2012/03/20/spiegel/</span></span></a></span><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">8.
Site of the international human rights movement «A world without Nazism»<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.stopnazism.net/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">www.stopnazism.net</span></span></a>;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://stopnazism.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/waffen-ss-legionnaires-and-march-march-16th-background/"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://stopnazism.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/waffen-ss-legionnaires-and-march-march-16th-background/</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newspaper “Kommersant”, «Коммерсант» </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Waffen SS Veterans march in Latvia on the 16 March 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.kommersant.ru/pda/news.html?id=1895006"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.kommersant.ru/pda/news.html?id=1895006</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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INTERFAX,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«ИНТЕРФАКС»
–"Rusichi", Orthodox news agency «Russian line»- </span></i></b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">"</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">A world without <span class="hps">Nazism</span>" <span class="hps">movement</span> calls <span class="hps">to freeze</span> <span class="hps">business contacts</span> <span class="hps">with Latvia</span> <span class="hps">due to the</span> <span class="hps">SS
Legionnaires’</span> <span class="hps">March</span><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.rusichi-center.ru/e/2929435-dvizhenie-mir-bez-natsizma-prizyivaet-zamoroz"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.rusichi-center.ru/e/2929435-dvizhenie-mir-bez-natsizma-prizyivaet-zamoroz</span></span></a>;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Inform Agency “Rosbalt”,«Росбалт» </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">‘A World Without Nazism’: “Riga police
supported the neo-Nazis!” <a href="http://www.rosbalt.ru/exussr/2012/03/20/959507.html"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.rosbalt.ru/exussr/2012/03/20/959507.html</span></span></a><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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Observer”,«Русский Обозреватель» </i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Facts and history regarding the Legionnaires’
Day March, Latvia</span></span></div>
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“NewsBalt” website: </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Latvian calendar which </span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">honors
SS Legionnaires is </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">released and in bookshops!</span></div>
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The first channel of Russia TV- </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Latvia’s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Legion
Remembrance Day<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
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PBK, РБК- </span></i></b><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">SS Legionnaires' Day</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">march</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">in Riga</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">angers</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Moscow’s
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Legionnaires’ Day march; Latvia is named a disgrace</span></div>
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"Latvia without Nazism" (Latvia) and Dr Tatjana Ždanoka (Tatyana
Zhdanok), EP deputy (Latvia) try to restore the wreath to the victims of Nazism
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Nazism" (Latvia) Dr Tatjana Ždanoka (Tatyana Zhdanok), EP deputy (Latvia)
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last Friday's Waffen SS celebration in central Riga was Joel Rubinfeld,
co-president of the European Jewish Parliament (Brussels). 'You are here to
enforce the law!' Joel Rubinfeld tells a Latvian policeman.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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History.com</i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjKZZK9k-Mo" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjKZZK9k-Mo</span></a><br />
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scenes showing the desecration of the wreath to the victims of Nazism;
interviews with brave protesters including Janis Kuzins, (Latvia, Chairman of
the Board for Associated Diversified Trade Unions); interviews with protester
Kazimier Andrushkevich (Lithuania), Helmut Scholz, (Germany, MEP), Leonid Bard,
(USA, America without Nazism); international round table discussion attended by
the above demonstrators and including: Thilo Janssen, ( Germany, Assistant for
Gabriele Zimmer MEP), Dr Valery Engel, (Latvia, Vice Chairman for World Without
Nazism ,International Human Rights Movement), Artur Nevicky, ( Latvia, Chairman
of Societies of National Minorities of Latvia), Algirdas Paleckis (Lithuania,
Lithuania without Nazism), Masha Girshin (USA, Blue Card) and service given by
Lutheran priest to SS veterans next to SS plaque and desecrated wreath to the
victims of Nazism on the steps of the Monument of Freedom, central Riga, Latvia.</strong></span><br />
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'Have you read David Irving by the way?' asks a young Latvian man, (who claimed
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</span>Algirdas Paleckis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mix TV-</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man plays ‘<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Farewell of Slavianka’ (</span>by composer </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Agapkin" title="Vasily Agapkin"><span style="color: black;">Vasily Agapkin</span></a><span style="color: black;">) during
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">13.ltvzinas.lv</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Laying of flowers and
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Legionnaires March, 2012, from the <span class="hps">anti-fascist camp</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Russian
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PBK News</span></i></span><span class="title8"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">: Legionnaires’ March: </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once
again the month of March marks Latvia</span></span><span class="longtext"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">with one
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Day Motions made by Dr Barry Gardiner (Labour MP) and Bob Blackman (Conservative
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Without Nazism-International Human Rights Movement</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <b>Monitoring the social foundations of the revival of Nazi
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://stopnazism.net/?page_id=231"><span style="color: #0438c6;">http://stopnazism.net/?page_id=231</span></a><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">In the framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts
country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the
member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and
proposals for dealing with the problems identified. In the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">report on Latvia <span style="color: #262626;">published on February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as
regards the authorisation of certain public events to commemorate two incidents
and the authorities’ reaction in this connection. As concerns the first
incident, every year, on 16 March, a gathering commemorating soldiers who
fought in a Latvian unit of the Waffen SS is held in the centre of Riga. In
this connection, ECRI regrets that, in spring 2010, an administrative district
court overruled a decision of the Riga City Council 27 prohibiting this march.
Moreover, ECRI is concerned that the speaker of the Latvian Parliament
allegedly publicly expressed regret for the formal prohibition of this event
and that certain MPs have voted for the restoration of March 16 as day of
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statement concerning Waffen SS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>march
2012<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><a href="http://stopnazism.net/?p=3238"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://stopnazism.net/?p=3238</span></span></a></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>1. <a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march</span>_<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></span></a></o:p></span></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1313498706352487687.post-24930205245034646882012-05-13T01:31:00.002-07:002012-05-16T03:57:14.593-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">British Speeches of the Day- Lest We Forget!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Churchill's Victory Speech, 13 May 1945</span><br />
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In light of the four days of scheduled festivities this week (17, 18, 19, 20 May 2012) in honor of the flying over from the US and reburial with full honours of the remains of the pro-Nazi "prime minister" of the 1941 Hitler puppet government in Kaunas (that presided, in effect, over the launch of the Lithuanian Holocaust) it is perhaps pertinent for us to remember Churchill's victory speech of the 13 May, 1945. '<strong>Never before in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few', </strong>by allowing such despicable events to take place in an EU country we clearly have forgotten.<br />
<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450513a.html">http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450513a.html</a><br />
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<strong>English translation of the program of events to honor the head of the 1941 Nazi puppet government in Lithuania:</strong><br />
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<strong>Program of events at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas on 19 May 2012:</strong><br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/will-the-19th-of-may-2012-by-a-day-of-shame-for-vytautas-magnus-university-vytauto-didziojo-universitetas-in-kaunas/34912">http://defendinghistory.com/will-the-19th-of-may-2012-by-a-day-of-shame-for-vytautas-magnus-university-vytauto-didziojo-universitetas-in-kaunas/34912</a> <br />
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<strong>Petition against events at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas on 19 May 2012</strong><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/the-faculty-and-students-of-vytautas-magnus-university-in-kaunas-lithuania-cancel-a-memorial-conference-on-19-may-2012-honoring-juozas-brazaitis-2" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">http://www.change.org/<wbr></wbr>petitions/the-faculty-and-<wbr></wbr>students-of-vytautas-magnus-<wbr></wbr>university-in-kaunas-<wbr></wbr>lithuania-cancel-a-memorial-<wbr></wbr>conference-on-19-may-2012-<wbr></wbr>honoring-juozas-brazaitis-2</a><br />
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<strong>Comment by Dr Efraim Zuroff in the Jerusalem Post 15.05.2012 regarding the honoring of Juozas Ambrazeviãius 'Lithuania's Shame'</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=270124" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/<wbr></wbr>Op-EdContributors/Article.<wbr></wbr>aspx?id=270124</a><br />
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<strong>PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST ON "FIVE YEARS OF WAR"</strong><br />
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<strong>May 13, 1945</strong> <br />
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It was five years ago on Thursday last that His Majesty the King commissioned me to form a National Government of all parties to carry on our affairs. Five years is a long time in human life, especially when there is no remission for good conduct. However, aided-by loyal and capable colleagues and sustained by the entire British nation at home and all our fighting men abroad, and with the unswerving cooperation of the Dominions far across the oceans and of our Empire in every quarter of the globe, it became clear last week that things had worked out pretty well and that the British Commonwealth and Empire stands more united and more effectively powerful than at any time in its long romantic history. Certainly we were in a far better state to cope with the problems and perils of the future than we were five years ago. <br />
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For a while our prime enemy, our mighty enemy, Germany, overran almost all Europe. France, who bore such a frightful strain in the last great war was beaten to the ground and took some time to recover. The Low Countries, fighting to the best of their strength, were subjugated. Norway was overrun. Mussolini's Italy stabbed us in the back when we were, as he thought, at our last gasp. But for ourselves, our lot, I mean the British Commonwealth and Empire, we were absolutely alone. <br />
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In July, August, and September, 1940, forty or fifty squadrons of British fighter aircraft broke the teeth of the German air fleet at odds of seven or eight to one in the Battle of Britain. <strong>Never before in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few</strong>. The name of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding will ever be linked with this splendid event. But conjoined with the Royal Air Force lay the Royal Navy, ever ready to tear to pieces the barges, gathered from the canals of Holland and Belgium, in which an invading army could alone have been transported. I was never one to believe that the invasion of Britain would be an easy task. With the autumn storms, the immediate danger of invasion in 1940 had passed. <br />
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Then began the blitz, when Hitler said he would rub out our cities. This was borne without a word of complaint or the slightest signs of flinching, while a very large number of people-honor to them all-proved that London could take it and so could the other ravaged centers. <br />
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But the dawn of 1941 revealed us still in jeopardy. The hostile aircraft could fly across the approaches to our island, where 46,000,000 people had to import half their daily bread and all the materials they need for peace or war, from Brest to Norway in a single flight or back again, observing all the movements of our shipping in and out of the Clyde and Mersey and directing upon our convoys the large and increasing numbers of U-boats with which the enemy bespattered the Atlantic-the survivors or successors of which are now being collected in British harbors. <br />
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The sense of envelopment, which might at any moment turn to strangulation, lay heavy upon us. We had only the northwestern approach between Ulster and Scotland through which to bring in the means of life and to send out the forces of war. Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. <br />
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This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of Northern Ireland we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with a restraint and poise to which, I say, history will find few parallels, we never laid a violent hand upon them, which at times would have been quite easy and quite natural, and left the de Valera Government to frolic with the German and later with the Japanese representatives to their heart's content. <br />
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When I think of these days I think also of other episodes and personalities. I do not forget Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde, V.C., D.S.O., Lance-Corporal Keneally, V.C., Captain Fegen, V.C., and other Irish heroes that-I could easily recite, and all bitterness by Britain for the Irish race dies in my heart. I can only pray that in years which I shall not see the shame will be forgotten and the glories will endure, and that the peoples of the British Isles and of the British Commonwealth of Nations will walk together in mutual comprehension and forgiveness. <br />
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My friends, we will not forget the devotion of our merchant seamen, the vast, inventive, adaptive, all-embracing and, in the end, all-controlling power of the Royal Navy, with its ever more potent new ally, the air, which have kept the life-line open. We were able to breathe; we were able to live; we were able to strike. Dire deeds we had to do. The destruction or capture of the French fleet which, had it ever passed into German hands would, together with the Italian fleet, have perhaps enabled the German Navy to face us on the high seas. The dispatch to Wavell all round the Cape at our darkest hour, of tanks-practically all we had in the island-enabled us as far back as November, 1940, to defend Egypt against invasion and hurl back with the loss of a quarter of a million captives the Italian armies at whose tail Mussolini had planned a ride into Cairo or Alexandria. <br />
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Great anxiety was felt by President Roosevelt, and indeed by thinking men throughout the United States, about what would happen to us in the early part of 1941. This great President felt to the depth of his being that the destruction of Britain would not only be a fearful event in itself, but that it would expose to mortal danger the vast and as yet largely unarmed potentialities and future destiny of the United States. <br />
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He feared greatly that we should be invaded in that spring of 1941, and no doubt he had behind him military advice as good as any in the world, and he sent his recent Presidential opponent, Mr. Wendell Willkie, to me with a letter in which he had written in his own hand the famous lines of Longfellow, which I quoted in the House of Commons the other day: <br />
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Sail on, O Ship of State!<br />
Sail on, O Union strong and great!<br />
Humanity with all its fears,<br />
With all the hopes of future years,<br />
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!<br />
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We were in a fairly tough condition by the early months of 1941 and felt very much better about ourselves than in the months immediately after the collapse of France. Our Dunkirk army and field force troops in Britain, almost a million strong, were nearly all equipped or re-equipped. We had ferried over the Atlantic a million rifles and a thousand cannon from the United States, with all their ammunition, since the previous June. <br />
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In our munition works, which were becoming very powerful, men and women had worked at their machines till they dropped senseless with fatigue. Nearly one million of men, growing to two millions at the peak, working all day had been formed into the Home Guard, armed at least with rifles and armed also with the spirit "Conquer or Die."<br />
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Later in 1941, when we were still all alone, we sacrificed, to some extent unwillingly, our conquests of the winter in Cyrenaica and Libya in order to stand by Greece, and Greece will never forget how much we gave, albeit unavailingly, of the little we had. We did this for honor. We repressed the German-instigated rising in Iraq. We defended Palestine. With the assistance of General de Gaulle's indomitable Free French we cleared Syria and the Lebanon of Vichyites and of German intrigue. And then in June, 1941, another tremendous world event occurred. <br />
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You have no doubt noticed in your reading of British history that we have sometimes had to hold out all alone, or to be the mainspring of coalitions, against a Continental tyrant or dictator for quite a long time-against the Spanish Armada, against the might of Louis XIV, when we led Europe for nearly twenty-five years under William III and Marlborough and 130 years ago, when Pitt, Wellington, and Nelson broke Napoleon, not without the assistance of the heroic Russians of 1812. In all these world wars our island kept the lead of Europe or else held out alone. <br />
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And if you hold out alone long enough there always comes a time when the tyrant makes some ghastly mistake which alters the whole balance of the struggle. On June 22, 1941, Hitler, master as he thought himself of all Europe, nay indeed soon to be, he thought, master of the world, treacherously, without warning, without the slightest provocation, hurled himself on Russia and came face to face with Marshal Stalin and the numberless millions of the Russian people. And then at the end of the year Japan struck her felon blow at the United States at Pearl Harbor, and at the same time attacked us in Malaya and at Singapore. Thereupon Hitler and Mussolini declared war on the republic of the United States. <br />
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Years have passed since then. Indeed every year seems to me almost a decade. But never since the United States entered the war have I had the slightest doubt but that we should be saved and that we had only to do our duty in order to win. We have played our part in all this process by which the evildoers have been overthrown. I hope I do not speak vain or boastful words. But from Alamein in October, 1942, through the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa, of Sicily and of-Italy, with the capture of Rome, we marched many miles and never knew defeat. <br />
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And then last year, after two years' patient preparation and marvelous devices of amphibious warfare-in my view our scientists are not surpassed by any nation, specially when their thought is applied to naval matters-last year on June 6 we seized a carefully selected little toe of German-occupied France and poured millions in from this island and from across the Atlantic until the Seine, the Somme, and the Rhine all fell behind the advancing Anglo-American spearheads. France was liberated. She produced a fine Army of gallant men to aid her own liberation. Germany lay open. <br />
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And now from the other side, from the East, the mighty military achievements of the Russian people, always holding many more German troops on their front than we could do, rolled forward to meet us in the heart and center of Germany. At the same time in Italy Field-Marshal Alexander's Army of so many nations, the largest part of which was British or British Empire, struck their final blow and compelled more than 1,000,000 enemy troops to surrender. This Fifteenth Army Group, as we call it, are now deep in Austria joining their right hand with the Russians and their left with the United States Armies under General Eisenhower's command. <br />
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It happened that in three days we received the news of the unlamented departures of Mussolini and Hitler, and in three days also surrenders were made to Field-Marshal Alexander and Field-Marshal Montgomery of over 2,500,000 soldiers of this terrible warlike German Army. <br />
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I shall make it clear at this moment that we have never failed to recognize the immense superiority of the power used by the United States in the rescue of France and the defeat of Germany. <br />
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For our part we have had in action about one-third as many men as the Americans, but we have taken our full share of the fighting, as the scale of our losses shows. Our Navy has borne incomparably the heavier burden in the Atlantic Ocean, in the narrow seas and Arctic convoys to Russia, while the United States Navy has used its massive strength mainly against Japan. It is right and natural that we should extol the virtues and glorious services of our own most famous commanders, Alexander and Montgomery, neither of whom was ever defeated since they began together at Alamein, both of whom had conducted in Africa, in Italy, in Normandy and in Germany battles of the first magnitude and of decisive consequences. At the same time we know how great is our debt to the combining and unifying of the command and high strategic direction of General Eisenhower. <br />
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Here is the moment when I must pay my personal tribute to the British Chiefs of the Staff with whom I have worked in the closest intimacy throughout these hard years. There have been very few changes in this powerful and capable body of men who, sinking all Service differences and judging the problems of the war as a whole, have worked together in the closest harmony with each other. In Field-Marshal Brooke, Admiral Pound, Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Marshal of the R.A.F. Portal a power was formed who deserved the highest honor in the direction of the whole British war strategy and its agreement with that of our Allies. <br />
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It may well be said that never have the forces of two nations fought side by side and intermingled into line of battle with so much unity, comradeship, and brotherhood as in the great Anglo-American army. Some people say, "Well, what would you expect, if both nations speak the same language and have the same outlook upon life with all its hope and glory." Others may say, "It would be an ill day for all the world and for the pair of them if they did not go on working together and marching together and sailing together and flying together wherever something has to be done for the sake of freedom and fair play all over the world." <br />
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There was one final danger from which the collapse of Germany has saved us. In London and the southeastern counties we have suffered for a year from various forms of flying bombs and rockets and our Air Force and our Ack-Ack Batteries have done wonders against them. In particular the Air Force, turned on in good time on what then seemed very slight and doubtful evidence, vastly hampered and vastly delayed all German preparations. <br />
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But it was only when our Armies cleaned up the coast and overran all the points of discharge, and when the Americans captured vast stores of rockets of all kinds near Leipzig, and when the preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail, that we knew how grave was the peril, not only from rockets and flying bombs but from multiple long-range artillery. <br />
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Only just in time did the Allied Armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944, to say nothing of 1945, might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin. For the same period the Germans had prepared a new U-boat fleet and novel tactics which, though we should have eventually destroyed them, might well have carried anti-U-boat warfare back to the high peak days of 1942. Therefore we must rejoice and give thanks not only for our preservation when we were all alone but for our timely deliverance from new suffering, new perils not easily to be measured.<br />
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I wish I could tell you tonight that all our toils and troubles were over. Then indeed I could end my five years' service happily, and if you thought you had had enough of me and that I ought to be put out to grass, I assure you I would take it with the best of grace. But, on the contrary, I must warn you, as I did when I began this five years' task-and no one knew then that it would last so long-that there is still a lot to do and that you must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes if you are not to fall back into the rut of inertia, the confusion of aim, and the craven fear of being great. You must not weaken in any way in your alert and vigilant frame of mind, and though holiday rejoicing is necessary to the human spirit, yet it must add to the strength and resilience with which every man and woman turns again to the work they have to do, and also to the outlook and watch they have to keep on public affairs. <br />
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On the continent of Europe we have yet to make sure that the simple and honorable purposes for which we entered the war are not brushed aside or overlooked in the months following our success, and that the words freedom, democracy, and liberation are not distorted from their true meaning as we have understood them. There would be little use in punishing the Hitlerites for their crimes if law and justice did not rule, and if totalitarian or police governments were to take the place of the German invaders. <br />
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We seek nothing for ourselves. But we must make sure that those causes which we fought for find recognition at the peace table in facts as well as words, and above all we must labor that the world organization which the United Nations are creating at San Francisco, does not become an idle name; does not become a shield for the strong and a mockery for the weak. It is the victors who must search their hearts in their glowing hours and be worthy by their nobility of the immense forces that they wield. <br />
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We must never forget that beyond all lurks Japan, harassed and failing but still a people of a hundred millions, for whose warriors death has few terrors. I cannot tell you tonight how much time or what exertions will be required to compel them to make amends for their odious treachery and cruelty. We have received-like China so long undaunted-we have received horrible injuries from them ourselves, and we are bound by the ties of honor and fraternal loyalty to the United States to fight this great war at the other end of the world at their side without flagging or failing. <br />
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We must remember that Australia, New Zealand, and Canada were and are all directly menaced by this evil Power. They came to our aid in our dark times, and we must not leave unfinished any task which concerns their safety and their future. I told you hard things at the beginning of these last five years; you did not shrink, and I should be unworthy of your confidence and generosity if I did not still cry, "Forward, unflinching, unswerving, indomitable, till the whole task is done and the whole world is safe and clean."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1313498706352487687.post-26849870801396356622012-04-24T09:21:00.001-07:002013-01-02T04:59:02.602-08:00<strong>Seventy Years Declaration</strong><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230">http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230</a> <br />
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Early Lithuanian scandal over it at:<br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-foreign-minister-attacks-his-nations-social-democrats-who-signed-the-seventy-years-declaration/29402">http://defendinghistory.com/lithuanian-foreign-minister-attacks-his-nations-social-democrats-who-signed-the-seventy-years-declaration/29402</a><br />
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Some of the press coverage to date (not all) at:<br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/media-coverage-of-the-seventy-years-declaration-2012">http://defendinghistory.com/media-coverage-of-the-seventy-years-declaration-2012</a><br />
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UK signatories listed at:<br />
<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/www.defendinghistory.com/uk#Signatories">http://defendinghistory.com/www.defendinghistory.com/uk#Signatories</a><br />
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which formalised and industrialised the by-then ongoing Holocaust of European
Jewry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that formal adoption of the Final Solution plan by half a year, and began on
the Eastern Front in 1941 upon the initiation of Operation Barbarossa and the
Nazi attack on the Soviet Union<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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under the Nazis and other forms of tyranny in Europe during the Second World
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Recognise:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Nazi campaign of annihilation of the Jewish
people was philosophically, qualitatively and practically profoundly distinct
and different to other forms of oppression experienced by European people
during World War II, such as the horrors of Stalinism also before and after the
War<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Our dismay that the lessons of the Holocaust were
not learnt and genocide continues to occur in the international arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The nobility of Jewish partisans who survived
ghettos or camps and went on to fight the Nazis and their allies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The efforts of European states to acknowledge
forthrightly their role in the Holocaust past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That discussion about genocide in Europe must be
based on the definition of the UN Genocide Convention 1948<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That antisemitism continues in various forms in
Europe and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Reject:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Attempts to obfuscate the Holocaust by diminishing
its uniqueness and deeming it to be equal, similar or equivalent to Communism
as suggested by the 2008 Prague Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 15pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Equating Nazi and Soviet crimes as this blurs the
uniqueness of each and threatens to undermine the important historical lessons
drawn from each of these distinct experiences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Attempts to have European history school books
rewritten to reflect the notion of “Double Genocide” (“equality” or “sameness”
of Nazi and Soviet crimes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="LAF"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="notoglorification"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As unacceptable the glorification of Nazi Allies, and of Holocaust
perpetrators and collaborators, including the Waffen SS in Estonia and Latvia,
and the Lithuanian Activist Front in Lithuania<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Attempts to legalise or sanitize the public display
of the swastika by racist and fascist groups<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Efforts to have the Holocaust remembered on one
common day with the victims of Communism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Advocate:</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Distinct days and distinct programs to remember the
Holocaust and other victims of other twentieth century totalitarian regimes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">EU member states continue efforts to acknowledge
their own roles in the destruction of European Jewry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The need for ongoing genuine Holocaust education
and memorialisation across the European Union<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Opposition to all forms of contemporary racism and
discrimination and its manifestation, including antisemitism, contempt for
Muslims, hate of Roma, homophobia, and other prejudice and intolerance
generated by extremist politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="signatories"></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Founding Signatories, being members of the European
Parliament or national parliaments within the European Union:</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Member of Seimas, Lithuania</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Volker Beck, Member of Bundestag, Germany</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Luciana Berger, MP, United Kingdom</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, MEP, Lithuania</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Martin Callanan, MEP, United Kingdom</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Boriss Cilevičs, Member of Saeima, Latvia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Paolo De Castro, MEP, Italy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Baroness Deech D.B.E, House of Lords, United Kingdom</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Proinsias De Rossa, MEP, Ireland</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sergejs Dolgopolovs, member of Saeima, Latvia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Why the Prague Declaration and attempts to make crimes of Stalin equivalent to crimes of Nazism is simply wrong </h3>
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Roland Binet</h3>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The European Union has as one of its main tasks to promote the cordial
understanding between the peoples of Europe and, consequently, must be careful
about the history of the continent as it is being taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the reasons of the foundation of the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> was to erase the memory of the horrors committed
during two world wars and to bring together peoples that were previously
enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A recent initiative regarding the European history dates back to
September 23, 2008 when more than 400 MEPs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>signed a common declaration supporting the proposal of the date of 23<sup>rd</sup>
August as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"<i>European Day of
Remembrance for the Victims of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stalinism
and Nazism"</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That declaration
is founded on the "<i><u>Prague Declaration</u> "</i> of June 3,
2008, with the following main objectives (1) <i>recognize Communism and Nazism
as a common legacy</i>, (2) <i>recognition that many crimes committed in the
name of Communism should be assessed as crimes against humanity serving as a
warning for future generations, in the same way Nazi crimes were assessed by the
Nuremberg Tribunal</i>, (3) <i>ensuring the principle of equal treatment and
non-discrimination of victims of all totalitarian regimes</i>, (4) <i>celebrating
a day of remembrance of the victims of both<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This date of 23<sup>rd</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>August is not anodyne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that day, in 1939, the German-Soviet Pact
was signed, a part of the secret clauses of that infamous pact foreseeing a
territorial repartition between Nazi Germany and the USSR, and, in pursuance of
these secret clauses, the USSR invaded part of Poland as soon as September 17, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1939, then, later the Baltic Republics in
1940.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the
initial Declaration, the European Parliament will hold a day of debates on the
matter of ensuring the principle of equal treatment of the victims of Communism
and Nazism, on October 19, 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In its
initial report, the European Commission wrote in its preamble: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">« </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;">The memory of Europe's history is the common heritage of all Europeans,
today and of future generations. Reconciliation with the legacy of the crimes
committed by totalitarian regimes requires sharing and promoting this
memory. »</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When one reads all the preparatory texts (report from the Commission, conclusions
from the same Commission, the Prague Declaration, etc.), one cannot shake off the
global impression – even if the objective of the “Prague Process » is to
be commended as it is the wish of the European Parliament and the Commission to
educate the actual and future generations about what really happened in Europe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–, that a number of representatives from
countries of the EU seem to be jealous of the continuous flow of information
that the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holocaust generates, to the
detriment of the sufferings they had to endure under<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Communist yoke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Has that date of 23rd August a signification whatever for the Jews who
had to bear the greater number of dead under Nazism?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has the advice of the organs representative
of the Jewish victims of Nazism been asked?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, why limit itself solely to Communism and Nazism as far as the
history of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> is concerned?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greece, Spain, and Portugal have dealt with
fascist regimes with, sometimes, bloody repressions and during entire decades
for two of these countries (half a century for Portugal).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Should one wish to «<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">share and
promote the legacy of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes</i> »
as well as talk about “<i>equal treatment</i>”, one should first and foremost
be precise, it seems to me, and put the onus on the essential ideological
differences between Nazi and Communist crimes and, therefore, may one envisage
the idea to have a common day of remembrance in honour of the victims of two
scourges that everything divided, from the origins to the consequences?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stalin</span></b><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> was in truth a
paranoiac personality, imbued with power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is now an abundant documentation that analysed the mind of that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">serial killer</i> on a European scale and
the methods he used (biographies of Simon Sebag Montefiore; biography of Zhores
and Roy Medvedev published in Russian –« the Unknown Stalin »; « The
Great Terror » by Robert Conquest, etc.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One knows that his crimes originated in his misled mind, even if these
crimes sometimes had the effect of eradicating entire strata from society
qualified as « enemies » (the kulaks, the Ukrainians at the time of
the Great Famine, the Tatars, the Jewish doctors’ plot, Kirov’s murderers, the
Red Army’s leaders, etc.). That bloody tyrant had no popular support, no power
attributed to him according to free elections. There was only the secret police
to carry out his Machiavellian schemes, with the passive assent from a
continuously terrorised population. When the poet Yossip Mandelstam was
arrested, deported and, subsequently, died in the Gulag, it was because he had
displeased Stalin in writing and declaiming in public his « Ode to
Stalin », one of the most acerb critics of the regime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was denounced not because the Soviet
people had faith in Stalin, no, only because under that terror regime the one
who did not denounce the other ran the risk of being denounced in his turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hitler</span></b><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, also a paranoiac personality,
had ample popular support because he was elected during free elections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As soon as 1935, infamous laws put the Jews
beyond the pale, and, subsequently within the occupied territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The « Commissars’ Order » (execution of
the “Commissars”, the Communists and the Jews, in the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>USSR), the green light given to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Einsatzgruppen</i> and the Wannsee Conference
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>January 20, 1942, gave, if not a
strictly legal frame, at the least an order emanating from the Chief of the
German armies – Hitler – so that the Jews, the Reds and all these persons
deemed noxious to the survival of the Aryan race might be “eradicated”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(the Germans used the German word « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ausrotten</i> » that one would use for
noxious animals).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, and this was
totally different from what happened in the Soviet prisons and the Gulag, the
Nazis sought the most expeditious methods, the less stressful for the
executioners, annihilation methods of human beings deemed « <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Untermenschen</i> » that were truly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">industrial</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And during the time of the Hitler regime, no
German opposition movement </span><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">was ever inspired by the dismay caused by the Shoah by bullets or by the
automated industrialisation process of putting people to death, whose symbol
became Auschwitz-Birkenau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worse, Guido
Knopp (in "<i>Die SS"</i>) gives this astounding figure: 85 % of all
affairs the <i>Gestapo </i>worked on were on the basis of denunciations from
German citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Anne Frank was
captured in Holland and died in Bergen-Belsen, it was not only because of
Hitler’s madness but because a whole German population supported him in this
inane enterprise of killing the Jews but also collaborated in this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nevertheless, this perverse Nazi ideology dividing masters from slaves
only worth being killed found followers in some occupied countries (too, in the
case of Anne Frank).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One has only to
look at the numbers of pogroms organised by civilian anti-Semites in occupied
countries : Lv</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">o</span><span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">v in Poland </span><br />
<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(4 000
Jews killed at the end of June 1941, by civilians, mostly Ukrainians ;
source : "<i>Die SS"</i> by Guido Knopp) ; Kaunas in
Lithuania (nearly 7 000 Jews killed during a mere two days according to <i>Stahlecker,
</i>commanding officer of the <i>Einsatzgruppe A, </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">source<i>: "The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania" </i></span>by
Karen Sutton) ; in Latvia (nearly 35 000 Jews killed during the first100
days of occupation, of which 30 000 on the account of Latvian murderers,
source: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Margers Vestermanis’s interview
in <i>Der Spiegel</i> of 25/04/2005).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Belgium and in Holland, fascist collaborators took part in the hunt for Jews,
as well as the French police and the Vichy Government in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not forgetting the atrocities committed by
fascist movements in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Hungary</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Slovakia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region> (as well as in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Croatia</st1:country-region>, perhaps a future member-state of the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place>)…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is this particular aspect of the industrialisation on a huge scale of
the process of killing with the active and voluntary participation of
collaborators in some of the occupied countries – people motivated, most often,
by a rabid anti-Semitism with firmly anchored roots -, that makes the Shoah unique
and that renders it difficult – historically speaking – to put the victims of
Nazism and Communism on an equal footing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the more if in order to reach this goal one puts the onus on the
victims and not on the underlying ideologies at the basis of these crimes. From
Hitler’s side, an ideology of a race supremacy of masters and the systematic
destruction of those deemed of an inferior creed ; from Stalin’s side, the
haughty madness of a man imbued with power without any ideological support
whatsoever with the exception of his ravings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The victims of Communism have the right to the historical recognition of
their suffering, and I would be the first to admit it, as this is a matter I am
cognizant with since the beginning of the ‘70s (having also known personally
victims of Communism).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, for these
MEPs to try to have Communism recognised as “crime against humanity”, this is a
lost cause, as the crimes committed under Stalin and his followers do not in no
way correspond to the definition of that type of crimes given by </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;">article 7
of the Statute of Rome for the International Penal Court of Justice, in 1998.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: FR-BE;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nevertheless, when it comes to the matter of putting these specific
sufferings on a par with those the victims of the Shoah had to suffer, I think that
it is not up to the MEPs to decide in this matter; the choice belongs only to
the organs representative of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, as well as
the choice of a remembrance day in honour of all the victims of totalitarian
regimes (including the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek forms of fascism).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AlexanderBecker; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And frankly, it is now time to take</span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> a firm stand against such interference from the EU
and the MEPs, from far-fetched ideas that have sprung from the minds of people
who are simply jealous of the continuous publicity the Shoah receives and who
try with whatever weapons at their disposal to displace the Jews from the
rightful place in our collective memory where, alas, a bloody historical
aberration has put them in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is time
to react, time to stand up against all these rightist and extreme-right
movements in Europe and the European lackeys within the EU kowtowing to these
fools of modern history.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Efraim Zuroff: “Don’t rehabilitate the guilty”</h1>
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Recent events in four different Eastern European countries have once again highlighted the ongoing assault on the accepted Holocaust narrative in the post-communist world.<span id="more-106"></span> Three attracted considerable attention, while the fourth, which perhaps affords us the best insight into the phenomenon of Eastern European attempts to rewrite World War II history, was virtually ignored, until it aroused a solitary Jewish protest.<br />
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In Kiev, Odessa and Lviv, on January 1, hundreds marched to mark the birthday of Ukrainian nationalist hero Stepan Bandera, who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN ), which collaborated with the Nazis and actively participated in the mass murder of Jews following the German occupation of Ukraine in 1941. A few days later, the regional council of the Ukrainian oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk declared 2012 the year of the UPA, the military wing of the OUN.<br />
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From Estonia, on December 27, it was reported that the country’s defense ministry planned to submit a bill to parliament that would recognize Estonians who served in the 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, which fought alongside German troops as “freedom fighters” for the country’s independence – despite the fact that Nazi Germany had no intention of granting Estonia freedom. While the Waffen-SS division did not participate in Holocaust crimes (by the time it was established the Jews of Estonia had already been murdered ), its members included men who had previously been involved in killing Jews and Gypsies.<br />
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In Zagreb and Split, Croatia, memorial masses were conducted on December 28 to honor Ante Pavelic, its World War II head of state, who bears responsibility for the mass murder of hundreds-of-thousands of Serbs, 30,000 Jews and several thousand Roma. Pavelic, who was installed by the Germans, created one of the most lethal and brutal regimes in Axis-dominated Europe.<br />
The fourth event involved former Lithuanian foreign minister Vygaudas Usackas, currently the EU Special Representative to Afghanistan, who wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he characterized the Nazi occupation of his homeland during the years 1941-1945 as “a few years’ respite from the communists.”<br />
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In view of the fact that 96.4 percent of the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews who lived there under the German occupation were murdered (along with thousands more Jews deported there from Western and Central Europe ), many by local Nazi collaborators, Usackas’ description was grossly insensitive, if not outright outrageous. Yet in response to my criticism, Usackas issued a public statement in which he justified his original text by pointing to the unbalanced treatment in Western public opinion of “the crimes of Stalin’s regime … and the tragedy of its victims,” which had only recently received due legal recognition, “in contrast to Nazi crimes which have been universally condemned by all civilized humanity.” And while he did reiterate an earlier condemnation of Holocaust crimes in general, his comments did not mention a word about the tragic plight of Lithuanian Jewry or the horrific crimes committed by Lithuanians during the “respite” from Soviet occupation.<br />
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Such callous indifference to the fate of over 200,000 Lithuanian citizens, murdered in many cases by their own countrymen, may seem shocking coming from an official representative of the European Union, but recent events in Lithuania clearly indicate the government’s determination to rewrite the history books to cover up the crimes of local Nazi collaborators. In this regard, one example stands out: a conference held in the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament ) last June to mark the 70th anniversary of the German invasion. The conference’s main purpose was to glorify the Lithuanian Activist Front, a political group that collaborated with the Nazis in the hope of reestablishing Lithuanian independence, and that openly called for violence against the Jews. This incitement was a factor in the widespread attacks on Jews in 46 Lithuanian communities even before the arrival of Nazi troops – a well-documented phenomenon whose existence was denied at the conference.<br />
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All of the above cases can best be described as “Holocaust distortion” (as opposed to denial ), which seeks to promote the canard of historical equivalency between Nazi and communist crimes, thereby denying the Holocaust its rightful place as a unique case of genocide. Such distortion also minimizes the highly significant role of Hitler’s Eastern European collaborators in Holocaust crimes and paves the way for the rehabilitation of those who fought against the Soviets, regardless of any crimes they may have committed against Jews. It is this ideological foundation that spawned all four events described above.<br />
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This approach was originally formulated in the Prague Declaration of June 3, 2008, which can properly be categorized as the official “manifesto of Holocaust distortion.” The declaration’s original signatories – 27 leading Eastern European political leaders and intellectuals – openly warn that Europe will never be united until it “recognize[s] communism and Nazism as a common legacy,” and makes practical demands that if accepted would lead to a revolutionary reevaluation of World War II history, and turn the Holocaust into just another of many similar tragedies. Unfortunately, resolutions supporting these principles have already passed by a wide margin in the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<br />
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It is time for the Israeli government and Jewish defense organizations to begin actively combating these dangerous phenomena, lest the successes achieved during recent decades in Holocaust commemoration and education worldwide be erased by those trying to conceal the crimes of their countrymen.</div>
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Dr. Efraim Zuroff is the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Director of its Israel Office. His recent book, “Operation Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to Bring Nazi War Criminals to Justice,” deals extensively with the role of Eastern European Nazi collaborators in Holocaust crimes and the reluctance of post-Communist countries to bring these murderers to justice.<br />
His website is <a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/">http://www.operationlastchance.org/</a>.<br />
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See also <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/why-joachim-gauck-is-wrong-for-germany/">http://www.timesofisrael.com:80/why-joachim-gauck-is-wrong-for-germany/</a> by Efraim Zuroff<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/14/conservatives-poland-right-wing</a> Eastern Europes long buried truths By Efraim Zuroff<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/08/holocaust-baltic-lithuania-latvia</a> Halting Holocaust Obfuscation by Dovid Katz<br />
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<a href="http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-04-06-davoliute-en.html">http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-04-06-davoliute-en.html</a> by<br />
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<a href="http://www.eurozine.com/authors/davoliute.html">Violeta Davoliute</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> History and politics between Left and Right, East and West</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1313498706352487687.post-46637235573849744322012-03-19T09:46:00.000-07:002012-12-28T16:59:25.022-08:00<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Media Coverage to date of the </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Petition 'Stop the 16 March marches in Latvia and Latvians revising history'. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">And the march that took place 16.03.2012, Riga , Latvia.</span></strong><br />
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A wreath to the victims of Nazism was placed on the steps of the Monument of Freedom in central Riga, it was removed and desecrated.<br />
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<strong>Comment by Monica Lowenberg</strong><br />
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The flower fight on the you tube clips, (pasted below), reveal in very symbolic terms the real fight that is taking place today. Glorification of Nazism is shrouded in pretty flowers and explained away in flowery terms (see the ambassadors letter to Monica Lowenberg March 2012 blog below). If Europeans continue to buy into this sick piece of theatre then troubling times are ahead. Latvian politicians attend the march, young and old proudly sing together songs of mythical days of glory and a Latvian Lutheran vicar officiates the proceedings next to the Latvian SS shield coated in blood red tulips on the Monument of Freedom with the desecrated wreath to the victims of Nazism kicked behind. A paradox if ever there was one. If such an event is not state and church condoned glorification of Nazism then what is? <br />
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And a question to the Latvian apologists, if as they maintain the Latvian SS were victims of not only Communism but also Nazism and only swore an oath by God and Hitler when they joined the Latvian SS, (as they saw Nazism as the lesser of two evils), then surely a wreath placed directly under the Monument for Freedom in central Riga for the victims of Nazism is also for them? Why feel the need to remove it unless of course victims and Nazi collaborators, in this case victims of Nazism and the Latvian SS legionnaires who prior to joining the legion had in 1941 and 1942 brutally help murder 95.6% of Latvia's pre-war Jewish population, are not the same and never will be.<br />
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It is a sad and important fact to remember that a third of the Latvian legionnaires had, prior to joining the Latvian SS legion, been members of the worst Jew killing machine the world has ever known. To honour such men is a travesty of justice. The legionnaires who were mobilised into the Latvian Legion, against their free will, are in some respects victims but as the video clips reveal their descendants do not perceive them as such as they desecrate the wreath to the victims of Nazism and hiss anti-Semitic statements. <br />
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Aside from any EU regulations that strictly forbid days that commemorate and glorify Nazism, for let us not forget Latvia is since 2004 a member of the EU, NATO and OSCE , apologists and supporters of the march would be wise to concede, after having viewed the You Tube clips below, that days that commemorate Nazism and any associations with Nazism will simultaneously generate anti-Semitic, homophobic and xenophic sentiments. All the flowers in the world will not dismiss this and the above mentioned tragic facts. <br />
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Is this the way Europeans, the descendants of millions of people who suffered terribly under Nazism want to go? Far right becomes a legitimised centre right and the leaders of the free world say nothing! Churchill is spinning in his grave. Have we become so blinded by Holocaust obfuscation that we are no longer able to tell the difference between right and wrong? <strong> It is time to wake up!</strong><br />
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(Archbishop Jānis Vanags held the church service which was attended by the following members of parliament: Raivis Dzintars (VL-TB/LNNK), Jānis Dombrava (VL-TB/LNNK), Inara Mūrniece(VL-TB/LNNK), , Kārlis Kresliņš(VL-TB/LNNK), Dzintars Rasnačs(VL-TB/LNNK) , Inese Laizāne(VL-TB/LNNK) , Vineta Poriņa (VL-TB/LNNK), Dzintars Kudums (VL-TB/LNNK) and Ilmārs Latkovskis(VL-TB/LNNK) . From Riga city council Jānis Atis Krūmiņš was present at the service.)<br />
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For details re above mentioned members of parliament see Republic of Latvia, Members of the 11th Saeima <a href="http://titania.saeima.lv/personal/deputati/saeima11_depweb_public.nsf/deputies?openview&lang=EN&count=1000">http://titania.saeima.lv/personal/deputati/saeima11_depweb_public.nsf/deputies?openview&lang=EN&count=1000</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Add your voice to the petition 'Stop the 16th March marches in Latvia and Latvians revising history' by accessing the links directly below:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">1.If you are a British citizen or normally live in the UK go to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /> </span><a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27795" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>epetitions.direct.gov.uk/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>petitions/27795</span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">2. If you are not a British citizen and live outside the UK go to</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history</span></span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">If not victims who were the Latvian SS legionnaires? What did they do?</span></strong><br />
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try to restore the wreath to the victims of Nazism and remove the Latvian SS
plaque that was placed in front.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Joseph Koren,
president of the association "Latvia without Nazism" (Latvia) Dr </strong></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Tatjana Ždanoka (Tatyana Zhdanok), EP deputy (Latvia) are prevented by the
Latvian </strong><strong>police from removing the Latvian SS plaque that was placed over the wreath for
the </strong><strong>victims of Nazism.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ49htk6jdk"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ49htk6jdk</span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333;">One of the powerful
voices in the small counter-demonstration at last Friday's </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333;">Waffen SS
celebration in central Riga was Joel Rubinfeld, co-president of the </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333;">European Jewish
Parliament (Brussels). 'You are here to enforce the law!' Joel </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333;">Rubinfeld tells a
Latvian policeman.</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><strong>A reporter asks Joel Rubinfeld: "What's wrong?"</strong></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">7.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnO9yQPorCs"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnO9yQPorCs</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong>25 minutes of coverage of the march which includes scenes showing
the desecration of the wreath to the victims of Nazism; interviews with brave
protesters including Janis Kuzins, (Latvia, Chairman of the Board for Associated
Diversified Trade Unions); interviews with protester Kazimier Andrushkevich (Lithuania), Helmut
Scholz, (Germany, MEP), Leonid Bard, (USA, America without Nazism); international round
table discussion attended by the above demonstrators and including: Thilo Janssen, ( Germany, Assistant for Gabriele Zimmer MEP), Dr Valery Engel, (Latvia, Vice Chairman for World Without Nazism ,International Human Rights Movement), Artur Nevicky, ( Latvia, Chairman of Societies of National Minorities of Latvia), Algirdas Paleckis (Lithuania, Lithuania without Nazism), Masha Girshin (USA, Blue Card) and service given by Lutheran priest to SS veterans next to SS
plaque and desecrated wreath to the victims of Nazism on the steps of the Monument
of Freedom, central Riga, Latvia.</strong></span></span><br />
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8<strong>.</strong> <a class="playable" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v98kzwJX830" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=v98kzwJX830</a> A British journalist gives in English a short summary of what March 16 is in Riga for Russian Today<br />
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9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQqv1LiBro">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXQqv1LiBro</a> 'Have you read David Irving by the way?' asks a young Latvian man, (who claimed to be a lawyer), Monica Lowenberg and<strong> </strong>Algirdas Paleckis.<br />
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10. <a href="http://www.rubinfeld.be/newsletters/20120326.html">http://www.rubinfeld.be/newsletters/20120326.html</a> A number of selected video clips from the day </div>
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<li class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/europe/waffen-ss-commemoration-riga-latvia"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/europe/waffen-ss-commemoration-riga-latvia</span></a>
Global Post by Michael Goldfarb<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/the-nazi-resurgence-in-europe_b_1331666.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-brodsky/the-nazi-resurgence-in-europe_b_1331666.html</span></a>
Huffington Post by Richard Brodsky<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57398741/latvians-pay-annual-tribute-to-waffen-ss-fighters/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57398741/latvians-pay-annual-tribute-to-waffen-ss-fighters/</span></a>
CBS News by Gary Peach<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 5pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Latvian+veterans+march+sparks+anger/6317342/story.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Latvian+veterans+march+sparks+anger/6317342/story.html</span></a>
Montreal Gazette by Patrick Lannin and Aleks Tapinsh, Reuters<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153838#.T2UTnREgeSp"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153838#.T2UTnREgeSp</span></a>
Israel National News by Rachel Hirshfeld<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_35-131.htm"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_35-131.htm</span></a>by
Frank Brendle first published in Die Tageszeitung Junge Welt 29.02.2012<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.baltische-rundschau.eu/2012/03/16/veteranenmarsch-ohne-zwischenfalle-beendet/"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.baltische-rundschau.eu/2012/03/16/veteranenmarsch-ohne-zwischenfalle-beendet/</span></a>
Baltische Rundschau<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Sueddeutsche Politik<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Der Standard<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european</span></a>
The New Statesman by Dr Denis MacShane MP and open letter to Dr Denis MacShane by Monica Lowenberg</span></li>
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The Jewish Chronicle by Emma Stock<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Harrow Times by Anna Slater and Emma Stock<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: auto auto 12pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108789/Youre-trying-justify-crimes-Nazis-Russias-fury-neighbour-Latvia-plans-hold-rally-commemorate-SS.html</span></a>
Mail on Line by Will Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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The Jewish Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Is Local London<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Anglo Baltic News<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Defending History.com<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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published by Latvia without Nazism by Monica Lowenberg and Joe Koren<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Hope Not Hate<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Hope Not Hate<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Cronica Romana.com<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Roma Solidarity News<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Human Rights.org<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Icare<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Delfi<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-in-riga-missbrauchte-lebenslaeufe-11682993.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;"><strong>http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-in-riga-missbrauchte-lebenslaeufe-11682993.html</strong></span></a> Frankfurter Allgemeine Politik</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-821816,00.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-821816,00.html</strong></span></u></a><strong> </strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spiegel</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lettland138.html"><strong><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/lettland138.html</span></u></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tagesschau<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Der Standard </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://kloty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-als.html">http://kloty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/veteranen-der-waffen-ss-als.html</a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/series/echoes-hitler"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.globalpost.com/series/echoes-hitler</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
Global Post Eastern Europe's Hitler Nostalgia by Michael Goldfarb</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://rubinfeld.be/publications/etudes/272-la-marche-des-waffen-ss-lettons">http://rubinfeld.be/publications/etudes/272-la-marche-des-waffen-ss-lettons</a> <span style="color: #333333;">Joel Rubinfeld, president of the European Jewish Parliament (Belgium</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://eastjournal.net/2012/03/21/lettonia-le-waffen-ss-manifestano-a-riga">http://eastjournal.net/2012/03/21/lettonia-le-waffen-ss-manifestano-a-riga</a> by Giovanni Bensi</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.marx21.it/internazionale/europa/1371-lettonia-riabilitate-e-commemorate-le-ss-e-discriminata-la-minoranza-russa.html">http://www.marx21.it/internazionale/europa/1371-lettonia-riabilitate-e-commemorate-le-ss-e-discriminata-la-minoranza-russa.html</a> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article2217992/Aufmarsch-der-Veteranen.html">http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article2217992/Aufmarsch-der-Veteranen.html</a> Hamburger Abendblatt by Gerhard Gnauck </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch">http://www.antisemitism.org.uk/press/press-releases/year-2012/latviamarch</a> PCAA Foundation (All Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism, UK, March 2012 'Calls to ban Baltic neo-Nazi marches' </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy?template=het_blog">http://www.het.org.uk/index.php/blog/entry/latviau2019s-difficult-legacy?template=het_blog</a> 'Latvia's difficult legacy' by Monica Lowenberg April 2012 published by The Holocaust Educational Trust, UK </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"> <a href="http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf">http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/2012_April.pdf</a> AJR Journal (Association of Jewish Refugees, UK) , Volume 12, April 2012 page 4 'Latvia: A Personal March Through History' by Monica Lowenberg </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/11731494/__Omstreden_mars_Letse_SS_ers__.html">http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/11731494/__Omstreden_mars_Letse_SS_ers__.html</a> De Telegraaf, Netherlands </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"> <a href="http://stopnazism.net/?p=368">http://stopnazism.net/?p=368</a> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://1click.indiatimes.com/article/0ewt4ea8319uD">http://1click.indiatimes.com/article/0ewt4ea8319uD</a> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.denismacshane.com/?tag=denis-macshane&paged=2">http://www.denismacshane.com/?tag=denis-macshane&paged=2</a> Dr Denis MacShane MP</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258331/Nazi-SS-veterans-march-Riga-event-organised-right-wing-party-linked-Tories.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258331/Nazi-SS-veterans-march-Riga-event-organised-right-wing-party-linked-Tories.html</a> Daily Mail by Allan Hall </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10147739">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10147739</a> The Guardian by Gary Peach</span></span></span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Petition advertised in the Latvian paper Telegraf and then written
about in the main Latvian paper Delfi, <o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Front cover news 24 and 25 February 2012</span></strong><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><a href="http://www.telegraf.lv/news/internet-protiv-legionerov"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://www.telegraf.lv/news/internet-protiv-legionerov</span></a></div>
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</span></span><a href="http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/v-internete-sobirayut-podpisi-protiv-shestvij-16-marta.d?id=42160454"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://rus.delfi.lv/news/daily/latvia/v-internete-sobirayut-podpisi-protiv-shestvij-16-marta.d?id=42160454</span></a></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dialogue between Latvian Ambassador in London, UK and Monica Lowenberg</span></strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-<wbr></wbr>with-latvias-ambassador-to-<wbr></wbr>the-uk/32025</a> by Monica Lowenberg For full correspondence see March blog 1 on this blogspot</li>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Early Day Motions made by Dr Barry Gardiner (Labour MP) and Bob Blackman (Conservative MP) UK:</span></strong><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866">http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2866</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2750">http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2750</a></li>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Reports:</span></strong><br />
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<strong>1. Feb 2012 by World Without Nazism-International Human Rights Movement</strong><br />
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<strong>Monitoring the social foundations of the revival of Nazi Sentiment, Xenophobia and Extremisim</strong><br />
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<a href="http://stopnazism.net/?page_id=231">http://stopnazism.net/?page_id=231</a><br />
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<strong>2. Report on Latvia by the ECRI</strong><br />
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In the framework of its statutory activities, ECRI conducts country-by-country monitoring work, which analyses the situation in each of the member States regarding racism and intolerance and draws up suggestions and proposals for dealing with the problems identified.<br />
In the <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Latvia/LVA-CbC-IV-2012-003-ENG.pdf" target="_blank">Report on Latvia</a> published on February 21, 2012 ECRI expresses concern as regards the authorisation of certain public events to commemorate two incidents and the authorities’ reaction in this connection. As concerns the first incident, every year, on 16 March, a gathering commemorating soldiers who fought in a Latvian unit of the Waffen SS is held in the centre of Riga. In this connection, ECRI regrets that, in spring 2010, an administrative district court overruled a decision of the Riga City Council 27 prohibiting this march.<br />
Moreover, ECRI is concerned that the speaker of the Latvian Parliament allegedly publicly expressed regret for the formal prohibition of this event and that certain MPs have voted for the restoration of March 16 as day of remembrance.<br />
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By Monica Lowenberg 25.04.2012<br />
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<a href="http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/">http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Will Intellectuals in Western
Countries continue their Silence on Latvia’s Glorification of Hitler’s Waffen
SS?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">19<sup>th</sup> March, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium)</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The day is
a festive one despite the grey and low sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Young pretty girls have bunches of roses which they soon distribute to
elderly and solemn gentlemen arriving, row upon row ion an interminable
procession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous national flags are
held in a heraldic and staid way by young men forming a kind of double guard of
honor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The elderly
men – some in brown uniforms of unknown nature – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>accompanied by adults, young girls and men,
defile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are singing a haunting
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a sense of joy, of
accomplishment, of fond memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is, also, a general feeling of togetherness and purpose.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These men
know why they are here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They relish
the memory of what they did, of what they were able to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They are
old combatants united in the belief that they fought to preserve the
independence and honor of their Latvian country of birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is
March 16, 2012 in Riga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A time of
celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some of
these men fought in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
prior to the <i>official</i> formation of two SS Divisions in 1943.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five Battalions of volunteers were formed
early in 1942 and were sent to the Leningrad Front (21<sup>st</sup> Liepajas,
19<sup>th</sup> Latgales, 24<sup>th</sup> Talsu, 16<sup>th</sup> Zemgales, 26<sup>th</sup>
Tukuma Battalions).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Undoubtedly, these
were tough highly motivated troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What did
they do in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Leningrad</st1:place></st1:city>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preserving the independence and honor of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, by the way, helping to maintain the
terrible blockade of that cultural city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Leningrad</st1:city></st1:place> by the Nazis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helping the formidable Nazi death-machine to
starve to death and bomb a population that had to survive with less than 800
calories per day, a population which had had no warming systems since the
beginning of the blockade in the fall of 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These men, in a small but significant way, thus contributed in killing
one and a half million civilians during the siege of Leningrad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And, before
the “official” creation of two Waffen SS divisions in Latvia in early 1943, other
equally tough and motivated military or semi-military units (<i>Schutzmannschaften
</i>Battalions, Police Auxiliary Units – the Hiwis - ,<i> </i>the Arājs
Kommando, self-proclaimed partisans groups, etc.)<i> </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had acquired a large amount of <i>military </i>experience
in Latvia in combating unarmed civilian Jews, in helping to deport them to
killing zones, robbing them of their clothes and dignity, assembling them along
mass graves and giving a hand to shoot them (sometimes pausing in order that
someone – as for example Oberscharführer Carl Emil Strott – might take a
picture of the mass massacres in Skēde in the Liepaja region).<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And after
the formation of the famed and much decorated Latvian Legion as part of the 15<sup>th</sup>
and 19<sup>th</sup> Waffen SS Divisions, in 1943, many of these men with
previous military experience dealing with Jews and partisans, joined Hitler’s
elite troop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others, as for example the
22<sup>nd</sup> and 227<sup>th</sup> Police Battalions were otherwise busy in
the summer of 1942 rounding up Jews in <st1:city w:st="on">Warsaw</st1:city> for
deportation to Treblinka, or later in April/May <st1:metricconverter productid="1943 in" w:st="on">1943 in</st1:metricconverter> repressing the
uprising in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Warsaw</st1:place></st1:city>
ghetto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">March 16 is
the day of the Legionnaires in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, these “wonderful” fighters are well
thought of and respected throughout that nation, now a full Member State of the
European Union.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Was it not <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Latvia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
President, Mr. Andris Berzins, who, on February 28<sup>th</sup>, said on the
LNT TV channel that “<i>the nation should bow to its Waffen-SS veterans, many
of whom died for their Fatherland.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Waffen
SS soldiers had to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These men
were the ideological arm of the Nazi regime, the personal military guardians of
Hitler, the defenders and propagators of the ideas he so precisely crafted in <i>Mein
Kampf</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of which dealt with
sub-races, the Jews and the Slavs: <i>Untermenschen.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be eradicated at all costs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By his armed elite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The SS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some would
say, a bit naively, that the Latvian Legionnaires did not participate in
killing Jews, Soviet citizens and everybody smacking or suspected of Communism.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, let
me say this: first of all, the SS in its totality was declared a criminal
organization by the Nurnberg Trials of 1945/1946.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And apart from the Stalin representatives
(who might have been biased), there were judges from democratic nations such as
the United States, the United Kingdom and France, as well as observers from
other allied nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pronounced sentence
of criminal activity included the Waffen SS soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover, even
if the Latvian Waffen SS did not participate at all in the extermination of
Jews in Latvia and civilian Soviet populations – an affirmation far from proved
-, the fact that they fought so well (the highest number of decorations was
attributed to the men of the 15<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> Waffen SS divisions
among all SS volunteers of Europe), so toughly “for” their Latvian Fatherland,
even outside its frontiers, created the conditions to delay unnecessarily the
end of the war, created the ideal conditions so that Himmler’s well-oiled destruction
machine could send more Belgian, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Slovakian Jews,
among many others,. to the gas chambers in Birkenau and elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With millions of lives lost.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And, I may
be naïve but now that the European Commission has, on February 21, 2012, put
its Report on Latvia online, strongly condemning the annual march in honor of
the (SS) Legionnaires in Riga, why do the European Parliament members remain
silent about a EU country honoring soldiers who, directly or indirectly,
participated in a mechanism conducive to crimes against humanity and genocide?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And why, also,
apart from Jewish and Russian individuals, are there so few reactions from
intellectuals in Western European countries?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aren’t
there intellectuals with a modicum of courage in Western Europe anymore?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or maybe the
fact that a country member of the EU is honoring Hitler’s dear children of war
is not important or exciting enough to warrant comments? </span><br />
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The late Raoul Hilberg documented a substantial amount of information on how Latvians, well before the formation of specific Latvian SS units, murdered first the local Jewish population and then several trainloads of German Jewish people, especially in Riga, under the loose supervision of German SS. It becomes clear from historical evidence that Latvians (and other) so-called Hilfswilligen (= willing helpers) did not need much encouragement to plunder and murder Jewish communities, their own and the ones delivered by the Nazis). <br />
Relevant literature (excerpt):<br />
• The Destruction of the European Jews (Yale University Press, 2003; originally published in 1961).<br />
• The Holocaust today (Syracuse University Press, 1988).<br />
• Sources of Holocaust research: An analysis (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2001).<br />
• The politics of memory: The journey of a Holocaust historian (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1996).<br />
• Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish catastrophe, 1933-1945 (Aaron Asher Books, NY, 1992).<br />
• "The Fate of the Jews in the Cities." Reprinted in Betty Rogers Rubenstein (ed.), et al. What kind of God? : Essays in honor of Richard L. Rubenstein (University Press of America, 1995).<br />
• "The destruction of the European Jews: precedents." Printed in Bartov, Omer. Holocaust: Origins, implementation, aftermath (Routledge, London, 2000).<br />
• Hilberg, Raul (editor). Documents of destruction: Germany and Jewry, 1933-1945 (Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1971).<br />
(Bibliography excerpts from Wikipedia entry RAOUL HILBERG)<br />
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Monica Lowenberg in Dialogue with Latvia’s Ambassador to the UK</h1>
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <span class="entry-date">5 March 2012</span> </div>
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From the 2009 Waffen SS march in Riga. Photo Ilmars Znotins.</div>
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Monica Lowenberg is the creator of the<a href="http://www.petitions24.com/stop_the_16_march_marches_and_latvians_revising_history"> international petition against this year’s Waffen SS march</a> scheduled for 16 March 2012 in the heart of Riga, Latvia’s capital city. The petition has to date attracted some six thousand signatures from every part of the planet.<br />
Its author approached the Latvian ambassador to the UK for support.<br />
On the link below is his letter of 1 March. It is followed by the text of Monica Lowenberg’s 5 March reply, supplied to <em>DefendingHistory.com </em>for publication.<br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-with-latvias-ambassador-to-the-uk/32025" target="_blank">http://defendinghistory.com/<wbr></wbr>monica-lowenberg-in-dialogue-<wbr></wbr>with-latvias-ambassador-to-<wbr></wbr>the-uk/32025</a><br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Latvian-ambassadors-letter-to-Monica-Lowenberg-1-March-2012.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Latvian-ambassadors-le...nberg-1-March-2012.pdf</a> link to Latvian ambassadors response to Monica Lowenberg 1st March 2012<br />
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Monica Lowenberg's open letter to the Latvian ambassador in London 5 March 2012<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5 March 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear Ambassador Eduards Stiprais,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you for your letter of 1 March 2012 explaining why you cannot
support the petition, ‘Stop the 16<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> March marches in Latvia and
Latvians revising history’. I appreciate the time you have taken out of your
busy schedule to explain your arguments to me. In the same spirit, I feel it is
important to respectfully <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>point out that
<i>glorifying any pro-Nazi forces in today’s European Union and NATO alliances
is unacceptable, </i>whether the men now being honoured as ‘heroes’ and </span><a href="http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=147992"><span style="color: #000033;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘bowed’
down to by your prime minister</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, were murderers, criminals, or simply
just pro-Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Latvia needs to be glorifying its <i>real</i> heroes who saved Jews and
other civilian victims <i>from</i> the Nazis and their local allies, not a
group of men, who amongst them were former Arajs commandos and auxiliary police
who played an active role in the mass murders of 90% of Latvia’s pre war Jewish
population in 1941-1942, murdering close to 70,000 Jews. Among the murderers
were not a few men who later joined the 15th and 19th divisions of the Latvian
SS in 1943, the 15<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> division being the most decorated of all SS
divisions. This is frankly not one of the high points in Latvia’s long and
proud history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As mentioned in my last email to you of the 16 February 2012, it was as
a direct consequence of my first visit to Riga last October that I started the
petition ‘Stop the 16 March marches in Riga and Latvians revising history!’ as
I sincerely believe glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II
has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The petition, launched 20 January 2012, ninety years to the day from the
date of birth of my uncle Paul Theodor Loewenberg who at age 19 was sent to the
Riga Ghetto on the 4 October 1941, is as much an act of commemoration of the
victims of Nazism as it is a tribute to the European parliamentarians,
including a number from Latvia, who wisely and courageously signed on the 20
January this year 2012, the </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230"><span style="color: #000033;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Seventy Years Declaration</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, commemorating
Wannsee, a declaration </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/70-years-declaration/29230#notoglorification"><span style="color: #000033;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">which specifically rejects glorification of Latvia’s
Waffen SS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, along with Estonia’s Waffen SS and the Lithuanian
Activist Front (LAF) in Lithuania.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The petition I launched has, in little over a month, gained from around
the world over 5,800 votes and the figure is mounting by the hour, indicating
that I am not alone in believing that such glorification is terribly wrong. One
should also add that the ECRI, the European Commission against Racism and
Intolerance had already in 2008 explicitly stated, <i>‘All attempts to
commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis
should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimising in any way Nazism
should be banned’</i>. The ECRI reiterated the same </span><a href="http://defendinghistory.com/european-commission-condemns-latvias-waffen-ss-parades/31490"><span style="color: #000033;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in their most recent report about Latvia released on the
21 February 2012</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As these ‘heroes’ march on the 16 March with Latvian politicians and are
given a sermon in church and flowers, when officials and the prime minister
argue that these men are not criminals as the SS Latvian legion that these men,
killers among them, joined in 1943 (after they and/or colleagues had murdered
80,000 Jews in 1941-1942 on Latvian soil in their capacity as Arajs commandos
and auxiliary police), was acquitted of crimes against humanity in the 1950’s
by US courts, I ask them and you to consider the following:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. Many of the worst Latvian killers served in the Latvian Security
Police prior to joining the Legion. Honouring such persons is a travesty of
justice and a whitewash of their heinous crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. The Legion fought under the Nazi high command for a victory of the
Third Reich. They do not deserve to be honoured for fighting for a victory of
the most genocidal regime in human history. Ironically, such a victory would
have been a disaster for Latvia since the Nazis had no intention or plan to
grant Latvia independence. Historians know very well of the Nazis’ plans to do
away with the Latvian (among Baltic) peoples after the planned-for victory.
There would have <i>been no Latvia</i> to become independent in 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. About one-third of those who served in the Legion were volunteers,
many of them those who had served in Latvian Security Police units which had
actively participated in the mass murder of Jews in Latvia and in Belarus, such
as the infamous Arajs Commando mass murder squad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. When Latvian SS killed Soviet soldiers they in turn allowed Nazis on
the western front to kill more British and American soldiers and in turn
allowed Auschwitz and other concentration camps to continue their heinous
crimes against humanity. During the years of the Latvian Holocaust, the Soviet
Union was in alliance with Great Britain, the United States and other Western
democracies, whose ranks Latvia has now joined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5. Democratic Latvia should not glorify those willing to give up their
lives for a victory of the Third Reich. The Latvian Righteous Gentiles would
make much better role models for today’s young people in Latvia and for future
generations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6. The ultranationalists who support the march are the ones who are
seeking to rewrite the historic narrative of the Holocaust in Latvia in order
to hide or downgrade the crimes of local Nazi collaborators and promote the
canard of equivalency between Communist and Nazi crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As these men march from the main Latvian Lutheran Church towards the
symbol of Latvian independence — the Freedom Monument in Riga’s central square
on 16 March 2012 this year, will any of these men and politicians shed a
thought for their Latvian murdered compatriots who happened to be Jewish? Will
they remember how 25,000 of them were in the fall of 1941, over two weekends,
marched down Riga’s streets from the ghetto to Rumbula, shot and thrown in to
pits using the ‘sardine method’? Will they say a prayer for them as part of
these proceedings?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the ambassador for Latvia, a country that is a member of the EU and
NATO, I feel it is necessary to quote once more the conclusion of the European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance concerning the 16 March march in
Latvia:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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collaborate with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march
legitimising in any way Nazism should be banned’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #000033; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Monica Lowenberg, London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">WHAT IS MARCH 16</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">TH </span><span style="font-size: small;">IN LATVIA? </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">Each year since 1998, former Latvian SS veterans have, on the 16th March, been marching in the centre of the capital city of Riga, accompanied by supporters of all generations, to commemorate and herald their fallen colleagues as war ‘heroes’. The marches have over the years increased in alarming numbers and have frequently been, and continue to be supported by Latvian officials. <br />
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On March 16th, 2011 in the heart of NATO, in an EU country, in Riga, more than 2,500 people, (75% of them under the age of 30), gathered to pay tribute to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. Amongst them a large number of neo-Nazi activists from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Norway and Denmark and Latvian officials and MEP members. Over the years the marches have been attended by the Latvian Chief-of-Staff, Secretary of Defense, members of the Seim and current and former ministers and officials. They herald the Latvian SS veterans as war heroes and freedom fighters as they claim they fought in German ranks to hold back a greater evil, the Soviet Union. Many Latvians believe that the Latvian Waffen SS legion could not have played a role in the Holocaust as it was not officially formed until 1943 when nearly all of Latvian Jewry had already been murdered. However, a substantial amount of evidence including a series of personal accounts and confirmation received from the trial of German Nazi Adolph Eichmann, supports that unknown numbers of Latvian Waffen SS soldiers had indeed been previously involved in the murder of Jews as auxiliary police between 1941 and 1942. 90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, only one in ten survived. Approximately 67,000 Jews were living in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion in July 1941. Approximately 62,000 of them were killed during the Nazi occupation. About 30,000 Jews were killed already by mid-August 1941. The main agents of this murder were small German military units joined by the so-called Arājs Commando and assisted by Latvian auxiliary police, which consisted mainly of volunteers. In late 1941 approximately an additional 30,000 Latvian Jews were killed in a carefully organised execution also aided by Latvian police and Arājs Commando in Rumbula forest, just outside the capital city of Rīga. After this, about 25,000 European Jews were brought to the Riga Ghetto by train and at least half of them were murdered by mid-1942. <br />
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Shamefully forgotten is the fact that not one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence. Killers who prior to joining the legion in 1943 had been part of 16 auxiliary police (SD) battalions that had previously taken an active part in the liquidating of ghettos in Latvia, Belarus and Poland, as well as in the destruction of civilian villages in Belarus and Russia’s Pskov region. Killers who before joining the legion had been in the ‘Arajs Team’ led by Viktor Arajs, comprising of up to 1,500 Latvian men, known worldwide as the active performers of the Holocaust in Europe, executioners of Latvian, Vilna, Warsaw and many Byelorussian ghettos. <br />
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During World War II, the Nazis created 37 divisions of Waffen Schutzstaffel (Waffen SS) of which only 12 were comprised exclusively by Germans. Most of the members of the divisions were recruited among the so-called «Aryan» populations of the occupied or annexed countries. Although the Latvians were not all considered «Aryan», they were massively recruited. Out of 900,000 Waffen SS, almost 150,000 were Latvians thus being the largest foreign contingent while their country, Latvia, only had two million inhabitants. The Latvians were mainly placed in the 15th Infantry Division, which became the most decorated non-German Waffen SS unit. It was the 15</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">infantry division who entrenched themselves in Berlin and engaged in the last military actions of the Third Reich. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">The Latvian legion formed in the winter of 1943 was , under Hitler’s orders , formally established on March 16th 1944.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">There is consensus amongst all Latvian historians that the day marks the only time, the two Divisions of the Legion (15</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">and 19</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">) fought together against the Red Army. Therefore, by making the 16th March a day to remember war dead, Latvians, (despite Latvian official protestations to the contrary), are making the day when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">and 19</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: xx-small;">th </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">divisions of the SS an act of commemoration. As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented even if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not criminals and that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to commemorate the Legion is far from being a positive act and a far cry from a policy to GLORIFY them. Glorification of pro-Nazi armed forces during World War II has no place in a European Union / NATO / OSCE country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">Despite condemnation from the international community and reports from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance that in 2008 explicitly stated, </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">‘All attempts to commemorate persons who fought in the Waffen SS and collaborate with the Nazis should be condemned. Any gathering or march legitimising in any way Nazism should be banned’</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">, in January this year, many Latvian policymakers expressed their respect and admiration of former SS veterans. Political party "Visu Latviyyay!" announced that it is preparing a bill declaring the veterans of the SS Legion as national liberation movement fighters. Under the bill, former SS soldiers in Latvia will enjoy many benefits and advantages, in contrast to the veterans of the Allied forces who fought against Nazism. </span></span><br />
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For 2012 Report on European Commission's Condemnation of Latvian SS parades (and last year's celebration of the day of Hitler's invasion) published 21 February 2012 see<br />
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<a href="http://defendinghistory.com/european-commission-condemns-latvias-waffen-ss-parades/31490">http://defendinghistory.com/european-commission-condemns-latvias-waffen-ss-parades/31490</a> <br />
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Monica Lowenberg 23.02.2012<br />
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