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Authors: Christopher Hale
29 An Ustasha murder squad with victims. These squads rampaged through the German puppet state of Croatia murdering Jews and Serbs. (USHMM/Memorijalni muzej Jasenovac)
30 The site of the Rumbula mass killings today. Between 30 November and 8 December 1941, SS General Friedrich Jeckeln directed the murder of 27,800 Latvian Jews, assisted by local auxiliaries. (Author’s own image)
31 SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, the ‘Butcher of Riga’ who masterminded mass slaughter in Ukraine and Latvia. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S45466)
32 Viktors Arājs, Latvian commander of SD murder squad the ‘Arājs Commando’, in British custody after the war. (UK National Archives)
33 The Legionaries begin their march to the Freedom Monument. Young Latvian nationalists head the procession. (Author’s own image)
34 Latvian nationalist guarding the Legion veterans. (Author’s own image)
35 SS chief Heinrich Himmler inspecting Norwegian SS recruits. (USHMM)
36 Bjorn Østring with a portrait of his hero, the Norwegian puppet ruler Vidkun Quisling.(Author’s own image)
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