Down1
16th March 2013, 10:52 AM
I dropped one word in the title.
Veterans of Latvia's World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters marched through the capital Riga on Saturday in a commemoration that passed off peacefully but drew criticism.
Now in their 80s and 90s, the men who joined the armed wing of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party say they were fighting for Latvian freedom at the end of the war and against the return of the Soviet Red Army. Before the war, Soviet troops occupied Latvia and thousands were executed or sent to Siberia, many dying.
http://news.yahoo.com/waffen-ss-veterans-commemorate-latvias-chequered-past-162052424.html
http://news.yahoo.com/waffen-ss-veterans-commemorate-latvias-chequered-past-162052424.html
Veterans of Latvia's World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters marched through the capital Riga on Saturday in a commemoration that passed off peacefully but drew criticism.
Now in their 80s and 90s, the men who joined the armed wing of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party say they were fighting for Latvian freedom at the end of the war and against the return of the Soviet Red Army. Before the war, Soviet troops occupied Latvia and thousands were executed or sent to Siberia, many dying.
http://news.yahoo.com/waffen-ss-veterans-commemorate-latvias-chequered-past-162052424.html
http://news.yahoo.com/waffen-ss-veterans-commemorate-latvias-chequered-past-162052424.html