THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA IN THE SUMMER OF 1941: CHARACTERISTICS, BACKGROUND, PLANS, PRACTICE SUMMARY
This review article analyzes the origins of the tragic fate of Latvian Jews during the Second World War, rooted in the prevalence of anti-Semitic sentiments in Latvian society, especially its bourgeois-nationalist part. The author shows how the German Nazis deployed the Holocaust in occupied Latvia in the summer of 1941, largely relying on local collaborators.