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Latvia in World War II

Latvia in World War II

Lumans, Valdis O.

Hardcover

Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

Baltic HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 0823226271
ISBN13: 9780823226276
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2006
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.97
Height: 1.56 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War.

Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the Soviets occupied neutral Latvia, deporting or executing more than 30,000 Latvians before the Nazis invaded in 1941 and installed a puppet regime. The Red Army expelled the Germans in 1944 and reincorporated Latvia as a Soviet Republic. By the end of the war, an estimated 180,000 Latvians fled to the West. The Soviets would deport at least another 100,000.

Drawing on a wide range of sources--many brought together here for the first time--Lumans synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history. He moves carefully through traditional sources, many of them partisan, to scholarship emerging since the end of the Cold War, to confront such issues as political loyalties, military collaboration, resistance, capitulation, the Soviet occupation, anti-Semitism, and the Latvian role in the Holocaust.

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