assistant for special assignments valdis baltins, a latvian by nationality, in violation of the regulationse report written in his own hand. on duty , he often visited belarus, on whose territory units of the latvian ss volunteer legion operated. since 1942. they sat in complete silence for some time. the russian liberation army was associated with the latvian ss legion, and the representative office is located in riga. but the world still found out the contents of the report. in the military-historical journal white emigration sentinel, which surrendered in paris until 1988, an article by valdis baltins was published entitled, i dare not remain silent, in it about the terrible atrocities during the punitive operation swamp fever, about what the latvian legionnaires did from. .. tyzhsky ss battalion on belarusian soil. i don’t remember the name of the village in which my attention was attracted by a cloud of flies circling over a wooden barrel. looking into the barrel, i saw in it severed male heads. some had mustaches and beards. after talking with the surviving residents, we had no doubt