[000:00:00;00] ah ah, china has performed a master stroke of diplomacy. it is brokered in agreement that we'll see a ran and saudi arabia again reestablish diplomatic relations. this could be a step not only to reorder the middle east, but also usher in an era of stability in the region. today. washington is the odd man out.

aah. riga capital city of the republic of latvia. the country gained independence on march the 16th. now, thousands of people have gathered in the city center near the free to monument ever since. and how does the democratic olympia celebrate? every spring? the country has now been a member of both the european union and nato for several years. the nell very few surviving legionnaires who served in latvian buffet s s divisions, march solemnly under national flags and making their way to the country's main

monument. there accompanied by a large crowd of loyal supporters and admirers to the strains of nazi style marches, and songs in number of officials and individuals lay memorial weeks at the base of the monument. as they joined the commemoration of remembrance day. it's a day when respect to paid to fallen and surviving volunteers for hitler's ass. there was a time when this was even considered a national holiday soon. austin was all po, dosage of thought, all god to jane, both full of korean, the death. but rich and good, then 5 to 15. you're going yet. law her daughter, this is your foot on the door. fontinella a full genia seal assignment a that the genuine which have blown it. i said the subtle, i gotta 1st was chucky

a is threats. i suppose with however, officials from latvia and some other democratic european states still play an active part in these celebrations. which some claim to bring shame on the country. yeah, politically. let me go to the chalet, stillberg from which was no, it's the daughter plasma. what smith is latisha may have done some in with the little like with you on bill. no, but nas vanya, that's what i'm most oh nym to dorian, nevada, to win that run. yeah. that money that you all, she was saying that yeah, she says, oh, it says, you know, gabriella, forget the pneumonia and the run you as an artist or what the she has done say hey, are you really? that's what you was imminent. in 2013 supporters who march to celebrate the latvian

as, as volunteers were led by m. p. 's from the ruling nationalist fall, right audi full for latvia in months out of the x ray. vist since our i notice in ski and youngest umbrella in this video, m. p 's can be seen attacking an antique fascist ticket. with barely concealed hatred. they tear down posters depicting nazi victims and no go. the speakers playing a cautionary song entitled, spoken valves. bell is tolling, it all seems to be done with total impunity. police officers attempting to maintain public order openly threatened has been fired from the force lawyer a very close and then he will will just not significant. double what it month gave

every day to sip graciously. yes. this like the i families, it's about almost as neo nazi activists explain. it's no accident that march. the 16th was chosen in latvia. ah, it was on that day. 1944. when the 15th and 19th latvian volunteer as as divisions started to fight against re tell me units on the eastern front, a b, b structure. there are some little pull my mom of like a 30 some he lives in america. dodie, lots of the meagre, neo nazis never failed to mention, however, that even though that fans fought as part of the german s s, they weren't shedding blood for hitler. but for a future pre latvia, fun with no jews or communist finney west guys says,

love the ship where you start a new build up is good. sure. no, i mean reporting. yeah, but he says, sambo easily buckled lovely book and the heroic latvian legion is, had nothing to do with nazi germany, crimes against humanity or y'all can even yet on bill. one bill for you. yes. so in reality, they gave their lives, not for latvia, but to save civilized europe from the savage and bloody hordes of bolsheviks of you that is contested. so where does the troops lie? past her 70th anniversary of those tragic events draws near? it's a good time to get to the bottom of things to take a closer, unbiased look to separate the wheat of truth from the chaff of myths and blatant falsification. ah,

let's be and with the facts of recent european history. the 3rd right has stablished the s s in 1939. all divisions reported personally to s. s or extra heinrich hibler. the ss was originally formed as an armed police god for the nazi party and it's flora adult. hitler, me, they were not part of the german armed forces developed though they were later operationally deployed to fight on various france. initially, only germans who had passed through racial screening and were wholeheartedly committed to national socialism could join the s s. they sworn oath to hitler personally. later when the german army began to suffer defeats on various france. as as divisions started to accept volunteers from area nations and chinese allies,

they thought all assess divisions made up of foreign volunteers that came to be known as legionnaires. was low, so heads up, so the main task, the germany, delegated of often his ass volunteers was to carry out reprisals and meth, executions in territories occupied by the 3rd, right. a lot of their role was to wipe out soviet functionaries or communists saboteurs. soviet prisoners of war, progressive national intelligentsia, partisans and any one who assisted or even just sympathized with parties and resistance fighters, jews, gypsies, and homosexuals were exterminated for being racially inferior. mm. i guess the ss of tommy, paulette. take that thought. bailey branching e j. some may not be cut doria,

new. she just there, there with jared vasa. not really a permanent ticket bastardi that yet if chip budget is cut, are you not that i think you but just thought a no started study. no, i do feel shy. yeah, i do have i 21 that you had our last year did that. the tibetan church study. picky . get all your bleeding? no, you still get that. there is a dss was put in charge of concentration label re education, and extermination camps or dest factories. you move or go with me to gun you will use a gun. you cause the previous any loss but did eagle solis peace national laissez swollen tears with a backbone of the i'm such group and a unit created by the germans to carry out civilian genocide as the wall continued

one unit i some group, it was based in riga oh, it was led by as, as pretty good photo motor stucco. us more are not the dd i assist you to a lot of these are common daughter shem on using my mom. i'd use a mirror on ladies with me when you start seeing it. rico. what's up? what's the chalet from the school? in late 1941. stallnicker reported to his command for 240420 jews. had successfully been exterminated in the area. he oversaw a detailed map of the work was attached to land masika with the blue. nobody feel better. what the a 0 period piece,

the senior proceeded. you lost the 3 the she video is sandy. se will be the boy get this issue in this cavellia for gabriel with serious god me. but as does his long be, should about spread th previously should that low be source in his report? stallnicker specifically mentioned that the main task cleansing the territory of sub human elements had been performed by local nationalist volunteers. one such squad was a unit formed by victor potus. his deputies were famous, let me in pilot a bit. so course. i'm left tenant congress collis washington for many come and then you did deal with the minute the amended meeting. it was a half so long, but then you had to pull the stopper suddenly stellan a paid at the other to somehow unzip cock assume a come on the billy billy cc,

but then you and i deal with is on the come monday as long as on the monday is but he's unable to middle could, can i was a mom that they could torture and beat to death. any one they found who was foreign on what from an ethnic minority, including the elderly women and children. yeah. still here with me, are supposed to go with dorothy 0 potentially. you're a genius or do i have you came with them for my guy? i spoke to him, scott, why don't you log on with your daughter in law group? i worked with you on the 20th, so i'm not sure she just loved it. so could you.

i with the entire squad proved equal to their orders. some gall animal was in human form. does the mass execution of jews in forest near riga, via and dog up bills for the burning of pack synagogues trouble, their conscience cheerfully. you have a nice day and i will have them in a, at the saw it years on. so we have the 2nd many shipple dogs

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with just to check your foot on the me now on the sitting yet. so the day she was saying, so i was going through here to choose to see him knowing what you i, she did the words. yeah. you, you, you can when you get to, you can just push it in your box when you move to will you bring you up in the store with some boots on your own. there's no, i'm sitting in there,

just brushing. the volunteers were not about loosing and robbing civilians. ah, let me hold the medicine vice started with ethnic cleansing. he was in appointed head of them that via non salary police for his commitment to his masters, he was promoted to s. s 10 dot from florida. ah, the latvian general ludo fingers was distinguished going to just amazing the depredations and atrocities committed by the auxiliary police, a traitor to his own people. ah, he personally facilitated the mess, conscription of the latvian youth to the rough and s ranks ah, his commitment he was awarded the high rank of as group and soda and appointed general inspector of the natalie and legion as as forces

bucklin would bloss eaten them all but as the city mistrustful broke actual bulky horton waterfalls and his asian, which reached him, was little guthridge. you can get away with it. you know what he wants to live by. i mean, it's searching cross. charlotte got oh, she got israel minute chimp. i mean, up until october, the 1st 1943. the volunteers working with the german masters killed mold and 88000 civilians. in the nazi occupied, lithium, soviet socialist republics about the same number of prisoners of war were killed or tortured to death in concentration camps. exactly how that happened is told by footage, recording the execution of jews in chicago, yet by ah, the police justified that crimes with the intention to build

a racially pillar latvia? however, no such latvia even existed? no, could it exist either general deserved him? oh, general district fell under the right commissariat, or slant, the region was under german control. i'm supervised by general commissioner auto heinrich dressler. the nazi's, ultimate goal, was to build the 3rd reich in which they would be masters. and all, some humans were destined to be enslaved or exterminated. oh la cisco, what's to a he informed me, it was you what a finish it said, ah, this is the sky from and i warn you off to a pursue with you. not so fussy it. that's just people on the what machine yoga or the shall cut with any of these, shall i? you can you are asked a state that as the newest we won't hold on. you are as beecham. yet monica ah, so well at the shaver,

harnesses comedy shifted. those level of weaknesses. i read j dot com below the that sheet and they changed the how will i position that she be because i knew mitchell officially from miss lug nuts dome. i wish that i would leave out the doors to your skin or to shit. on the orders of nancy superiors likes and then the sky and vice encouraged young men to join the s. s where this won't of loyalty was to anything but that the people to buy a guy is what a fighter those sounded like in the name of god. i solemnly swim, i indefinite obedience to the german armies, commander in chief adult hitler,

fighting the bolsheviks. and as a brave warrior, i'm willing to give my life to this promise. ah, the germans didn't just send latvian volunteers to carry out punitive operations and occupied latvia, but also far beyond the borders. i just really need to talk to you about that. i know you said some dogrib, even the credit of stevia, but there's really no poaching after giving months can get months can come under when you get little $930.00 says because i use of that will give you on the graph. it's cost and i've got several i sees no, can you do i see the step the start with you meet, you know which $1.00 of status, the grass and he's got to do it last middle and if with a 1000000 units, you know, when you feel you know, look at the renewable, if you can, when used to mean you can reduce the utilities to me

a little bit when your stores and excess linear muscle vicious 3 d b was sick and filling me on your property at the start of 19437 latvian use battalions took part in the winter resolve all winter magic punitive operation in ben unless they burned and plundered a 158 settlements, killed and burned 3 and a half 1000 civilians. 2000 bon russians were taken by the net pianists as for hard labor in germany. more than a 1000 children were sent to the sellers bills desk. and in addition to mil rules, lamphier says police battalions carried out punitive operations in russia, ukraine, and poland. such operations can never be called a struggle for an independent latvia. much is obvious to even

a casual observer. why you only consider what his feel. yes can, but you know, i'm a fool with jeff. i'll be he's upset. you know, not, don't leave it. i was gonna finish this if you will be nominated, you got book, which is just the pages. so lots of public good. if you got sleeps you which grew d by at the was just with those new which in the seed up in my store with a dish was beach wirelessly stupid really was of course in the autumn of 1941 germany sent a number of latvian volunteers, to fight in the 2nd s s infantry division. by may 9436 latvian volunteer battalions were all ready active in this division. later in april 1943, those battalions formed the basis for the latvian s as volunteer brigade. then was renamed the 19th boston s. s,

and that the volunteer division was the scattered me junior year on the new year on the iraq florida. come on the bus, you're young and hot. in the spring of 1943, volunteer recruitment began at the same time as mobilization of the new 15th of often as, as latvian volunteer division. an up to 50000 latvians, voluntarily served in police detachments. those that were subordinate to the ss and sd, as well as with the boffin s s. from early 1944, the conscription of latvian youths into the roughness as became compulsory. such as but if the boys about somebody, unless he is the prism of nearest god, m u m d shotgun theses, you might need manually. this disputed by bugging of one sent to the front, the latvian buffet, ss legions,

didn't so much fight has carry out punitive operations against civilians while visiting brutal reprisals upon prisoners of war. with start or you, molly? what she molly william metal ca catalogue usually he believes malady bearish. ne daniels. actually if he ever off could charlie plucker, you're all guy. but that, that is now she probably in that in that pretty down one bill. a solution of easterly here, some stay down. she was great over that i stayed in of the did with him, so chilly. ah, the nuremberg tribunal recognized all who served in the s. s as war criminals. leona exception was made for anyone who had been forcibly called up for military service by the state, therefore depriving the conscripts of the right to choose or versus boss throw in

that he still believe even through g. i'll not beastie now. she's the guy, news of your lack of writing, mirror operational, but almost up from diamonds with the holes dust selenium you are. so with a little interpretation thinking this date made it possible to exclude not just those who are forcibly called up to serve in the val finance as lengthy and deficient from the list of criminals. middles of those who volunteered even those guilty of ethnic cleansing for a latvian latvia, they just filled out a lot of people. i came to dumber ray to me features human again. you had a minute pastry. it's not a talk is an emotional and she does all. now you believe would be better with that group. i'm thinking he thought he roby i peaceful so ah, an opportunity presented itself to turn a murderer like that, but suckers into

a national hero. making it possible for the latvian republics highest leadership to worship the graves of collaborators at a national cemetery. stand up and feel to voldemort advice and s s groping for rudolf bangor, ski. only one problem remained how to remove the stigma of the criminal organization from the latvian buffalo as legion itself. laugh as ruling nationalist elite managed to solve the problem by proposing the thesis that there was no difference between the genocidal nazis and the communist. who saved the well from the brown plague? ah, that idea became the foundation for official latvian ideology, both within the country and beyond. ah, without literacy to maria, good or what? not the keep up with give, lose them, put your surviving your company's mas let to come when use them it. but when you a little give when you are for she them at the priest took my deal

o gear and his teacher was like one or one year for she's me. some people may say, let's not bother the homeless old folk on march to 16th them to commemorate their comrades who fell in battle. others say that the symbolic purpose of the ceremonies is not a commemoration, but to idolize nazi criminals. as a result, latvia has seen a rapid growth in neo nazi sentiment. you talk socially, what those could go to little boulder to make a socialist. she could rush uncle w, which is to run us. but i, it's a pity, beside the store to hunter thomas lee stood up the door. we met awaiting a sort of instruction with that convey keep up with you, but if you could 3 bullet to kill them if you will develop it. so let boucher so so so but so i'm, is assembled, this film shows the federal torchlight procession. and this is video of the torchlight procession organized by the all for lat,

fiarty in 2000 and both feature the same aesthetics and slogans. and the same conviction to build a racially peer laughing with with the suffered because we're

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