tv Documentary RT March 16, 2023 9:30pm-10:01pm EDT
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ever since, and how does democratic olympia celebrate? every spring? the country has now been a member of both the european union and nato for several years. the now very few surviving legionnaires who served in latvia in buffalo, says divisions large solemnly under national flags and making their way to the country's main monument. out there, accompanied by a large crowd of loyal supporters and admirers to the strains of nazi style matches, and songs and 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 are paid to fallen and surviving volunteers for hitler's ass. yes, there was a time when this was even considered a national holiday. zenato dorothy chip that all goes out to jane,
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both full of korean, the death. but vision cook, i think by material, if you, you're going yet law. her daughter, this is your foot on the door. fontinella a full genia sill. simon. he at the genuine which has not yet. i said the subtle god for us, for a sucky, a threats i spoke with. however, officials from latvia and some other democratic european states still play an active part in these celebrations, which some claim bring shame on the country. yep. vehicle it is. we go to the show, lay still beer on which is prize. no, it's the tory blood. no, it's mrs. latisha may have done so. me with the little with you and little notebook pneumonia says what i'm nymphs into
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a word and didn't get the idea when that man yeah, man, you're getting the job. she was saying that the, yeah, she says it says, even though gabriella, go get the idea of arson or store what they say here. don't say hey, are you really? that's what you was. even in 2013 supporters who march to celebrate the latvian as, as volunteers were led by m. p. 's from the ruling nationalist fall white body poll for latvia a months out of the x rays. since our i know sin in ski and the youngest umbrella in this video, m p 's can be seen attacking an antique, fascist picket a with barely concealed hatred. they tear down posters depicting nazi victims and not go
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to the speakers playing a cautionary song entitled, welcom valves bell is tolling, and it all seems to be done with total impunity police officers attempting to maintain public order. how openly threatened his being fired from the force ma, but any colossal that he moves just not significant. double what moth gave every day to say play show, say he will place money. like though it families difficult, almost santibanez as neo nazi activists. explain to me it's no accident that much. the 16th was chosen in latvia. ah, it was on that day in 1944. when the 15th and 19th latvian volunteer as s divisions started to fight against red army units on the eastern front, a boy b roacher them with the for my mom monica story. and if you could not
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a lot of them eagerly, neo nazis never failed to mention however, that even though that fumes fought as part of the german s s, they weren't shedding blood for hitler. but for a future pre latvia, one with no jews or communist finney west guys says that the ship where you start on your bill is would show that you re but daughter never. lisa sebo easily buckle liberally for her. and a heroic latvian legion is had nothing to do with nazi germany's crimes against humanity. mia jethro, y'all, can yonah bumble thought you yet so flexible? in reality, they gave their lives, not for latvia, but to save civilized europe from the savage and bloody hordes of bolsheviks.
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of you that's contested. so where does the truth lie? as the 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. let's begin with the facts of recent to european history. the 3rd right established the ss in 1939, all divisions reported personally to s. s or x euro. i'm rec, hibler. the ss was originally formed as an armed police guard for the nazi party and it's fewer at all fiddler me. they were not part of the german armed forces. the van martin, though they were later operationally deployed to fight on various france in really only germans who had passed through racial screening and will
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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, s s divisions started to accept volunteers from arion nations and germany's allies . this o s. s division was made up of foreign volunteers who came to be known as legion is, was low. so the main task that germany delegated to vanessa volunteers was to carry out reprisals and meth, executions and territories occupied by the 3rd. right. and the model. oh, great, nice. their role was to wipe out soviet functionaries or communists saboteurs, soviet prisoners of war, progressive national intelligentsia, partisans, and anyone who assisted or even just sympathized with partisans and resistance
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fighters, jews, gypsies and homosexuals were exterminated for being racially inferior. a f f c homie paulette ticket. dodie bailey, branching e. do some a some it got dory. i need to adjust it. get it if i thought not really if bonnet ticket but study that yet if it by the air, i thought enough that afternoon if we just starting now started started. no i do feel is shaggy. yeah, i give, i swear you mom did she had i will not. yeah, i did that the to the bus, but a judge like you get all you bleeding. no. you still what get that the customer support did have a sense was put in charge of concentration, labor re education and extermination camps or the death you
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move me to gun. you will in your gun. you cause you previously last but the legal solid national is a small in tears with a backbone of the i insert group in the unit created by the germans to carry out civilian genocide. as the wall continued one unit item group, it was based in riga. it was led by as a pretty good photo motor static. you know, it's not the d 5th period. let me come on daughter. she needs the mileage room and useful life was completely wrong. you still hear me when she was in. it was 50 chalet permission in late 941. dollars reported to his command. the
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240420 jews had successfully been exterminated in the area of a song. a detailed map of the work was attached them africa. yes. but you'll be lucky as you pay to business in your busted year. last year is the same. the 5th each but will be boy. they said she'd be much kabbalah, but in serious god me. but i still see islam the should about spread. teach previously should that be in his report, donica specifically mentioned that the main task, cleansing the territory of some human elements had been performed by local nationalist volunteers. one search squad was a unit formed by victor pod is his deputies were famous latvian pilot bits. of course, left tenant congress, carlos
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a seat in some minute. come and then you did do that, the many commando meets and there's a lot of noise. but then you have to pull the stopper suddenly saelens a paid at the other to somehow unzip cock. this is sharma, come on the see ski, but then you ideal is from scratch, make a so i with is on the come monday as long as on a monday is that disney middle could, can i well let her mom, but they could torture and beat to death, any one they found who was foreign, born from an ethnic minority, including the elderly women and children, are still here with her. sure. you've got enough supposed to go with the wife is a room potentially you're
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a virgin or if you move them from a guy a locked on your daughter, margaret. what? when the deal natania. so i'm not sure she just lab issue with people from now i. it was alert institute with georgia. would you press the lily of the entire squad fruit equal to their orders? some call them animals in human form. does the mass execution of jews in forests near riga, the buyer and dog pills for the burning of pack synagogues trouble, their conscience cheerfully. a nice day
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ah, the claims of the king of the belgians leopold the 2nd to the congo were finally authorized by the leading european countries in 1885 in the very heart of the african continent. a state under the rule of the belgian monarch was declared. since the beginning, the congo free state was total may him for the local population and functioned as a universal concentration camp. the majority of the population, including women and children, were forced to work on the rubber plantations. those who failed to fulfill their quota were beaten and mutilated to keep the congolese people under control. the king set up the so called for spook leak,
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which were punitive detachments that cast terror on the captured country and its inhabitants. fearing that their subordinates would simply waste bullets hunting for wild animals, the officers demanded that the soldiers gave an answer for every bullet used. and as proof presented a chop hand of an african. it was not uncommon when trying to justify the use of the ammunition, the colonist amputated the hands of not only those who were dead, but also of those who were kept alive. the atrocious exploitation of the congo turned into a real genocide in only 20 years. the policy of the belgians led to the death of nearly 10000000 people alongside the holocaust. that genocide of the congo population is considered to be one of the grimmest pages in the history of mankind . interest. just putting it all in the snow on the shilling yet actually it, they,
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she knew movies. so i was going through here. just thought i'd be doing them knowing what you i, she did anyway. yeah. you, you can when you get to, you know, who will think, push it in your box when you list it. will you still able to move on your move by noon. so when you got in the volunteers, we're not about loosing and robbing civilians. ah, you know, you can load them on some ice, started with ethnic cleansing. he was in appointed head of the that vietnam cedar.
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we police for his commitment to his masters. he was promoted to assist and gotten sorta on the left. the in general ludo fingers was distinguished from 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 beloved bee and youth to the rough and s as ranks. ah, for his commitment, he was awarded the high rank of as group and soda and appointed general inspector of the latvian legion as, as forces bloss ethan, them all, the city distrustful, broke actual bulky, hold the waterfalls. and that each in him was little guthridge critique or when he got to go go tomorrow. i mean it's searching crash. i will get you to got
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a little sugar on israel minute chip. but i mean up until october, the 1st 1943. the volunteers working with the german masters killed mold and 88000 civilians in the nazi occupied, left him 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 here. the bio ah, the police justified that crimes with the intention to build a racially pillar that via however, no central latvia even existed. nor could it exist. again, the rail, busy him. oh, general district fell under the right commissariat forestland. the region was under
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german control, unsupervised by general commissioner auto heinrich dressler, the nazis 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 her? he informed me it was you what a luthey i had set up a see for him and i wanna talk to you with you. not so fussy is that just people on the what machine yoga, let the chunk of to with that shall i you can you are asked to, catherine state that as the newest we will all of you are as beecham. get monica ah, so well at the shiva and that's his comedy. oh, shifted the level of because everything just doesn't on below the that she can ha that i will be teaching that she beat high kids and you meet with oh, with the full. okay, so that's any thoughts or
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a li lasana plugged the fluffy chesnut sto, motta, was that i would get you to leave all of those to with their skin or to shoot on the orders of nancy superiors to likes who have been dorski and vice encouraged young latvian men to join the s s where their sworn oath of loyalty was to anything but the latvian people by the god is what a fight as as sounded like in the name of god, i solemnly swear my 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. with the germans didn't just send latvian volunteers to carry out punitive
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operations in occupied latvia, but also far beyond its borders. the annual report, i was just the william by yahoo, neutral equipment, 233, about his pay, 70 and the good for just know either statement dogrib, even the credit of sustain. oh, but there is, didn't you? but she, after sir gil munchkin gear months, come on, come on that when you get little that didn't i didn't. dodie says course i use of the review. your mcclintic, the lin grabowski course can of got several sd no credit union you are will see the reduced. yeah. east are what you me that nothing a give you the words to see me. no one of service to grab them. he's got to redo it last me, don't affordably, mutilated senior, contribute. when you show me, even though when i got the renewable, if you can, when use dominion could use, didn't you pathetic them? you got to read it when you store and explain your pretty muscle beaches to be. it's already cooking be was sick, even silly me on your progress. at the start of 1943, 7 latvian use battalions took part in the winter resolve the whole winter magic
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punitive operation in vienna. morris. they burned and plundered a $158.00 settlements, killed and burned 3 and a half 1000 civilians. 2000 bon russians were taken by the net b as for hard labor in germany. more than a 1000 children were sent to the sellers. bill's desk and in addition to mil rules, lamphier and this is police battalions carried out punitive operations in russia, ukraine, and poland. such operations can never be called a struggle for an independent lab here. much is obvious to even a casual observer why you leave, but if you consider what you're asking by you know, and come up with diabetes up. i mean, you know, not the punch, the, but i was gonna say if you will, but now, mean you got both of which and just the pages. so lots of public good. if you got
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15, which grew d by at them or as dish with those new which in the seed up in my store were put i was beat williams play 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 form the basis for the netbios s as a volunteer brigade. then was renamed the 19 for boston as, as some that the in volunteer division was east junior year new year on the iraq florida. come on the bus you're young and hot.
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in the spring of 1943 voluntary recruitment began at the same time as mobilization of the new 15th of off and as as latvian volunteered. division. an up to 50000 latvians, voluntarily served in police detachments. those that were subordinate to the ss and sd, as well as with eve, often s s primarily 1944. 0, the conscription of lengthy and youth into the roughness as became compulsory. because such are but if the boys about somebody, unless he is the prism of new yes. got him. you. if i'm the shotgun theses you might need, man, you should receive disputed by bucket you want to send to the front. the latvian buffer, ss legion's, didn't so much fight this carry out punitive operations against civilians while visiting brutal reprisals upon prisoners of war dug with miscommunication with start or you. now are you watching molly of william metal
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coca cola? usually he believe melody bearish. ne, especially if he ever off charlie plucker, you're all guy live. but douglas national property in the you. that's good. it are one bullish. no, he staley. he or some stay down. she was great of a letter stating of did for him. so chilly. ah, the nuremberg tribunal recognized all who served in the ss as war criminals. the only 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 thus his boss throw in that he still believe even through g. i'll not beastie now, says again use of your not cover. i can mirror a body channel, but almost up from diamonds with the holes dust. selenium you are so oh, with a little interpretation. thinking this date made it possible to exclude not just
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those who are forcibly called up to serve in the fall finesse as lengthy and deficient from the list of criminals. middles of those who volunteered even those guilty of ethnic cleansing for a latvia and latvia all day, just a lot of people starting to panic. got him to come right to me. features. kimberly, can you remind me possibly it's not a book, isn't him also stolen? she does all know you believe with it, thought he, roby i peaceful so ah, an opportunity presented itself to turn a murderer like that a bit sucrose 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 field of odom, our vice and ss grew up and filled out rudolph banker sky. only one problem remained now to remove the stigma of
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a criminal organization from the latvian buffalo s legion itself. laughing as ruling nationalist delete managed to solve the problem by proposing the thesis that there was no difference between the genocidal nazis and the communists. to save the world from the brown plague. ah, that idea became the foundation for official latvian ideology, both within the country and beyond. ah, with those little feet, my regular what about the keep up with you? lose them put your miss robin. your company's muslim to come use them it. but when you at that you get a little given a for she them at the place took my deal. oh gear. and his teacher was like, well no one yet for she's me. some people may say that's not bother the harmless old folk on march. the 16th to commemorate their comrades who fell in battle.
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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, but those could look a little bolder to make a socialist. she could throw chicago lose you interest around us, but i was happy to be such a store. 200 thomas lee stood up the door. we met awaiting a few minutes to rush. can they keep up with you? but if you could re belichick kissed them if you will develop it. so like boucher social so my son is a sub one. this film shows the federal torchlight procession, and this is video of the torchlight procession organized by the all for lot fear, party in 2000 and both fee to the same aesthetics and slogans. and the same conviction to build a racially peer laughing with
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