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Latvia in World War II / Valdis O. Lumans.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical DimensionPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) : 4 Illustrations, black and whiteContent type:
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  • 9780823226276
  • 9780823295999
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53/4796
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Prewar Latvia -- 2 Latvia's Road to war -- 3 Latvia and the Outbreak of war -- 4 The soviet Occupation and Annexation -- 5 Sovietizing Latvia: The Year of Terror -- 6 The German Invasion and occupation of Latvia -- 7 Latvia and the Ostland -- 8 Latvia and the Holocaust -- 9 The Latvian Legion -- 10 Latvians at the Front -- 11 German Retreat and soviet Return -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Prewar Latvia -- 2 Latvia's Road to war -- 3 Latvia and the Outbreak of war -- 4 The soviet Occupation and Annexation -- 5 Sovietizing Latvia: The Year of Terror -- 6 The German Invasion and occupation of Latvia -- 7 Latvia and the Ostland -- 8 Latvia and the Holocaust -- 9 The Latvian Legion -- 10 Latvians at the Front -- 11 German Retreat and soviet Return -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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