US EditionLatvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
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Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
(JTA) — A probe into a Latvian officer who led mass killings of Jews during World War II has been dropped — for a third time. Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby Rumbula forest, earning him a title as “The Butcher of Riga.” But the Latvian Prosecutor General’s Office closed its case against …
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