Latvian Nazi collaborating unit that perpetrated the Holocaust
Arajs Kommando
German: Sonderkommando Arajs Latvian: Arāja komanda
Active
1941—1944
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Branch
Sicherheitsdienst
Size
from >100 (July 1941) to 1200 (1943)
War crimes
The Holocaust in Latvia The Holocaust in Belarus
Commanders
Commander
Viktors Arājs
Deputy commander
Herberts Cukurs
Military unit
The ArajsKommando (also: Sonderkommando Arajs; Latvian: Arāja komanda), led by SS commander and Nazi collaborator Viktors Arājs, was a unit of Latvian Auxiliary Police (German: Lettische Hilfspolizei) subordinated to the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD). It was a notorious killing unit during the Holocaust.
The ArajsKommando (also: Sonderkommando Arajs; Latvian: Arāja komanda), led by SS commander and Nazi collaborator Viktors Arājs, was a unit of Latvian...
of Viktors Arājs included Konstantīns Kaķis, Alfrēds Dikmanis, Boris Kinsler and Herberts Cukurs. On the night of July 3, ArājsKommando started arresting...
to head the ArajsKommando, a Sonderkommando of about 300 men, mostly university students. Together, Einsatzgruppe A and the ArājsKommando murdered 2...
aviator and Nazi collaborator. He served as the deputy commander of the ArajsKommando, a collaborationist unit that carried out the largest mass murders of...
as the ArajsKommando, that the Germans had organised to carry out massacres in the smaller cities. According to one historian, Viktors Arājs was "held...
the Nazi Einsatzgruppe A with the help of local collaborators of the ArajsKommando, with support from other such Latvian auxiliaries. In charge of the...
Group North. The German Einsatzgruppen were aided by a group known as ArajsKommando in the killing of Latvian Jews as part of the Holocaust. Latvian soldiers...
members of Holocaust perpetrator ArajsKommando subsequently joined the Legion, this was late in the war as the Kommando was demobilized from anti-partisan...
initially at Jumpravuiža under atrocious conditions; many are shot by the ArājsKommando in the Biķernieki forest, others are transferred to Salaspils to continue...
office in Berlin, I met Standartenfuehrer Plobel [sic], who was leader of Kommando 1005, which was specially assigned to remove all traces of the final solution...
1960; died in prison in 1986. Viktors Arājs January 13, 1910 January 13, 1988 78 years Leader of the ArajsKommando, which murdered half of Latvia's Jewish...
headquarters in Zichenau (Ciechanów) formed a lesser known unit called Kommando SS Zichenau-Schroettersburg, which departed from the sub-station Schröttersburg...
Leopold Schlesinger, who testified in the trial in West Germany of Viktors Arajs in the late 1970s, almost 35 years later. Schlesinger in turn appears to...
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