Nazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War Viktors Arājs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police /

• Main Author: Plavnieks, Richards (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of Modern Europe.; Political History.; Crime and Society.

This book is a study of the legal reckoning with the crimes of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and its political dimensions in the Soviet Union, West and East Germany, and the United States in the context of the Cold War. Decades of work by prosecutors have established the facts of Latvian col...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Latvian Auxiliary Security Police and Cold War Justice
• 2. Wartime Latvia: Viktors Arajs, Hell's Plowman
• 3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Justice behind Propaganda
• 4. West Germany: The Pursuit, Prosecution and Punishment of 'The Chief' Himself
• 5. East Germany: An Elaborately Squandered Opportunity
• 6. The United States: Perjury, the Public, and the Passport
• 7. Conclusion: Justice for Some, the Truth for All of Us.