Talk:Burning of the Riga synagogues

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The burning of a synagogue in Riga was filmed and shown in the Deutsche Wochenschau (No. 567). Available online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.66.113.101 (talk) 14:43, 18 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Cukurs and sourcing

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Cukurs only arrived in Riga on July 14th and could not have been involved in the burning of the synagogues.
Max Kaufmann is not a reliable source for the organization and execution of the Holocaust in Latvia, and neither is Press. Both believed there was an independent Latvian authority operating (under Dankers) in parallel to the Nazi occupation, perpetrating the Holocaust. Dankers wasn't in Riga at the time, nor was there any independent Latvian organization or action.
Gertrude Schneider's book is largely taken verbatim from her doctoral thesis. That cites Soviet propaganda for its accusations against Latvians (with sources cited). The problematic citations disappear in her book but the content remains. For example, she states Latvians did the shooting at Rumbula, the largest single massacre of Jews in the Baltic states. No, the Germans did. In other cases, she amplified accusations to misrepresent facts.
Angrick and Klein, well, they write the eastern Europeans were savages, et al.
- Ezergailis's in-depth review of the original German edition HERE
- Ezergailis's brief review of the English translation HERE

VєсrumЬа ►TALK 01:23, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kaufmann and Latvians in charge

More a placeholder for now, but noting that Kaufmann's account of Latvians in charge, of Latvians operating independently of the Nazis, etc. is demonstrably false. As moving an account his memoir is of his own experience, it is severely flawed as an account of the Nazi operation of the Holocaust in occupied Latvia. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 14:29, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]