Talk:Voldemārs Veiss

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hi, after translating and re-editing this article in(to) german, a brief note of concern:

to me it has the touch and feel of an hommage so a highly decorated army officer. veiss' career is one thing, his role in the holocaust another one. he wasn't involved in cruelties against jews as much as his 'comrade' Viktors Arājs, but still he was one of the main leaders of the mob against jews and "Bolsheviks" in summer 1941. from a german perspective of today, this is hardly bearable. maybe i'm over-sensitive.

best, Maximilian (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2012 (UTC)


 * What mob against Jews? As for "leadership" against "Jews and Bolsheviks," it's certainly convenient to lay Nazi and Soviet propaganda at the feet of the Latvians rather than the Germans or Russians to fess up to their leadership of the slaughter in the Baltics. I should mention there is considerable confusion over Hilfspolizei (Schutzmannschaften, German organization) versus Hilfspolizei (German noun describing local Latvian police). For example, when Veiss ordered Hāzners to Abrene, it had nothing to do with the eradication of Jews, rather, to insure the Red Army forces and sympathizers were gone; of course, this is all for another conversation. However, as an aside, since Veiss and Hāzners are often denounced in the same breath, the OSI case against Hāzners didn't fail because it was botched, it failed because, in the end, there wasn't a case. (Best was, the government's appeal after losing was on the sole basis of vociferous protestation that he had served in the Waffen SS and been decorated, both of which had been long confirmed; the government's own post-war investigator had indicated neither constituted enmity against the US and was called to testify for the defense.) VєсrumЬа ►TALK 18:45, 17 September 2012 (UTC)