In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last ...

RIGA, Latvia – Hundreds of Latvians are commemorating World War II veterans who fought in Waffen SS divisions in an annual event that stokes ethnic animosity between Latvians and minority ...

The annual Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires brings together veterans of two divisions of the World War II-era German Waffen-SS, which was the armed wing of the Nazi Party's SS, or ...

Finnish volunteer soldiers serving in the Nazi Waffen-SS units on the eastern front in World War II took part in the massacres of Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and civilians generally during the ...

RIGA, Latvia — Over a thousand Latvians on Saturday commemorated Nazi-allied World War II soldiers while police used force to prevent violence from erupting between participants an… ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Over a thousand Latvians on Saturday commemorated Nazi-allied World War II soldiers while police used force to prevent violence from erupting between participants and ethnic ...

RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World ...

Andreas Schendel's uncle was convicted over a WW2 massacre by the SS in northern Italy. He decided to go there to meet survivors, Paul Kirby reports.

Nearly 80,000 Jews, or 90 percent of Latvia’s prewar Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, or before the formation of the Latvian Waffen SS units. This, claim many Latvians, shows the unit ...