In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared the Waffen-SS to be a criminal organization, making an exception of people who were forcibly conscripted. Throughout the post-war years, Allies would apply this exception to the soldiers of Latvian Legion and Estonian Legion. The US Displaced Persons Commission in September 1950 declared that:

"The Baltic Waffen SS Units (Baltic Legions) are to be considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities, and qualifications for membership from the German SS, and therefore the Commission holds them not to be a movement hostile to the Government of the United States."

Even before this decision, around 1,000 former Latvian Legion soldiers served as guards at the Nuremberg Tribunal, guarding Nazi war criminals. Afterwards, during Berlin Blockade, they took part in securing Allies facilities involved in the Berlin Airlift and later also were guarding USA Army headquarters

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• The Latvian legion was
  formed in the winter of 1943 however; March 16^th 1944 is the
  day   the Legion was founded when Hitler
  ordered it be established.   All
  Latvian writers agree that the day marks the only time, the two Divisions
  of the Legion (15^th and 19^th) were fighting together
  against the Red Army.  Therefore, by
  making the 16th March a day to remember war dead,  Latvians,  (despite Latvian official protestations
  to the contrary), are making the day 
  when Latvian volunteers fought in the 15^th and 19^th
  divisions of the SS an act of commemoration.  As Israeli/Jewish critics have commented
  even if one takes the stance that the Latvian legionnaires were not
  criminals and that they were forced to fight for the Nazis, to commemorate
  the Legion is far from being a positive act.
• It should be noted that
  nearly 130,000 other Latvians - enlisted to fight against the Axis
  (Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Japan). Most of them fought in
  the Red Army that liberated their country from Nazism. After the
  negotiations among the Allies, Latvia, like other Baltic states, was absorbed
  by the Soviet Union.  Professor
  Vaira Vike-Freiberga sixth president of Latvia from 8 July 1999 – 8 July
  2007 has described the men who joined the Red Army as traitors.

• 
  Nearly 80,000 Jews, or 90 percent of Latvia’s pre-war Jewish
  population, were killed in 1941-42, two years before the formation of the
  Latvian Waffen SS unit — which some Latvians claim shows the unit could not
  have played a role in the Holocaust.
• 
  But an
  unknown number of Latvian Waffen SS soldiers were involved in the murder of
  Jews as auxiliary police — years before they entered the front-line unit.

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Please visit the exposition in Museum of modern art exposition called stolen childhood
Here is some video please use subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rBmLEaEccsk

And will undersand everything.

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For full details concerning the history of the Latvian  SS, 16 March marches and Latvian revising of history go to  http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.com/ for a detailed account

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http://www.parks.lv/home/leonards/baigaisgads/rus/saturs.htm
https://www.google.com/search?q=gulag&tbm=isch

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This is bulls**t. Just look at the name "The Baltic Waffen SS"... "they are not Nazis, they fought against Stalin's bloody regime". How is it possible to fight for something else when you are on the NAZI side?

If those warriors wanted to fight for free Latvia, they should stay as a separate army and fight for their own country, but not against only one side.

They are liars and cowards that were affraid to protect their native Latvia, that's why they are Baltic Waffen SS. If they had a courage at least to try to defend their own country from both:Stalin bloody regime and nazi Germany they could become real heroes from legends, but they choosed to be on a nazi side.

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Come on, speak to elderly people who saw by their own eyes what was done by those SS Units! The SS Latvians were working as shooters - they were killing Jews in Salaspils, in Bikirnieku forests near Plavnieki and in many other places. Stop writing this stuff, just speak to people who still alive about those times.

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aha this is why they killed innocent people :)

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And it's called "double standards" in politics! Enemies and friends are now appointed in the United States.

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Nobody said that USA politics ideal, far from it. There plenty of examples like Osama, Sadam, Pinochet... and so many otheres its not funny. What serves the purpose for the US government at the certain point in time will later come and bite them in the rear. And sorry to say, but if there were people who stood against fashism and lost their live- children, women, jews or not... there is no excuse for a grown man to join even if forcibly in to chrimes of a sick bastard- yes batard like Hitler. NO EXCUSE TO ANY HUMAN.

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Unfrotunately, the attached citation from Wikipedia is just another example of double American standards. In 1950 American have already considered Baltic nationalists as a 5th column in USSR, moreover it was a zenith of movement of "forest brothers" in Latvias- bloody guerillas-partisans sponsored by American and British services.

The other question is: what happened to "1,000 former Latvian Legion soldiers served as guards at the Nuremberg Tribunal". Have  they returned home to Latvia? Have they settled in Germany? No!!!

Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 26:14-16).

They have to guard Nuremberg Tribunal and  to be loyal to the new American master with only one final goal - to get  an assulum in USA.

It is just an illusion that being on military service you could pursuit you own ideals, you have to obey orders of German commanders. And please read more carefully about these innoccent warriors  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel