Dvinsk - Двинск - Dvinska. 1941

Many thanks to the administration of Vilna Ghetto site, who provided photos of Dvinsk and Dvinsk Ghetto in the begging of World War II.

The Holocaust in the letters of German soldiers on the Eastern front (1939-44)

The letter of an ordinary soldier, from the end of June 1943 in Dünaburg, Latvia, concedes that German soldiers were not seen as liberators by the local residents. The author assumes a clear causal link between the way the Germans treat the local population and the reputation they have. The soldier openly talks about destructions, mass executions and a regime of terror and arbitrary rule:

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