Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he ...

Heberts Cukurs was a principle figure in the mass murder of Jews in the forests of Riga. He does not deserve a hero's ...

A court in Latvia has closed its case against Herberts Cukurs, the “Butcher of Riga” believed to be personally responsible for killing at least 30,000 Latvian Jews during the Holocaust ...

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance center, condemned on Tuesday the decision by the Prosecution Office of the Republic of Latvia to close its case against Herberts Cukurs, the ...

Herberts Cukurs was a Nazi collaborator in Latvia who has been accused of participating in the mass murder of the country's Jews (Image: Wikimedia Commons) ...

Yad Vashem condemned Latvia’s Prosecution Office’s decision to close the investigation into Herberts Cukurs for his role in the Holocaust. The “Latvian war criminal and Nazi collaborator ...

In a decision as shameful as it is historically obscene, a Latvian court has exonerated Herberts Cukurs, the infamous “Butcher of Riga,” a man whose crimes against the Jewish people were not ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. The late Herberts Cukurs, a Nazi collaborator in German-occupied Latvia, had blood on his hands. As a commander of the Arajs ...

“The decision is baffling because [Herberts] Cukurs’s horrific war crimes are indisputable,” the museum wrote in a statement. Yad Vashem offered to provide the prosecutors with evidence on Cukurs and ...

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Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby ...