#standartenfuhrer — Public Fediverse posts

"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/

"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/

"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/

"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/

"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/