You Have Paved the Way for a New Europe!
Poster from German-occupied Latvia, ruled at the time by an administrative body known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO). As with the other Baltic states, the Germans enjoyed considerable local support in Latvia, whose population viewed them as liberators from Bolshevik oppression. Similarly, loyal, gentile Latvian civilians were largely spared the harsh treatment endured by the inhabitants in the Soviet Union proper enacted by the occupying troops. In the wake of the German occupation, collaborationist entities such as the Latvian Legion and Arajs Commando were thus formed, with its volunteers likely motivated in part by the hopes of political representation in the hypothesized post-war order headed by Nazi Germany.
Main Latvian caption reads: Your work and your struggle have paved the way for your happy future in a new Europe!
Marginal text in German on bottom-right reads: P 174 / Sword / Lett. [for Lettland, meaning Latvia]
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Poster from German-occupied Latvia, ruled at the time by an administrative body known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO). As with the other Baltic states, the Germans enjoyed considerable local support in Latvia, whose population viewed them as liberators from Bolshevik oppression. Similarly, loyal, gentile Latvian civilians were largely spared the harsh treatment endured by the inhabitants in the Soviet Union proper enacted by the occupying troops. In the wake of the German occupation, collaborationist entities such as the Latvian Legion and Arajs Commando were thus formed, with its volunteers likely motivated in part by the hopes of political representation in the hypothesized post-war order headed by Nazi Germany.
Main Latvian caption reads: Your work and your struggle have paved the way for your happy future in a new Europe!
Marginal text in German on bottom-right reads: P 174 / Sword / Lett. [for Lettland, meaning Latvia]
