The military occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany was completed on 10 July 1941, by Germany's armed forces, as a part of the German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II.
German soldiers enter Riga, July 1941
Members of the Latvian Auxiliary Police assemble a group of Jews, Liepāja, July, 1941.
German halftrack at Aiviekste railroad station.
Clean-up team in destroyed Riga, July 1941
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states were under military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. Initially, many Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians considered the G
General Commissioner of Latvia Otto-Heinrich Drechsler, Reich Commissar for the Ostland Hinrich Lohse, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories Alfred Rosenberg and SS Officer Eberhard Medem in 1942.
A Holocaust memorial near the site of the HKP slave labor camp in Subačiaus Street, Vilnius