Latvian Soldiers of World War II

An estimated 200,000 Latvian soldiers—ten percent of the total prewar population of Latvia— served on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Since the Republic of Latvia had been occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, then occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, these soldiers did not serve in in the Latvian Army. Instead, they served in Soviet and German uniform, primarily in Lat...