Yu.Z. Kantor “In two months we shot over ten thousand people”. The activities of the “Arays’s team” in unknown documents of the FSB of Russia // Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 4, 2022, pp. 113–120

Abstract:
The article based on declassified documents of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, examines the activities of one of the bloodiest collaborationist paramilitary formations that were part of the SD in Latvia. The Holocaust, the destruction of residents of “propartisan” villages, the massacre of prisoners of war — a previously taboo story told by its actors themselves: members of the “Arays’s team” arrested after the war.

Keywords:
Latvia, “Arays’s team”, SD, declassified documents, collaboration, punishers, victims.

Author:
Kantor, Yulia Zorakhovna — Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute
of History, Russian Academy of Sciences.
E-mail: juliakantor@yandex.ru

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