What made the Latvian SS Legion so successful?
>>1150181
They, along with the other Balts, faced sure annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, while the Germans and bigger eastern Euros might be cucked, but not erased off the map. That's why you still had Forest Brothers operating in those countries until the 1950s.
>>1150181
The love for their country and determination to stop communism.
>>1150387
The last unit of forest brothers in Latvia put down their arms in 1960. Individual forest brothers remained in the woods much longer, the last one came out in 1996, three years after Latvia was independant again.
>>1150387
>They, along with the other Balts, faced sure annihilation at the hands of the Soviets
They sure were annihilated after they lost
>>1150416
300k Latvians sent off to Siberia in cattle wagons doesnt sound too good, does it?
>>1150421
Were they surely annihilated?
>>1150660
What do you mean by that exactly? 15th division who surrendered to the allies were not harmed and even used as guards at the Nurnberg trials. However the parts of 19th division who were caught by the soviets were executed or excluded from society.
