Denmark, Horsens
We have arrived.
We have been swept up in the chaos of the collapse of the Eastern Front.
The Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen was bombed a few days
ago by the British. It was a large
u-shaped building. The whole of
Denmark's Gestapo, along with a large number of criminal police were killed.
After the forming of the Latvian Police Battalions,
during January 1943
in Reichskommissariat Ostland, Heinrich Himmler formed Latvian legion Lettische
SS Freiwilligen Legion in February 1943.
That Legion later became a Division, receiving the numerical designation
15 before being renamed Lettische SS Freiwilligen Brigade.
The unlawful conscription of Latvian men for
military service by Germany was based on Alfred Rosenberg's compulsory labour
decree of 19 December 1941. It was carried out by the Department of Labour for
the Latvian Self Administration, and commenced early 1943. All Latvian males born between 1919 and 1924
received a compulsory recruitment notice.
The 15th Waffen SS, together with the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of
the SS (2nd Latvian) were formed into the Latvian Legion. And so here I am.
- 29 March
1945 The Americans are in Frankfurt.
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