Latvia, a NATO and European Union member, says many of the 100,000 men who fought in the Latvian Legion were forcibly drafted and that no legion member was convicted of war crimes.

The Latvian president signed a declaration indicating that the Zemessargi, the Latvian armed Home Guard, is the heir of the SS Legion, and its commander was officially honored.

Veterans of the Latvian Legion, a force that was part of the Nazi German Waffen SS, sing on March 16, 2012, at the Monument of Freedom in Riga during their annual commemoration. Ilmars Znotins/AFP ...

RIGA, Latvia (JTA) — Police arrested a man for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews at the annual march by local veterans of two SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World ...

The Latvian Legion, or the 15th and 19th Waffen SS divisions, were established in 1943. Most legionnaires were ordinary Latvian citizens with no prior involvement in warfare.

She stood in silent witness as marchers arrived to celebrate the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS, the biggest Jew-killing machine in world history. Latvians pushed Ms Lowenberg to one side to place ...

A Massachusetts architect and volunteer ethnic leader of George Bush’s campaign was a member of the Latvian Legion, an auxiliary of the Nazi Waffen SS, during World War II. The Bush campaign … ...

In Riga there is a march in memory of legionnaires - members of the Latvian SS legion. The final point of the procession of nationalists will be the "Freedom Monument", where they intend to lay ...

Parades in honor of Waffen-SS veterans, involving veterans from the Latvian Legion and the 20th Estonian SS Division and their supporters, are held annually in the two Baltic states.

The Latvian prisoners of war were none other than the Latvian Legion, a unit in the Waffen-SS, which was the military wing of the Nazi party responsible for, among other crimes, the Holocaust.

Earlier, the Latvian court had obliged the Riga Duma to make a public apology for banning a march of the Latvian Waffen SS Legion scheduled in the center of Riga in 2011 and 2012.

The organization of the Latvian SS Legion veterans also asked the court to demand that the Riga Duma, that has been prohibiting the holding of the march over four years, should pay compensations ...