A leading Nazi-hunting group criticized the government in Riga for not addressing Latvian complicity in World War II crimes in a recent advertisement in the Israeli press. But the Simon Wiesenthal Center applauded the mention of Jewish contributions to the Baltic nation’s history in the ad, which commemorated the sixth anniverary of Latvia’s independence.
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