Latvian Jews were outraged by a recent decision by the nation’s leading prosecutor not to launch a criminal investigation into the re-publication of a book that contains anti-Semitic propaganda and glorifies Nazi ideology. Originally published during World War II, “The Fearful Year” describes crimes committed against Latvians during the 1940-41 Soviet occupation of the Baltic nation.
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