tions, including the Socialist Bund and the Poale Zion, were dissolved and their leaders were arrested and sent to concentration camps in typical Nazi style. The property of these organizations was confiscated by the Latvian dictatorship.
The anti-Nazi boycott committee was also dissolved and all the records of the organization confiscated. Boycotting of German goods was forbidden.
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