The Latvian government called on the country’s prosecutors to determine whether a recently reprinted book contains anti-Semitic propaganda or glorifies Nazi ideology, according to Latvia’s official news agency. “The Fearful Year” describes crimes committed against Latvians during the Soviet occupation of the Baltic nation between the summer of 1940 and Nazi Germany’s invasion of the country a year later.
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