A Jewish group is protesting the consecration of a cemetery for Latvians who collaborated with the Nazis. The Simon Wiesenthal Center said last weekend’s ceremony at the cemetery near Riga for SS- Latvian Legion veterans “reflects a grave misunderstanding of the history of World II.”
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