RIGA, Latvia – More than 1,000 people paid tribute Wednesday to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II. Flanked by flag-bearers ...

A handful of veterans, flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom ... people who fought under the banner of SS, Nazi Germany’s elite security force.

RIGA (Reuters) – Veterans of Latvia’s World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters ... followed by supporters carrying national flags, walked through the city to lay flowers at ...

The recent uproar in Latvia over a proposed march by veterans of the Nazi SS highlighted the ambivalent ... waving an Estonian flag. He drove from Estonia to Riga to show solidarity with his ...

Hundreds of nationalist activists march or wave Latvian flags from the sidelines under ... But he also said that the march by the SS veterans was “greatly inflated in Russian media” and ...

Holding Latvian flags and singing patriotic songs ... Latvia says the men were combat troops and had nothing to do with SS atrocities. The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg did ...

Flanked by flag-bearers, participants in the annual procession sang patriotic songs and laid flowers at the base of the Freedom Monument in downtown Riga in honor of the Latvian SS soldiers ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Veterans of Latvia's World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters ... followed by supporters carrying national flags, walked through the city to lay flowers at the ...

A handful of veterans, flanked by hundreds of supporters waving Latvian flags, gathered around Freedom ... those who fought under the banner of SS, Nazi Germany’s elite security force.