Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) By MATHILDA HELLER MAY 29, 2025 18:46 Updated: MAY 29, 2025 20:01.

The late Herberts Cukurs, a Nazi collaborator in German-occupied Latvia, had blood on his hands. As a commander of the Arajs Kommando, a Latvian police unit under the authority of the German ...

"Herberts Albert Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator. He served as the deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit that ...

Herberts Cukurs was a senior figure in Arajs Kommado, a collaborationist paramilitary that acted as wing of the SD between 1941 and 1943. The unit was led by an SS commander, Viktors Arajs, with ...

Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice.The post Latvia closes probe of Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust record appeared first on JNS.org.

Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice. By Canaan Lidor, JNS Latvian prosecutors have for a third time dropped a criminal probe of a ...

“The decision is baffling because [Herberts] Cukurs’s horrific war crimes are indisputable,” the museum wrote in a statement. Yad Vashem offered to provide the prosecutors with evidence on Cukurs and ...

When the Latvian prosecutor’s office quietly closed its case against Herberts Cukurs—the Nazi collaborator known as the “Butcher of Riga”—Dr. Efraim Zuroff was not surprised. Outraged, but not ...

Today, Latvia officially spat in the face of every Holocaust victim and survivor. In a decision as shameful as it is historically obscene, a Latvian court has exonerated Herberts Cukurs, the ...

Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965. (credit: Wikimedia Commons) “We will insist and demand that the Prosecutor’s Office resume the proceedings, because we have a lot of ...

Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance center, condemned on Tuesday the decision by the Prosecution Office of the Republic of Latvia to close its case against Herberts Cukurs, the ...