It crash-landed in the woods, resulting in the deaths of the navigator and the rear gunner. The pilot, Lothar Mothes, survived the crash landing and managed to reach the German defense lines two weeks later. Although the Soviets recorded the crash site, they did not recover the wreckage. I...
During the first occupation in 1940, over 35,000 Latvians had been either killed or deported to Siberia. During the first months of German occupation, 30,000 Jews were killed in the Riga Ghetto. Overall, Latvia had 100,000 military deaths, 300,000 civilian deaths, and 66,000 deaths from...