Viktors Arājs

Viktors Arājs
Born(1910-01-13)13 January 1910
Baldone, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died13 January 1988(1988-01-13) (aged 78)
Kassel, West Germany
Known forLeading the Arajs Kommando

Viktors Arājs (13 January 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Latvian/Baltic German collaborator and Nazi SS SD officer who took part in the Holocaust during the German occupation of Latvia and Belarus as the leader of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit. The Arajs Kommando murdered about half of Latvia's Jews.

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