The Riga Massacres
"In the first six months of their occupation of Latvia, the Germans and their local collaborators annihilated 90 percent of the country's 95,000 Jews.
Of the 40,000 Jews living in Riga when the Germans invaded in July 1941, only 4800 were still alive by year's end. During the first days of the occupation, Latvian "civilian" nationalists initiated savage attacks on Riga's Jews, arresting, beating, torturing, and raping Jews while burning synagogues with people inside.
Thousands more were driven toward beaches or nearby woods and shot to death.
The Germans then forced the remaining 32,000 into an overcrowded, dilapidated ghetto.
In November they sorted "productive" workers from the rest, setting up two separate ghettos.
Throwing all available German and Latvian manpower into the "action," the SS transported over 27,000 "unproductive" Jews in modern, blue buses to the Rumbula Forest, where they shot them.
"Having wiped out the entire population of the larger ghetto, the Germans brought in 16,000 Jews from the Reich, most of whom they also killed.
By late 1943 almost all Latvian Jews had either perished in further SS "actions," been murdered in gas vans, or been worked to death in Latvia's infamous Salaspils camp."
"A Latvian civilian is executed by a member of the notorious Einsatzgruppen.
This sort of execution--absurdly time-consuming as well as barbarous--was never abandoned by the efficiency-minded Nazis."