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80 years ago, on July 29, 1944, in the newspaper Fatherland the order of Oskar Danker, Director General of Internal Affairs of the Self-Government of the Latvian General District, which is a part of the General Commissariat of Ostland created by Hitler’s National Socialists, was published on the involvement of young people born in 1927 in the auxiliary service of the Air Force. 50 years after this order, July 30, 1994 was dedicated to the fate of 15-17-year-old Latvian youth, the last ones conscripted into the warring German army. On Saturdays script In memory of the youngest participants of the Second World War.
The Germans in the Eastern Lands did not use such terms as mobilization or conscription, wrote Edgars Auniņš, himself a former adjutant of the Latvian Air Force. “It was not by chance, because in all international laws the use of minors from occupied countries in war operations is considered a war crime. However, if it is done with the help of the word “involvement”, by the order of the self-government of the occupied country, and if it is implemented by such absolutely non-authoritative organizations as Latvia’s Through the Youth Organization (LJO), it formally turns out that we were almost volunteers (if we are counted as members of the LJO in absentia). Only the warning of the Riga police prefect J. Stiglitz: “There is a threat of punishment at the house walls.” pasted pages were already more specific, they warned in German: “Die Desertieren werden mit Tod bestraft” (“Deserters will be punished with death” – German).
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