Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant, and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42 (1999) and Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen (with Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as Besatzungspolitik und Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der südlichen Sowjetunion 1941-1943 (2003).

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List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Latvia Caught between Two Dictatorships
Chapter 2. Operation Barbarossa: Preparations for the German Attack on the Soviet Union
Chapter 3. From the Pogroms to the Establishment of the Ghetto
Chapter 4. Securing German Rule in Occupied Riga: The Period of the Large Ghetto for Latvian Jews
Chapter 5. Murder on a Massive Scale: The Murder of the Ghetto's Latvian Jews
Chapter 6. In Search of Territories for the "Final Solution": The Road to Riga as a Final Destination for Deportations
Chapter 7. Plans for the Salaspils Camp
Chapter 8. The Deportation of German Jews to Riga
Chapter 9. The Salaspils Camp: A Detention Center with Many Functions
Chapter 10. German Jews Build Salaspils: December 1941-August 1942

Excursus I: SS Major Rudolf Lange and the Wannsee Conference

Chapter 11. The Latvian Labor Market and the Compulsory Deployment of Jews in Riga
Chapter 12. The Utilization of Jewish Assets and the Issue of Ghetto Administration
Chapter 13. Ghetto Life and Forced Labor in Riga in the Spring of 1942
Chapter 14. The Turning Point: Operation Dünamünde at Jungfernhof and in the "Ghetto for Reich Jews"
Chapter 15. Forced Labor and Annihilation in County Commissariat Riga City
Chapter 16. Failed Resistance: The Tin Square Operation, October 1942
Chapter 17. Annihilation Instead of Forced Labor: Himmler's Struggle against Production Constraints and Armaments Interests in General Commissariat Latvia
Chapter 18. Concentration Camp Kaiserwald and the Barrackings

Excursus II: SS Second Lieutenant Fritz Scherwitz, The Commander at Lenta: A Biographical Sketch

Chapter 19. The Decommissioning of Concentration Camp Kaiserwald, Evacuation, and Liberation
Chapter 20. A New Start and the Search for Justice
Chapter 21. Conclusion

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Index