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finally he too was killed in the Strazdumuiža action. As for the rest, the more
or less strong people were taken out of prison and sent in groups to the notorious
Stűtzpunkt or to the front to clear minefields. None returned, for all of
them were killed.
In September 1944 the Aryan prisoners were evacuated to Germany on a
steamship, but the Jews who still remained were killed without exception.
The graves of the numerous dead are located, together with those of the people
murdered in the Kaiserwald concentration camp, next to the wall of the
Christian Matīsa cemetery across from the Central Prison.
The Press in Riga During the German Occupation
Just after the German occupation of Riga, the Latvians published various flyers.
At the same time they decided to publish a permanent daily newspaper in
Latvian called "Tēvija" (Fatherland). It was printed in Blaumaņa Street in the
large and prominent Brīva Zeme printing house, which had been founded by
Dr. Ulmanis. This newpaper was written according to the pattern set by the
old Latvian newspaper "Jaunākās Ziņas" (The Latest News), with the difference
that it was 100% German and National Socialist in its viewpoint. Every
day, "apprentices" of the notorious anti-Semite Julius Streicher – who has now
been hanged in Nuremberg – harangued the public with new tirades against the
Jews. The Editor-in-Chief was Kowalewsky. The Jewish question took up a
great deal of space in this newspaper, and the Talmud was quoted constantly.
All kinds of things were published in the form of pamphlets. One of them announced
that the leaders of the Jewish community, Mordechai Dubin and
Rabbi Nurock, had been arrested and killed by the Russians, which was not
the case.
It was said that in early 1942 Editor-in-Chief Kowalewsky traveled together
with the head of the Propaganda Department Rietums and the Latvian Captain
Krečmanis to see Hitler in order to thank him for liberating Latvia from the
Jews.
Initially only a so-called front newspaper was published by the Germans. It
dealt mainly with military matters, but now and then it also made digs at the
Jews. Then the "Allgemeine deutsche Zeitung im Ostland" (General German
Newspaper in Ostland) was set up. This was a newspaper with a larger format
and it was printed in the printing house of the "Rigasche Rundschau" (Riga
Panorama) in Cathedral Square. Here too, there was no lack of Streicher's
"apprentices", and the Jewish question was discussed intensively. There was